A plain-English guide to the alphabet soup of North American elevator & escalator industry organizations: what each group actually does, and where they touch a working mechanic.
A note on the "NEIA" mix-up: there is no North American organization actually called NEIA. The names people usually mean are NEII (manufacturers' trade association), NEI/NEIBP (the benefit plans), or NEIEP (the training program). The PDF lays it out.
Two pages. Designed to be printable and pinned to a shop wall.
If anything's missing, out of date, or wrong, call it out in the replies and we'll update the next revision.
Update, September 2026: the current, corrected version of this guide lives on the site: Industry associations and acronyms. The PDF above is the original from May and has a few details we have since corrected.
