PAS

LKLND3380

Well-Known Member
It would be great to see color-coded PAS labels in addition to the information already printed on the labels. Remember how quick you could spot an air package that had a highlight sticker on it? If all the labels on your truck should be red, it would be quite easy to spot one that was green or blue. The way the system is set up now, the preloader has to wait until they actually read the printed numbers on the label; and if they walk the box into the wrong vehicle, it gets loaded anyway. Colored labels would speed up the loaders and help cut down on the misloads.

That would never work and possibly make things worse...

1. Color laser printers would be a BIG cost...
Yes you can get ink jet but how many wet packages come down? Leaked on? Omaha Steaks? The ink would run and smear...

2. How many colors? Color MAY work for general sort puposes as to what belt but not for loading package cars.

Lets say you have three belts and each belt havs 50 trucks. That would be 150 different colors... NOW the BRILLIANT management team may say only 50 colors between the three belts. That could work UNTIL you have mis-sorted packages going down the wrong belt. Then that will add to misloaded packages...

Color calibration is another issue that blue may look sky blue or auqua or even blue green and add confusion... What if someone is color blind or their eye sight is not 100%?

The way it is now the preloader reads the label 1C then reads the sequence 7308 and loads it... Even with colors the preloader would have to read after seeing the color to confirm car and sequence number...

What about a bad slap/mis labeled package?
 
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