What is General Chicago’s 6-point lift character report?
The General Chicago’s 6-point lift character report is a comprehensive 6-point report which measures the character of the lift from 6 different areas. The report is broken down into 2 categories with 3 subcategories each: appearance, and run character.
The report assigns a score of 5 stars from data input to each of the questions and then weighs the different categories automatically based on how much each subcategory contributes to the total score. This tool is easy to deploy and requires simple mathematical calculations which are easily doable by mental math, which prove good for YouTube comments that need to be delivered on rapid fire.
How is it designed?
It is designed using five-point scales for each question, with the option of writing descriptions under each category for how the lift appears and runs. Each question has a 6-point scale, but each weighs differently towards the total score. There is also an option to save the report into the database, which can only hold up to 500 responses total.
The appearance section
This category counts towards 10% of the total score. It measures the effectiveness of the appearance of the fixtures, cab, and overall configuration of the lift and lift system and how it contributes to the style and class of the lift.
The fixtures are the buttons, the floor indicator, the directional indicators, and the chimes, as well as the call stations on each floor. These count for 2% of the total score.
The cab is the lighting, the decorations in the cab, and other interesting features, which contributes 5% towards the total score.
This is what the lift filmer can see while filming the lift.
The run character section
This category counts towards 90% of the total score. It measures the effectiveness of the run features, motor, controller and their contributions to how the lift runs. It is here where most lifts that get the label as ‘unimpressive’, ‘crappy’, ‘cheap’, ‘rough’, or anything along the lines of ‘death trap’ live the high life.
The run features are the acceleration, deceleration, noises in the shafts, leveling, and ride experience. This contributes 10% towards the total score.
The motor contributes 20% towards the total score. Different parts include the appearance of the motor, the sound of the motor, the configuration of the motor, the intensity of the motor and other ways the motor contributes to how nice the lift is.
The controller is the most vital part of how the lift runs, so it contributes 60% towards the total score.
Final report
A table is provided in the final report as a guideline for the scores, the descriptions, and the awards. Five fields are provided with the final rating, the description, the award, the appearance description, and the run character description, with an option to continue the report.
The continue option
At the continue option, the report asks the filmer to fill out information regarding the age, brand, speed, model & power of the original and current lift. Then, the report asks the filmer to fill out information about the building to be identifiable in the database if he chooses to save the data in the database
Submit options
There are submit options: Save report, file new report & print report. A report can’t be submitted into the database without filling out extra information about the building & lift. This is so that during a research project, we can have an analysis of which lifts are better than others. This will help us reevaluate America’s top cities to film lifts.
What is the structure?
To get the score, we get a numerical point-based response from six scale questions as follows:
Fixtures
Cab
Configuration
Run Features
Motor
Controller
Each part of the report is weighted differently according to their impact on the score of the lift:
Fixtures: 2%
Cab: 3%
Configuration: 5%
Run Features: 10%
Motor: 20%
Controller: 60%
This is a multi-level structure which consists of 6 levels in the hierarchy below:
What are the requirements for a city to be placed on General Chicago’s List?
The average lift character score between each documented or watched lift in a given city or town must be 3.2 stars or higher, regardless of the score of the least interesting lift. This lift character report is very easy to fill out and it takes just 20 seconds per video or lift to find out the score of the lift. These scores can be recorded in an Excel Spreadsheet for a specific city or town.
Simply put, the higher the rating, the more epic the lift.
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