This paper is a description of an automated overhead warehouse system, developed to store car seat covers and to feed them to the Renault car assembly plant at Palencia (Spain). It is based on trolleys moved through monorails and stored in accumulation bars (or monorails) by gravity, having to fulfil space and shape constraints, low retrieval time requirements, etc. This paper presents the decision process and the solutions adopted in this project to overcome the constraints and to fulfil the specifications. Also, a simulation tool integrated in an object-oriented designing framework is presented. It has been developed to support the decision-making process, especially at the very beginning of the project.
<p>Desde inicios del siglo XX, el espacio arquitectónico es básicamente espacio motor, y la circulación pasa de ser un espacio difuso organizado en el interior de las habitaciones a imponer en estas su propia lógica. Este proceso de ampliación del campo motor se inscribe en lo que llamo “régimen circulatorio”, que a diferencia del antiguo régimen kinético basado en un mecanismo por filtración, organiza los recorridos mediante dos mecanismos básicos: canalización e inducción. El escrito expone algunos conceptos derivados del espacio arquitectónico en tanto soporte de los cuerpos en movimiento, para así desmontar una de las pocas certezas que nutren el saber arquitectónico de estos últimos cien años: la de la (aparente) asociación virtuosa entre libertad y fluidez.</p>
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