Freight-Handling Technologies and Industrial Building Design: Freighthouse and Warehouse Facilities of the Chicago Junction Railway, 1900–30

Allison, Tim

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“…CUADERNO DE NOTAS 17 -2016 LINAJES FÉRREOS ALBERT KAHN ARTÍCULOS 88 Figura 14. Union freighthouseA y B de la Chicago Junction Railway. (Allison 2014) La verticalización del espacio debida a esta necesidad funcional se puede ver claramente en dos freighthouses construidas en 1917 y 1918, inmediatamente antes y después que Highland Park New Shop: la Union freighthouse A y B de la Chicago Junction Railway y el Edificio B de la Navy Yard de Brooklyn. En el primer caso (figura 14), los espacios verticales se disponían en perpendicular a la circulación de los trenes en planta baja.…”

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Linajes férreos: uso tipológico de precedentes ferroviarios en Albert Kahn

Pancorbo¹,

Robles²

2016

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Los edificios industriales de la primera época de Kahn iniciaron un proceso sinérgico con los procesos de montaje, dependiendo cada vez más de la producción en cadena fordista, la cual puede homologarse, en su motricidad lineal, a la de un tren. Así, se llega a mostrar que las numerosas naves de montaje de vehículos para Ford o Packard son edificios de producción industrial y a la vez terminales de carga y descarga ferroviaria. Existió por tanto un interesante trasvase de elementos tipológicos de las construcciones ferroviarias a la arquitectura industrial de Kahn, lo cual se analiza a través de ejemplos característicos como las terminales, las freighthouses, las trainsheds, los depots o las enginehouses. El otro gran tipo constructivo de claro linaje ferroviario fueron los puentes metálicos norteamericanos, que a su vez fueron asimilados en las grandes estructuras de naves y hangares. Con ellos se aportaron soluciones a problemas de luces hasta entonces desconocidas, sugiriéndose un papel destacado, tanto aquí como en otros casos, en el empleo de voladizos.

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Linajes férreos: uso tipológico de precedentes ferroviarios en Albert Kahn

Pancorbo¹,

Robles²

2016

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Automation in cargo loading/unloading processes: do unmanned loading technologies bring benefits when both purchase and operational cost are considered?

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The use of technologies that automate handling goods and loading units in warehouses and depots is not new. Yet, the purchase process of these technologies issues troubles and the estimation of the economic advantages brought by one or another technology to the entire chain of operations in logistics are not always known. Faults or not documented decisions put pressure on managers and prices for services. They can cause a drop in the competitiveness of warehouse operators, particularly in uncertain conditions. Academia documented the cost of warehouse storage well. Yet, little research has looked into the economic justification of implementing automatic systems for loading or unloading activities and the impact on complementary operations. For this reason, a model is needed to calculate the cost of operations when different technical equipment is used. This research further investigates the cost categories that must be considered when purchasing automated loading/unloading technologies. The model includes the purchase and operational loading costs that new technologies generate and the cost of adjacent operations to loading activity. The case study uses forklifts as the reference scenario and provides an overview of the return on investment and a break-even period when other technologies are in use. The calculation model shows that increasing cargo volume leads to a better RoI. The same observation is also made regarding the rise in labour costs. For the latter, using human operators to handle pallets on a one-by-one basis generates an exponential increase in operational cost due to delays and faults. On the other side, the cost of implementing automated loading/unloading technologies and the consideration of technology risk determine the low economic advantages. An in-depth cost and benefit analysis shows in which situation a technology generates greater benefits. Further results of this paper show that better use of trucks' loading capacity can positively impact the financial performance of automated loading technologies, as a higher volume of cargo is moved (at once) without human intervention.

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Design of Vehicle-mounted Loading and Unloading Equipment and Autonomous Control Method using Deep Learning Object Detection

Lee,

Kim,

Woo

et al. 2024

J. Korea Robot. Soc.

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This paper describes a vision system to detect the 3D position of pallets for autonomous forklift vehicles. An accurated image segmentation method based on colour and geometric characteristics of the pallet is proposed. Moreover, the application computes the 3D position and orientation of the pallet and generates the vehicle trajectory to fork it. The system has been tested and experimental results are shown.

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Freight-Handling Technologies and Industrial Building Design: Freighthouse and Warehouse Facilities of the Chicago Junction Railway, 1900–30

Cited by 3 publications

References 3 publications

Linajes férreos: uso tipológico de precedentes ferroviarios en Albert Kahn

Linajes férreos: uso tipológico de precedentes ferroviarios en Albert Kahn

Automation in cargo loading/unloading processes: do unmanned loading technologies bring benefits when both purchase and operational cost are considered?

Design of Vehicle-mounted Loading and Unloading Equipment and Autonomous Control Method using Deep Learning Object Detection

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