Yale Digital Door Lock at Dogan (and the history of Yale Digital Lock)

Yale Digital Door Lock – Installed at Jalan Dogan (same model with Park Residences & Vivacity)

The Story of Yale Digital Door lock

We first supported Yale Digital Door Lock around 10 years back. Yale are good at standard mechanical lock, but digital wise, they have no expertise or experience at all. So how did they get to produce some digital lock?

It started in the year 2000.

You might think Yale is a huge lock company. However there is a much bigger lock company, ASSA ABLOY. In 30 August 2010, ASSA ABLOY officially bought over Yale.

“Assa Abloy Press Release 30 Aug 2000“

Thereafter, ASSA ABLOY owns Yale, and free to set any direction for Yale, be it an upgrade or downgrade. Bear in mind that ASSA/ ABLOY belongs to the category of Ultra high security lock, while Yale is only Medium security.

But Yale did not start producing digital lock straight away. Assa Abloy do have the expertise in digital lock, but also belongs to high end product or technology. It does not fit into Yale’s image as a medium range lock.

In Sept 2007, Assa Abloy acquired another lock company, this time is a digital lock company Irevo of South Korea (Owner of Gateman Brand & factory).

“Assa Abloy Press Release 11 Sept 2007“

This is the start of Yale Digital Lock. The technology of Gateman is modified from Korean 70mm Integral Mortise into EN 6085mm  Mortise. As Irevo factory does not have the machine for En standard mortise, production is shifted to another factory in China. At later stage when new models are designed, production is re-shifted to Irevo, but the South Korea factory is to stamp that product with Yale.

So the truth is Yale Digital Lock is modified and made in either China or by Irevo, South Korea. Just find out the similarity  below:

If you’re our past client that bought the first batch of Yale Digital Lock, now you understand why initially Yale Digital Lock has so many problem. We think they are forcefully modified from Gateman body to fit into EN spec. On average, 8 out of 10 Yale Digital Lock has defect at that time. Only recently they have stabilised and no longer had such a high defect rate.

These are not locksmith knowledges, but it’s fun to know the origin of a famous brand, don’t you think so?

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