NeXt group - Let’s work together! The independent lift industry needs a cooperation to be able to meet the challenges of digitalization in the future. NeXt group is a worldwide development partnership of lift manufacturers, suppliers and other companies from the electronics and software industry. NeXt group e.V. provide an unbiased platform for developments of standardized components and interfaces – for lifts and escalators – and promote the image of standardized interfaces. It is a non-profitable industrial consortium, working for open standards and open source projects in the international lift and escalator business. Not only interfaces needs to be standardized, also hardware and software should and could be.