The World's First Battery-Powered, Class 1 Portable Laser Marking Machine Portable laser marking has always come with a catch. The machine might be mobile, but it still needs a power connection. Or a compressed air line. Or both. In practice, that limits where you can actually use it, and for many...
It is one word. Four syllables. And right now it is keeping compliance managers, production engineers and regulatory teams at battery manufacturers across Europe up at night, Battery Marking is about to become more complex. Indelible. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines Indelible as "An indelible mark or substance is impossible to remove " Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 states...
Quick answer: A MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) laser is a fiber laser with adjustable pulse width, typically tunable from 4 ns to 200 ns and frequencies up to 1 MHz That single capability unlocks four results a standard fiber laser cannot reliably produce: color marking on stainless steel and...
And what to use instead. Walk into almost any battery manufacturing facility today and you will find adhesive labels. They are quick to apply, cheap to produce and familiar from decades of product labelling practice. They are also almost certainly non-compliant with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The regulation uses one...
For most of the past decade, traceability in battery manufacturing stopped at the pack. A unique identifier on the outer housing was enough to satisfy quality systems and recall requirements. The individual cells inside were treated as interchangeable, identified only by batch, not by unit. That approach will not satisfy the...
An aero engine disc rarely gives you a flat face to work with. Casings, blisks and turbine rings come with curves, bores, internal diameters and angled faces that a fixed marking head simply cannot reach. On a component where a misplaced or unverified mark can mean rework, concession or scrap,...
