Diseño de un sistema de almacenamiento y transporte automatizado en una lavandería industrial
- Aida Prado Pereiro
- José Manuel Mesa Fernández
- Francisco Javier de Cos Juez
- F. Brugos González
Publisher: edUPV, Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València ; Universitat Politècnica de València
ISBN: 84-9705-987-5
Year of publication: 2006
Pages: 898-906
Congress: CIDIP. Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Proyectos (10. 2006. Valencia)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This article describes the alternatives studied to solve the transport and storage problems of an industrial laundry from a hospital. Currently dirty clothes arrive from the hospital to the facilities of this laundry by means of a pneumatic system. Clothes, without classifying and within bags, are piled up in the ground, under the exit of the pneumatic pipe. This system generates, in addition to possible health problems, the requirement to carrying by some way all that volume of clothes to the selection zone, previous to the washing. The problems are bigger at no workable days, as Sunday, when bags are pile up until next Monday. At the moment the transport is made loading manually bags in small carts and carrying them to be unloaded in the selection zone. The purpose is to find a solution to manage those bags automatically. In addition, storage area must be maximized because space shortage. Alternatives were analyzed from different points of view as investment, available suppliers or maintenance costs, etc.