Pryor Workstation Laser with Laser Safety Interlocks active What Every Manufacturer Needs to Know Walk into any manufacturing environment and the chances are there's a laser somewhere on the floor. Laser marking has become the default choice for permanent part identification across aerospace, automotive, medical, and heavy industry - and the technology...
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,...
Micro Data Matrix code with a 0.7mm pencil for scale Pushing the Limits of Micro-Marking: How Small Can a Laser Datamatrix Code Really Be? There’s a question that comes up now and then in marking conversations: how small can a datamatrix code actually go and still work? Not “quite” small.Not “barely readable” small.Properly...
We’ve been supplying industrial marking solutions to manufacturers and hobbyists across the UK and around the world for well over a century. And while technology continues to evolve, there are certain questions that still crop up time and again. One of the most common being: “What’s the difference between a...
