Organizer system for a rotatable storage structure

A control system for a storage system, comprising:

• a storage facility controller for controlling operation of the storage system, the storage system including rotary storage carousels each having multiple tiers and container support racks arranged in side-by-side fashion, means forming a continuous track, and means for rotating the support racks about the continuous track, said container support racks including attachment means for releasably securing a container thereto, the container adapted to receive material goods, and extractor and insertor assemblies disposed adjacent a carousel for disengaging a selected container from its associated support rack and for inserting a selected container onto an associated support rack, respectively, while the carousel remains in continuous motion, the storage facility controller including means for maintaining a storage record that records an identity and storage position of each container on a carousel within its control, and means for receiving requests for particular material goods;
• a plurality of carousel controllers that communicate with said storage facility controller over a system local area communications network, wherein each said carousel controller controls the operation of a particular carousel and its associated extractor and inserter assemblies;
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• when an order is received for particular material goods, the storage facility controller determines a location of a container to be delivered and informs an associated carousel controller that the container in a particular storage position is to be extracted and the carousel controller directs removal of the container from the carousel by the extractor assembly.

A control system for a storage system, comprising:

• a storage facility controller for controlling the operation of the storage system, the storage system including a rotary storage carousel having container support racks arranged in side-by-side fashion, means for rotating the support racks, said container support racks including attachment means for releasably securing a container thereto, the container adapted to receive material goods, and an extractor assembly and inserter assembly disposed adjacent the carousel for disengaging a selected container from its associated support rack and for inserting a selected container onto an associated support rack, respectively, while the carousel remains in continuous motion, the storage facility controller including means for maintaining a storage record that records an identity and storage position of each container on the carousel within its control, and means for receiving requests for particular material goods that may be in a container on the carousel;
• a carousel controller for controlling operation of the carousel and the extractor assembly and inserter assembly, said storage facility controller communicating with said carousel controller over a first local area communications network;
• logic boards in electrical communication with the carousel controller over a second local area communications network for controlling the carousel and the extractor assembly and inserter assembly;
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• buffer means for receiving information from said logic boards over said second local area network and for temporarily storing information until the carousel controller requests the information from the buffer means.