Jason Thistlethwaite
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62 lines
2.4 KiB
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This article serves as a visual guide to storage and labeling methods that tend to cause problems. Most of these things are impossible to completely avoid, but they should be avoided when it's possible and fixed when we see them.
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## Why this stuff matters
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A lot of this is about safety and loss prevention. The red-coded things in here represent some kind of safety or loss prevention issue. The yellow-coded stuff represents practices that are okay under limited circumstances only, or where there is only a minor problem.
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The second part of it has to do with pick speed. We need to be able to locate an item in the shortest time possible.
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### Item stacking
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Stacking items can be a problem.
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![[good stacking.jpg]]
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This is good. Very few things are stacked. That means picking any of those things doesn't require moving much stuff and the chance of anything falling or getting dropped is pretty low.
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![[acceptable stacking.jpg]]
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This is mostly fine, except that some of the items are kind of log-jammed together. They could fall over or get knocked behind other things if someone's in a hurry.
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### Bad stacking examples
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![[moar stacking.jpg]]
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This example has two major problems. Scanning everything would take too long, and getting anything off the bottom half of the stack would risk things falling over or getting dropped.
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![[stacking advanced.jpg]]
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Again, we're looking at avalanche of things falling or getting dropped.
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![[stacking avalanche.jpg]]
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![[stacking racking bad.jpg]]
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![[terrible stacking.jpg]]
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### 99 problems and they're all bins
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![[good binning 2.jpg]]
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![[good binning 3.jpg]]
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![[good binning.jpg]]
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Notice how in the above examples the bin is fully occupied, the items have a general theme in size/shape, and all the barcodes are visible.
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![[terrible binning.jpg]]
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![[terrible binning 3.jpg]]
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![[terrible binning 2 with baby.jpg]]
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![[stacking in bins.jpg]]
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![[small or bagged mailpieces should be binned.jpg]]
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![[mixed bin problem.jpg]]
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### Very special cases
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![[mixed depth usage.jpg]]
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This is head injury waiting to happen. Most people enjoy having their head pelted by a torrential downpour of defective hard drives. The grean area is making a good use of space though.
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![[headache cart.jpg]]
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![[iranian satan.jpg]]
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![[extra red cart.jpg]]
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## Labeling issues
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![[item number defeated.jpg]]
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![[this should be a bin.jpg]]
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![[this should be a bin 2.jpg]]
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![[stacking the saga continues.jpg]]
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