NWC SAF GEO Precipitation Products: Present Status and Future Developments

Presentación al congreso NWCSAF 2015 Users Workshop, 24-26 February 201

Eco‐Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain Towards Digital Transition

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a circular business model based on an Eco-Holonic Architecture, through the integration of circular economy and holonic principles. A conceptual model is developed to manage the complexity of integrating circular economy principles, digital transformation, and tools and frameworks for sustainability into business models. The proposed architecture is multilevel and multiscale in order to achieve the instantiation of the sustainable value chain in any territory. The architecture promotes the incorporation of circular economy and holonic principles into new circular business models. This integrated perspective of business model can support the design and upgrade of the manufacturing companies in their respective industrial sectors. The conceptual model proposed is based on activity theory that considers the interactions between technical and social systems and allows the mitigation of the metabolic rift that exists between natural and social metabolism. This study contributes to the existing literature on circular economy, circular business models and activity theory by considering holonic paradigm concerns, which have not been explored yet. This research also offers a unique holonic architecture of circular business model by considering different levels, relationships, dynamism and contextualization (territory) aspects

Standardization Framework for Sustainability from Circular Economy 4.0

The circular economy (CE) is widely known as a way to implement and achieve sustainability, mainly due to its contribution towards the separation of biological and technical nutrients under cyclic industrial metabolism. The incorporation of the principles of the CE in the links of the value chain of the various sectors of the economy strives to ensure circularity, safety, and efficiency. The framework proposed is aligned with the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development regarding the orientation towards the mitigation and regeneration of the metabolic rift by considering a double perspective. Firstly, it strives to conceptualize the CE as a paradigm of sustainability. Its principles are established, and its techniques and tools are organized into two frameworks oriented towards causes (cradle to cradle) and effects (life cycle assessment), and these are structured under the three pillars of sustainability, for their projection within the proposed framework. Secondly, a framework is established to facilitate the implementation of the CE with the use of standards, which constitute the requirements, tools, and indicators to control each life cycle phase, and of key enabling technologies (KETs) that add circular value 4.0 to the socio-ecological transition

Enactive manufacturing through cyber-physical systems: a step beyond cognitive manufacturing

Cognitive manufacturing, as a paradigm for providing intelligence to manufacturing systems and enabling interaction with operators presents limitations. Manufacturing system requires to be adaptive to machine tools, manufacturing environments and operators. In this line, the enactive approach to cognitive science provides a paradigm for the design of new biologically inspired cognitive architectures. Likewise, the advantages of Key Enabling Technologies and the concept of Industry 4.0 reveal new opportunities for increasing industrial innovation and developing sustainable industrial environments. These technologies are appropriated to overcome the limitations of cognitive manufacturing, because they can achieve the integration of physical and digital systems focused on cyber-physical systems. In this work, an architecture for the sustainable development of enactive manufacturing systems based on holonic paradigm is proposed and its main associated informational model is described

Metabolism in eco-holonic manufacturing systems based on the living systems theory

The industrial metabolism has been conceived on the basis of analogies about the set of biochemical reactions (anabolism and catabolism) that occur in a living being and their flows of matter, energy and substances in natural ecosystems. This conception determines forms of appropriation and consumption of substances, materials and energy, from the natural environment (natursphere) and the technical environment (technosphere) for their transformation and subsequent elimination, under the articulation of criteria of cyclicity, toxicity and efficiency. The last aim of Industrial Ecology (IE), is materialized when the variety of industrial ecosystems is eco-compatible with the variety of natural ecosystems. The naturalisation of manufacturing systems is an effort to conceive them with variety similar to natural systems in order to achieve their eco-compatibility. In addition to bionic models from natural ecosystems in the field of industrial metabolism, several attempts have been made to design technical systems using bionic models from the Living Systems Theory (LST). The formulation of manufacturing systems based on living systems can be considered as a set of dynamic systems from Bertalanffy's perspective. In this paper is postulated an Eco-Holonic Reference Architecture for its projection in the design of manufacturing systems metabolism with an adaptive, self-regulating and required variety structure and with a potential toolbox in the core knowledge of the holon throughout its life cycl

Altas acumulaciones de precipitación en la península ibérica relacionadas con la borrasca Emma

Ponencia presentada en: VI Simposio Nacional de Predicción, celebrado en los servicios centrales de AEMET, en Madrid, del 17 al 19 de septiembre de 2018.A finales de febrero una borrasca atlántica profunda, nombrada como Emma, desplaza una masa de aire subtropical húmeda y cálida que penetra por el suroeste de la Península y que interacciona con otra masa de aire polar continental fría y seca, procedente del norte de Europa, entrando esta por el noreste dirigida por un anticiclón situado en latitudes altas. La frontera entre ambas masas de aire se encuentra a primeras horas del día 28 sobre el cuadrante noreste y dicha interacción provoca nevadas en amplias zonas de la mitad norte peninsular. En días posteriores se produce una activación de otras bajas atlánticas por el forzamiento que produce el desplazamiento hacia el sur de un embolsamiento de aire frío en niveles medios. Como consecuencia, una sucesión de frentes deja entre los días 26 de febrero y 5 de marzo altas acumulaciones de precipitación en amplias zonas de la Península, algunas de ellas en forma de nieve, llegando a superar los 200 litros acumulados en todo el periodo en algunos puntos

Smart and connected Supply Chain

Con la llegada del internet de las cosas (IoT) y el internet industrial de las cosas (IIoT) la conectividad de todos los elementos de la cadena de suministro es una realidad que brinda la posibilidad de rastrear cualquier elemento de la misma. Para aprovechar la información que se genera de una cadena de suministro continuamente conectada y en funcionamiento, se empiezan a emplear los denominados gemelos digitales, una réplica virtual de dicha cadena incluyendo los activos físicos, los procesos y los sistemas. A medida que cambian las condiciones reales que afectan a la cadena de suministro, estas son registradas en el modelo virtual (gemelo digital) en tiempo real lo que permite una simulación instantánea del entorno y genera la oportunidad de tomar decisiones mejores, más optimizadas y en menor tiempo, hecho que supone una ventaja competitiva y una mejora en el desempeño. En este trabajo se va a establecer una revisión de los principales conceptos en torno a la cadena de suministro desde la perspectiva de la digitalización.With the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the connectivity of all the elements along the supply chain is a reality that offers the possibility of tracking any element that integrates it. To use the information that is obtained from a supply chain that is always connected and working, “digital twins” (a virtual clone of its physical elements, processes and systems) are used. As soon as real conditions change, those changes are made also along the virtual world (digital twin) in real time and that allows an instantaneous simulation of the environment and generates the opportunity to take better, more optimized and faster decisions. All that is translated into a competitive advantage and an improvement in performance. This paper will establish a review of the main concepts around the supply chain from the perspective of digitalization. A review of the main concepts related to supply chain will be done in this paper using the digitalization perspective

New palynological data in Muschelkalk facies of the Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE of the Iberian Peninsula)

The Middle Triassic (Ladinian) deposits of the Catalan Basin (Spain) are essentially represented by extensive marine carbonate platforms developed in a rift tectonic setting. During the Ladinian, a regional sea-level drop led to a significant paleogeographic reorganisation of the depocentres of eastern Iberia producing a relevant shift in the distribution of the sedimentary environments. To better calibrate the age of the correlative conformity and the associated depositional facies, a new palynological study was carried out in two localities in Tarragona province (Spain). The palynological assemblages suggest a Longobardian–Cordevolian age (Middle–Late Triassic transition) for the materials deposited below and above the correlative conformity. This study allows a refined biostratigraphic and sedimentary correlation between the carbonate sediments in the Catalan Basin and those in the Iberian Ranges and adjacent basins of the Tethys region

New palynological data in Muschelkalk facies of the Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE of the Iberian Peninsula)

The Middle Triassic (Ladinian) deposits of the Catalan Basin (Spain) are essentially represented by extensive marine carbonate platforms developed in a rift tectonic setting. During the Ladinian, a regional sea-level drop led to a significant paleogeographic reorganisation of the depocentres of eastern Iberia producing a relevant shift in the distribution of the sedimentary environments. To better calibrate the age of the correlative conformity and the associated depositional facies, a new palynological study was carried out in two localities in Tarragona province (Spain). The palynological assemblages suggest a Longobardian–Cordevolian age (Middle–Late Triassic transition) for the materials deposited below and above the correlative conformity. This study allows a refined biostratigraphic and sedimentary correlation between the carbonate sediments in the Catalan Basin and those in the Iberian Ranges and adjacent basins of the Tethys region

The image-matter as a registry of the happening wax transfer research process for the arts

[EN] Finally, digital image inhabits the physical space of matter in what we call the registry of the happening, through procedural and conceptual development of a proven method of transfer over wax. After this practice, where the matrix is intangible, it reflects on contemporary image¿s condition. It is through the creation itself which infinity of data, from digitized images of photographs, are reconstructed and reinterpreted in an analog/digital transformation process. Transfer links the scanned image to a support (wax), bringing new meaning to the artwork.[ES] La imagen digital, finalmente, habita el espacio físico de la materia en lo que llamamos el registro del acontecimiento, mediante el desarrollo procesual y conceptual de una metodología comprobada e inédita de transferencia sobre cera. Tras esta práctica, en donde la matriz es intangible, se reflexiona en torno a la condición de la imagen contemporánea, a través de la propia creación en la que infinidad de datos, que parten de imágenes digitalizadas de fotografías, se reconstruyen y reinterpretan en un proceso de transformación analógico/digital. La transferencia vincula la imagen digitalizada a un soporte, en este caso cera, aportando un nuevo significado a la obra.Ávila González, M.; Tortosa-Cuesta, R.; Ruiz Martín, JM. (2019). La imagen-materia como registro del acontecimiento proceso de transferencia sobre cera para las artes. Arte y sociedad. Revista de investigación. (17):223-240. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.76571602232401