ABC Storages

1. Summary

No storage is the best storage system. The goal of ABC Storage is remove all kinds of storages. For example, The refrigerator keeps food fresh for a period of time. But, time is money. It's not a metaphor, but reality. Time means expense. No inventory is ideal to all kinds of businesses as inventory means money. In terms of the profitability, the restaurant is best not to have a refrigerator. So, again, the goal of ABC Storage is to eliminate the necessity of storages at all. That's what JIT(Just In Time) aims for.

It's best not to have any storage facilities, but we need a facility to be prepared for emergencies. For example, it is best to bring fish caught on a boat to restaurant tables in the shortest time without going through storage facilities. However, an ABC city should have some storages to keep fish fresh since there can be any disturbance in fish supply chain.

A city or nation is like a human body, which operates continuously and each part of which has a peculiar role or function. For example, The stomach has a different function than the liver. But, all organs in the body have one thing in common. It is receiving something from another organization, and also giving something to another organization. It has to be stored somewhere for a long and short period of time.

Needless to say, the storage mechanism of a society has a significant impact on the society's productivity or GDP. Nothing is more important than the storage system or JIT of a city.

One of the most important things in running a city or country is deciding what to store where, how, when and how much.

Large and small storages are linux machines which manage and control the putting in and taking out inventories.

• Every product has a barcode, and an webpage

• A barcode reader attached at the door of a storage keeps track of every inventory movements such as the time of putting in or taking out, by whom, by what purpose, to where etc.

• The decision of putting in and taking out an inventory is mostly made by ABC, not by humans.

• Some storages are operating without ABC. For example, you may put a coke into a mini refrigerator in your office, and take it out to drink without the monitoring of ABC.

• Some inventories are put into boxes before entering in a storage or warehouse. Those boxes may be limited self-driving vehicles.

2. Storage Types

Some examples are below, and other kinds of storages also operate similarly.

1. Parking Towers.

ABC cars and vehicles are for public, and also are parking towers. ABC records the time and the purpose etc. for putting in and taking out of each vehicle. For example, if Alice calls a car to her home to go shopping, ABC determines which car will go to Alice's home and record who have used the car, Alice and other passengers if any.

• All cars are self-driving and quite much light-weight compared to current cars. So, parking towers also are different.

• A parking tower is a linux machine to clean and charge vehicles.

• As cars of the same type are stored in a parking tower, the inner mechanical structure also is different from that of ordinary parking lots.

• Basically, last in first out consumes less energy when using a rotary parking system.

Bicycles and e-scooters are also for public. Though their storage system is different from that of cars, the basic mechanism is all the same.

• Similar to those of cars, the same kind of vehicles share the same type of parking towers.

2. Food Storages

They are linux machines too. A difference from parking towers is that they records the temperature of storage and the shelf life of each item.

• Foods of the same kind are stored in the same type of storages. For example, cabbages are stored in one facility, and cabbage and radishes in another.

• All foods are in boxes when stored, and the boxes also are linux machines which record what kinds of foods are in the boxes, when, by whom, for what, until when etc.

Storages may be automated or food boxes themselves are self-driving one.

Self-driving food boxes

If food boxes drive autonomously, the space can be utilized quite efficiently. Imagine a storage where thousands of boxes are stored each of which drives autonomously.

• Autonomous driving in a limited space such as a warehouse is technically easier to implement than designing robotic arms.

• The mechanism of library shelving storage is applied to food storages too. The only difference is food boxes rather than books.

• A simple elevator system is sufficient for food boxes to travel vertically.

• Each box is a linux machine which manages the contents of it.

Okay, let's code it.

3. Medicines & Other Stuffs

Autonomous driving can be applied to various sizes from a match box to a ship container.