The Slow Elevator Problem. Speed too fastslow Wiper damaged or missing Throat position too high Buckets un-vented Obstruction in Throat High moistureSticky Material Air Pressure in Leg. However this can be incredibly expensive time-consuming and difficult to perform because it involves many different factors.
So the potential solution could be to install a new elevator or upgrade the elevator. He was sharing the curious story of the elevator problem. So they went off to design elevators that were faster and safer but at the time it was very expensive to do so.
A classic story illustrates very well the potential cost of placing a problem in a disciplinary box.
If the elevator cable broke you would feel weightless since both you and the elevator would be accelerating downward at the same rate. This is an application of Newtons second law to the forces felt in an elevator. Its not always so clean and easy though. A lot of tenants in the office building were complaining about the elevator.