How to repair the folding leaves of automatic sliding doors for escape routes?

All over the world, automatic doors are used in a wide variety of buildings. The most common are sliding doors, which are found at the entrances of shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, hospitals and other buildings.

In these buildings with many people, it is important to have automatic emergency or panic break-out doors with folding leaves. These not only allow the passage of people and belongings, but also offer the added value of safety in the event of any type of emergency, such as evacuation because of a fire or for any other reason.

Accesses equipped with this folding system maximize the passage area for an evacuation. In an emergency, the leaves are opened up manually rather than using the mechanism. This characteristic means that its maintenance must be very rigorous, since it is something that will help to save lives in case of emergency.

If the door becomes defective, the first step to take is to notify Manusa’s technical service. It is vital that the damage to the door is not repaired by the customer himself, as this could worsen the damage. Manusa technicians will repair and provide spare parts, if necessary, whether the door is Manusa or any other manufacturer.

Repairing the breakdown of an automatic panic break-out sliding door

The breakdowns that can occur in a door with hinged leaves can be linked to various reasons:

  • The glass leaf is damaged by a collision
  • The glass leaf does not swing out completely
  • The door profile is damaged and chafing
  • The automatic bolt is damaged and does not respond
  • Door security devices do not work

Manusa automatic panic sliding doors with movable and fixed leaves are hinged when pushed manually. They fold back on both sides and provide ample space for evacuation in the event of an emergency or an occasional requirement such as the passage of a bulky item such as a vehicle in a car dealership, or a large item of goods. The normal operation of the doors is restored by placing the leaves in their original position.

Do you need to install automatic sliding folding doors in your business or property? Contact us now and we will make a design, manufacture, and installation to measure so that the people who access your building or premises are completely safe in case of any incident.

Advantages of replacing a manual door with an automatic door in our residents’ community

Our home is the place where we spend a large part of our lives and where we enjoy great moments. Home is where we live with our family, watch our children growing up, enjoy time with friends and rest after long working days.

Doors are a common feature of homes and can be found in all houses and residential areas. In the outside area they are essential to prevent, for example, any undesired intrusions. As a rule, most houses built in the 20th century have only manual doors that work with a metal key.

Many architects are planning new homes that integrate innovative automatic doors and other intelligent entrances into the entrance to the residential area. What are the advantages of installing automatic doors at the entrance to a property?

  • Accessibility and mobility: If there is someone in a residential community who is in a wheelchair, walks with crutches or has difficulty moving around, automatic doors are a great help for the traffic because it is not necessary to use your hands to open or close them. This provides full barrier-free access also for people carrying shopping bags or pushing a pram.
  • Energy efficiency: In most blocks of flats with manual doors, it is common for a draught to cause a loud closing of the door after opening a window in the staircase. In addition, the door to the entrance hall can be left open and the heat from the heating or the cold from the air- conditioning system can leak out. In addition, the transparency of the automatic door leaves allows natural light to flood in, which reduces the electricity consumption of the entrance hall lights.
  • Privacy: Automatic doors can be accessed by means of a numerical key or biometric reading. This provides greater security against unwanted intrusions. Fire doors can also be installed in shared areas such as storerooms and stairwells.

The design, manufacture and installation of these elements represent a very profitable cost for the neighbourhood community as it only involves a small effort on the part of each owner. In addition, automatic doors enhance the value of the property by giving it an exclusive and modern look.

Whether you work in an architecture studio or you are an administrator of a community of owners, you can install Manusa automatic doors in the accesses to the house. Contact us now and we will evaluate which is the best intelligent access; we will customise the design according to the needs and the space where it will be installed.

The best automatic doors and access control systems for hotels

New technologies and innovation are becoming more and more important in people's everyday lives and spaces. It is common to see innovative products in a variety of sectors and places, with the aim of offering improvements, making us more comfortable and helping us in our daily lives. Among these innovations are intelligent accesses.

It is very common for customers to find automatic doors both outside and inside hotels. There are a variety of accesses that improve the guests’ stay. Some of them are:

Manusa smart access for hotels has several beneficial features for the guest experience. Their installation provides accessibility, hygiene, and uniqueness in the designs.

In addition, Manusa has a technical assistance service to solve any incident that may occur, both in our own intelligent accesses and in those of other manufacturers. In case an automatic door stops working for any reason, our technical team can quickly travel to the hotel where the incident occurs to solve it as soon as possible, ensuring that the establishment can continue with its normal activity.

Accessories to improve the hotel stay

It is also important to highlight the hands-free systems, by which a door can be opened and closed using a detection sensor, activated by approach, without the need to touch it; the occupancy control system, which helps us to know the number of people in the same space of the hotel at the same time, for example a convention hall; or the access identification system, common in hotels, as it allows us to access restricted areas or areas for private use such as rooms or offices.

Are you the manager of a hotel chain or run a small hotel and want to improve the experience of your customers? Contact us now and we will tell you which are the best automatic doors for your business.

Automatic doors for ophthalmology centers

For decades, automatic doors have been helping everyone in society. The convenience of automatic accesses that open and close so that people can pass through smoothly without having to use their hands is a technological breakthrough that is rarely appreciated.

Healthcare and personal care are among the sectors that benefit the most from the presence of intelligent accesses.

Sight is one of the five senses in which medicine has advanced the most. Operations to improve vision are becoming increasingly socially accepted and more and more people are going to the operating room to undergo cataract surgery or other eye surgery.

Ophthalmology centers with automatic doors at the entrance and interior spaces are a great help to allow the movement of people with vision problems. The removal of architectural barriers is a benefit for society in general and especially for the for the visually impaired.

In addition, many of these centers have operating rooms for eye surgeries, which require the highest standards of hygiene. For this type of space, the best option is to install hermetic automatic doors, which are designed to guarantee high standards of hygiene and maximum watertightness.

The best automatic doors for opticians’ shops

Besides health centers and ophthalmology clinics, it is also a great idea to install automatic doors in opticians’ shops. When we go to a store to buy glasses or to have our eyesight corrected, it’s a good idea not to find obstacles at the entrance to the store, whether it’s a step or a door that we have to push or pull the manual handle.

In all these cases, the most common intelligent accesses are automatic sliding doors, either in their standard or telescopic version. They ensure the smooth passage of employees, medical and nursing staff, and other people.

Do you need to install automatic doors in your vision care center? Contact us now and we will evaluate the best options to design and manufacture an intelligent access that we will install in the building, giving it a modern look and at the forefront of 21st century technology.

Manusa installs automatic platform-closing doors at the Cuca de Llum funicular railway (Barcelona)

Manusa, the leading company in smart accesses and automatic doors, recently launched a project at the Cuca de Llum funicular railway that connects the city of Barcelona with the Tibidabo amusement park. It installed 24 automatic platform-closing doors on four platforms at two stations.

This funicular railway has recently been renovated, eliminating the old carriages, the old tracks and the catenary in favour of a new layout with new carriages.

The design of the carriages is open-plan, innovative and advanced, providing provides more space inside and a panoramic view of the whole journey. The funicular railway is now faster and has increased its capacity to 252 passengers per journey.

The automatic doors installed by Manusa guarantee the safety and comfort of passengers. These accesses are synchronised with the funicular train so that the doors open and close automatically when the vehicle arrives or leaves. This prevents incidents such as people or objects falling onto the tracks, someone being run over, or the stoppage of normal funicular railway operations.

These smart accesses by Manusa have been specifically custom designed for this project. “We started from a standard product and had to adapt it to meet all the safety demands required by transport environments”, explains Manel Cañadas, head of transport at Manusa.

The company has been designing, manufacturing and installing automatic doors and smart accesses worldwide for over 50 years. This extensive experience has enabled them to confidently implement the automation of the platform accesses at the funicular railway in Barcelona.

“On this occasion, we did not have a single, flat platform, so the doors had to be at different levels. We created a modular structure that we repeated at the different levels where people can access the funicular train”, says Rubén Sebastià, from the Manusa R&D department.

Creativity, high technology, adaptability and experience have enabled Manusa to help improve the functionality of this emblematic funicular railway that has been running since the start of the 20th century.

Advantages of installing automatic doors in a rural guest house

The presence of rural guest houses in many places around the world has increased over recent years. These are tourist accommodations located in areas away from the cities, where visitors can spend a few days of rest and relaxation in contact with nature and far from the noise and the hustle and bustle of the major cities.

Many of these rural guest houses have had to be restored. A great many of them are houses that were lived in decades ago, and that were fully or partially abandoned by their inhabitants to go to live in cities with better connections and possibilities of employment.

Now, a significant number of these buildings have been given a second life, with different types of architectural projects to restore them. Many architects offer the possibility of including automatic doors at the entrances to the house and in the indoor areas, which provides great facilities for both the owners and the guests. This gives an avant-garde, high- technology design that is of the utmost comfort for people.

Automatic doors for rural guest houses, guaranteed accessibility

Which are the best smart accesses for a rural guest house? We must highlight automatic sliding doors, whether they are bi-parting, side-opening or telescopic, which can be installed at the entrance to the house. On their arrival, guests will not have to push or pull the handle of a manual door while they are loaded up with luggage. The door will open thanks to a movement or presence sensor. Any guests in a wheelchair will be thankful for this elimination of architectural barriers, and will see this rural guest house as somewhere they will return to in the future.

As well as at the entrance to the building, automatic doors can be installed at the exit to the garden or at the access to the dining area or the lounge. This will divide the different areas of the rural guest house, giving it an appearance and feeling of modernity and comfort that guests will appreciate. All the glass in the leaves of the doors can include a design personalised with the name of the room and the logo of the rural guest house. Furthermore, different accessories can be installed, such as the Optima Prox+ touchless switch, which allows for a door to be opened simply by bringing your hand close to it, without having to touch the switch.

Do you have a rural guest house and want to improve the experience of your guests? Manusa automatic doors guarantee your guests enjoy a better break. Contact us now and our team will help you with the design, manufacturing and installation of smart accesses in your business.

Automatic doors for outdoor recreational facilities

People spend significant amount of their time on recreation. These are moments of entertainment that they share with friends and family, or are enjoyed alone.

This recreational time often takes place outdoors, at amusement parks, zoos or theme parks. These recreational areas host a large number of people, primarily at weekends and during the holidays. This social influx requires order and control at the entrances and exits to avoid crowds and other types of problem affecting times of fun.

Thanks to the Manusa access controls, the transit of people at the entrances and exists of these outdoor recreational facilities is improved. These is a series of systems that help with this task:

Smart accesses increase safety in recreational facilities

These types of smart access improve the safety of the place, as they can be opened quickly in the event of an emergency or if rapid evacuation is required. For example, in the event of an incident, doors with a panic break-out system can be folded back simply by pushing them outwards to lie flat against the sides, to allow a wide evacuation transit area. It is also important to highlight fire-proof doors that, thanks to their reinforced design, are ideal for compartmentalising and protecting certain areas inside a recreational facility in the event of a fire.

Furthermore, it must be remembered that automatic doors favour the accessibility of people in wheelchairs and families with small children in a pushchair.

Manusa is working every day on improving the quality of life of society. Leisure helps improve the physical and mental health of people. Automatic doors and automatic access controls are a help for everyone.

Semi-Critical Cardiology Patient Unit at Bellvitge Hospital, Barcelona

The health sector is working constantly on ensuring the best patient well-being possible. These high levels of optimisation are reached with dozens of minor details that include aspects such as lighting, soundproofing, the layout of the different areas, corridors and floors, or the size of the rooms. Doctors, nurses, orderlies and all types of healthcare professionals involved in ensuring the best care and health of everyone also benefit from this.

Another element that provides this comfort in hospitals are automatic doors. Among others, they facilitate the transit of people and improve the energy efficiency of buildings thanks to better temperature control and avoiding sudden changes in the general thermometer of the property. They also help stall bacteria and viruses, as people do not have to touch the surface and, because they close automatically, they prevent a room or ward from being opened by mistake, which would cause unwanted air circulation.

puertas automaticas hospital Bellvitge Barcelona

In its commitment to improve the living conditions in healthcare buildings, Manusa has installed 19 automatic doors in the new Semi-critical Patient Unit at Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona. Fifteen of these as an entrance to fifteen cubicles used to care for people requiring isolation or emergency care, and another four as ward access doors in this new hospital unit.

Manusa, the greatest ally of the health sector

The installation was conducted together with the construction company Grupo Cime. All the Manusa doors incorporate IoT technology, which provides connectivity control and remote control of the doors. Thanks to this new technology, access can be managed remotely if required.

puertas automaticas de hospital automatic doors

The new Semi-Critical Cardiology Patient Unit includes the most modern equipment and materials. Furthermore, its architecture has been adapted to the requirements of the HU-CI project for the humanisation of health areas. These are much larger and brighter, and look out onto the street. The rooms used as offices, workrooms and changing rooms have been improved to benefit both personnel and patients and their relatives.

For the good of society, the health sector must remain at the forefront of all types of technology, including not only medical but also that corresponding to access automation. As such, health centres have an ally in Manusa.

What to do if an automatic door closes by itself and for no reason?

Intelligent accesses have become an essential element for thousands of buildings around the world. Properties with automatic doors and access controls installed can be found across the globe.

These entrance and exit systems improve the life of people and help care for the environment, as they favour the energy efficiency of buildings in both summer and winter.

However, like any tech product, automatic doors can suffer incidents or faults due to their prolonged use or to an external element that has damaged them. In this article, we refer specifically to when an automatic door closes by mistake, when it shouldn’t close.

What might be the cause? The main reason is normally a fault in the motion sensor. Generally, the drive unit of the automatic doors is activated and the leaves open when the motion sensor or presence sensor detects someone at a certain distance. A few seconds after the person leaves the area in which the sensor detected them, the drive unit is activated again to move the leaves back together and close the doors. However, someone might remain standing in the safety area (clear width) while the door is still open, and it might then close. This is due to a sensor fault and must be immediately inspected by the technical service.

Solutions for Faults in Automatic Doors

What to do if the doors do not respond to the established lock and close by themselves? First contact the Manusa technical service for a quick answer to the incident. If the problem cannot be solved remotely, wait for a professional technician to arrive.

Under no circumstances should an unauthorised person handle the doors, as they could permanently damage them. Manusa automatic doors are guaranteed for over one million opening and closure cycles, and offer the best results in the market.

If you need to install intelligent accesses in your shop or business, contact us now and we will design and manufacture your customised automatic doors. We will also provide support in the after-sales process to solve any future problems.

The Best Automatic Access Systems for Sports Centres

Sport forms part of daily life for millions of people worldwide. Most small and medium-sized cities have at least one sports centre, which is visited by people of all ages and fitness in order to improve their health, their physical appearance or to have some fun with friends.

The presence of sports centres is multiplied exponentially in large cities. The existence of properties and buildings housing gyms, indoor pools, sports halls and sports stadiums, or clubs to practice and play sports such as padel tennis or tennis, is increasingly commonplace.

Access control systems can often be found in many gyms, such as speed gates, concealable- panel corridors, turnstiles or motorised swing panels, which guarantee access for sports centre users and personnel. Users must swipe a proximity card or RFID bracelet over these devices for convenient access with no need for contact.

In most cases, we visit the gym or sports centre carrying a bag or rucksack with our clothes or with the material we need to play the sport, such as a racket or a ball. Thanks to automatic doors, we will no longer have to use our hands to enter or exit the building, which is extremely convenient for customers and users.

Advantages and Benefits of Automatic Doors and Intelligent Accesses in Sports Areas

Intelligent accesses are also an advantage for the owners and administrators of the buildings where sports are played. Automatic doors improve the energy efficiency of the property, as they prevent sudden changes in temperature. They are also beneficial to employees during the working day and for those spending a few hours a week there, as not having to touch the doors with your hands reduces the possibility of transmitting viruses or bacteria.

Computerised access controls that are activated by a user card or RFID bracelet also provide the sports centre with information on the influx of people into the building, avoiding unwanted intruders and controlling whether the person entering has paid the corresponding fee.

Many architects already include automatic doors and access controls as an essential part of their projects for sports facilities. Contact us now and we will inform you of the variety of Manusa intelligent accesses for sports centres.