Aerospace part marking exists for one reason: every component has to be traceable for life. That means a permanent mark, usually a dot peen Data Matrix code, applied and verified to a specific standard. The standards you'll come across most often are AS9132 (the IAQG's Data Matrix marking...
No tour bus, no merch stand, and no support act. This October, Pryor is packing up the van and taking our marking machines on the road, first to the Midlands and then to Yorkshire. Two expos, two weeks apart, both built for manufacturers who want to see real kit rather than...
Today is 18 August 2026. It's the date written into Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as the trigger point for harmonised battery labelling across the EU market. But the picture is more nuanced than many compliance summaries suggest. Understanding exactly what today does and doesn't change matters, because the deadline...
Marking adds nothing to the performance of an aero engine component. It does not make a disc stronger, a BLISK lighter or a casing more efficient. And yet without it, that component cannot be fitted, tracked, maintained or replaced. It is one of the few processes in aerospace manufacturing that...
Every mark we apply eventually gets checked. The real question is how much checking the application actually needs, and that's where most conversations about vision cameras go wrong. Customers ask us for “a camera” when what they need is an answer to a narrower question: does the code just need...
MIL-STD-130 is a US Department of Defense standard practice governing the identification marking of US military property. Its current version, MIL-STD-130N, was issued on 17 December 2007, superseding MIL-STD-130M. It's approved for use across all Departments and Agencies of the DoD. Unlike some of the aerospace standards we've covered before, MIL-STD-130...
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...
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...
Quick answer: A MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) laser is a fibre 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 fibre laser cannot reliably produce: colour marking on stainless steel and...
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...
