Ordering on line

[JohnW2]

Good to know it's not just me, I'm used to the ones printed on a dark burgundy body, but I got some recently, where the body is light blue, I can't make head not tail of them. I've resorted to taking a photo of them and enlarging it, even then I can't really make out the colours properly.

Similar here, most commonly with the ones with a dark blue body. Magnifying glasses (equivalent to your photo method) don't really help. It's even quite common that I can't even work out which end to start reading from!

Kind Regards, John

 

[SimonH2]

CPC used to be a right pain with their seemingly random mix of single and pack quantities. I still have some 25W coloured light bulbs from when (at least a couple of decades ago) I changed my mind about which ones to order - switching from a brand sold in singles to one sold in packs of 10
They still have a mix of singles and packs - but for many years they've put up a red banner at the top of the basket saying something like "Products XYZ is sold in packs of 50, so you are ordering 100 items".

But a couple of jobs ago I managed the IT for a manufacturer/importer/wholesaler in the gift trade. Even after a decade there, I still struggled to understand the permutations of stock units, sales units, and pack sizes we held in the computer
More "fun" was trying to keep on top of the creative ways people could come up with to mess up the barcoding - a favourite one was to enter one variant of a product and then duplicate it for all the other variants, leading to (say) 20 colours of a candle all having the same barcodes

Given that a high proportion of commercial/industrial assembly of electronic things is now done by 'robots', I wonder if the problem is that they are now prioritising 'machine readability', rather than 'human readability'?

For machine assembly, there's no "reading" involved. The operator just loads the reels of taped components, reading the values off the reel label - the devices themselves could be completely unlabelled/unmarked. The machine simply takes the components from the reel it's been told to use and puts them where the file says they go.

I was initially educated in disciplines that were absolutely riddled with mnemonics (many/most of which {at least the 'student modifications' thereof} are not repeatable in front of a family audience!)

I still recall my resistor colour code from a mnemonic which I'm not sure it would be legal to recite in any company these days

 

[JohnW2]

For machine assembly, there's no "reading" involved. The operator just loads the reels of taped components, reading the values off the reel label - the devices themselves could be completely unlabelled/unmarked. The machine simply takes the components from the reel it's been told to use and puts them where the file says they go.

Yes, I assumed that. However, when I made my comment I was wondering whether there might actually (at least sometimes) be some 'robotic reading' involved as 'checking' process - but maybe not!

I still recall my resistor colour code from a mnemonic which I'm not sure it would be legal to recite in any company these days

Kind Regards, John