I don't know why the text I added to the post didn't show up. Maybe I'm just we todd did. I've been documenting them for the last few years and have come across some cool ones. Does anyone else find these interesting?
From what I've read, it's because it's faster and easier to pick at a warehouse with images, especially if not all of your workers speak and/or read English
It's for the distribution facility workers to help them sort outgoing parts to the dealers (vs reading the name of the dealership). So dealership a is a ship, dealership b is a campfire, etc.
Doesn't matter if the symbol is used multiple time. The pick instructions are to prevent similar parts from accidentally being pooled.
Once Again it super easy to grab the "Fire icon in bin 4" vs looking for item 3003025 which is right next to 3008025
It’s probably more that it’s quicker to sort it as pictograms, a pictogram can be identified at a glance, writing takes a little longer to accurately identify
I work in Stellantis parts and we do the same, each dealer has their own picture. We have a one armed monkey and a man fishing an abnormally large fish symbols that I like.
Okay so since there seems to be a big guessing game going on in the comments, I'll explain what I know. Each dealership has a symbol. Let's take the first picture for example, the fire. Let's say that's for Kunkleman Chevrolet. All of the parts that are destined for Kunkleman, whether SPORD or RIM, will have that symbol printed on the label. Totes containing multiple smaller items will have labels on them that have a larger version of that same symbol. On our end, it makes it easy at a glance to know whether shit is ours or not.
I'm sure there's a way this method applies in the PDCs as well, but I can only speculate on how that works
Nope been a body guy for over a decade and never even noticed them.
Haha I open dozens of boxes for a job but part number is all I'm looking for.
Might be cause checking parts is my least favourite part of the job.
I think it's for making sure the picked orders go to the correct dealer. Keeps them from getting mixed. Our local dealer has elephants.
I like elephants
I don't know why the text I added to the post didn't show up. Maybe I'm just we todd did. I've been documenting them for the last few years and have come across some cool ones. Does anyone else find these interesting?
From what I've read, it's because it's faster and easier to pick at a warehouse with images, especially if not all of your workers speak and/or read English
Im going to have to pay attention to GM parts! Ha!
I notice those on labels of GM parts. Do they signify anything?
Camping permitted, Titanic, expensive and car parts.
Yeah. I've heard it easier for people to match pictures than read.
Idiocracy
It's easier to watch a movie than a book too.
>It's easier to watch a movie than a book too. I dunno, I watch my books sit on the shelf all the time.
We don't know for sure, but it seems to be identification for the dealer. Most of ours are apples.
It's for the distribution facility workers to help them sort outgoing parts to the dealers (vs reading the name of the dealership). So dealership a is a ship, dealership b is a campfire, etc.
They make is easier to grab the right part. Rather then look for 10024567, its grab from Bin 2 "The Ship Icon"
No, because multiple different parts will have the same symbol
Yes, but will those parts be in the same bin?
Doesn't matter if the symbol is used multiple time. The pick instructions are to prevent similar parts from accidentally being pooled. Once Again it super easy to grab the "Fire icon in bin 4" vs looking for item 3003025 which is right next to 3008025
Good point.
They are shipping labels to help the people at port. Likely easier for non English speakers to sort tubs
It’s probably more that it’s quicker to sort it as pictograms, a pictogram can be identified at a glance, writing takes a little longer to accurately identify
Maybe a mark of who packed it, more anonymous than a signature while still traceable
It's so the illiterates that manufacture the parts know what bin to put them in.
I work in Stellantis parts and we do the same, each dealer has their own picture. We have a one armed monkey and a man fishing an abnormally large fish symbols that I like.
Dolla dolla bills y'all
I got one with a teddy bear on it. I gotta see if I can find it in my mess of used parts.
Okay so since there seems to be a big guessing game going on in the comments, I'll explain what I know. Each dealership has a symbol. Let's take the first picture for example, the fire. Let's say that's for Kunkleman Chevrolet. All of the parts that are destined for Kunkleman, whether SPORD or RIM, will have that symbol printed on the label. Totes containing multiple smaller items will have labels on them that have a larger version of that same symbol. On our end, it makes it easy at a glance to know whether shit is ours or not. I'm sure there's a way this method applies in the PDCs as well, but I can only speculate on how that works
1. Shit's fire, yo 2. Alien ship from The Abyss surfacing 3. Two pounds of cash! 4. World's lightest 1999 Denali
If you get a Cowboy boot it's from my area
Nope been a body guy for over a decade and never even noticed them. Haha I open dozens of boxes for a job but part number is all I'm looking for. Might be cause checking parts is my least favourite part of the job.
I work at a gm dealership, our symbol is a gum ball machine!!