Routing station

About concrete 3D geometry

This is very crudely visualized in the concept visualization video
Productive Nanosystems From molecules to superproducts
(wiki-TODO: add screencap of routing system)

An actual implementation should be designed to take up a lot less volume.
(wiki-TODO: add existing idea sketches regarding the routing subsystem)

Abstract design considerations

Factored out from the routing station can be things like:

• switch of attachment chain type
• chain speed transition

Redundancy

In order for one locked pathway through the routing station to not stop the whole system redundancy needs to be built in.

This is covered in Nanosystems Fig 14.7
(in chapter 14.3.3. Redundancy, reliability, and system lifetimes)

• fail-stop producer
• fail-stop consumer

See: Redundancy

Related

• Productive Nanosystems From molecules to superproducts
• Subsystems of gem-gum factories
• Block diagram of a gem-gum on-chip factory
• Design of gem-gum on-chip factories