An article-to-human warehouse including multi-level racking, removable storage units, storage unit carriers and pick-place vehicles

摘要

The article-to-person warehouse system includes a multi-level racking system, a plurality of removable storage units, a storage unit shipper, a pick-place vehicle, a removable storage unit transfer node, and a warehouse management computing hub. A multi-level racking system includes a vertical and horizontal array of storage bays. One or more removable storage units are located in each of the storage bays of the multi-level racking system. The pick-place vehicle is configured to allow the pick-place vehicle to transfer a removable storage unit between a plurality of different vertically displaced stock storage bays of the multi-level racking system and a removable storage unit transfer node of the article-to-human warehouse system It includes pick-place hardware. The storage unit transporter includes storage unit combining hardware that enables the storage unit transporter to transport the removable storage unit to or from a removable storage unit transfer node of the article-to-person warehouse system.