In some manufacturing facilities, you may see gigantic storage cabinets that look like this:


That's the Hänel Rotomat, by German office equipment company Hänel Bu¨rosysteme. They developed the design in 1957, inspired by the Ferris Wheel.
The company reckons their system has three major benefits:
Hänel Rotomat® storage lift utilizes the available room heights and, thanks to its compact design, creates space savings of up to 85 % in relation to the footprint.
The Hänel Rotomat® storage carousel brings the required parts to the retrieval area in just a few seconds.
No more bending, ladder-climbing or walking long distances to search for and store parts or articles. The required items are brought automatically to the optimum ergonomic retrieval height.
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We have this in our assembly factory and it's fascinating.
It's a Parts Paternoster! Related Core77 posts: https://www.core77.com/posts/131800/Space-Efficient-Paternoster-like-Bike-Storage-Lockers and https://www.core77.com/posts/27973/Elevator-Lines-in-the-Future-Will-Look-Less-Like-Shafts-and-More-Like-Pac-Man