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,...
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...
What EV battery manufacturers need to know about the new marking and traceability requirements. Electric vehicle battery production is growing fast, and so is the regulatory scrutiny that comes with it. Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, the new EU Battery Regulation, introduces mandatory physical marking and digital traceability requirements affecting every manufacturer producing...
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...
Your PLC. Your Network. Our Integrator Laser The hardest part of integrating a marking system into an automated production line has never been the marking itself. It's been the conversation between the laser and everything else. How does the laser know what to mark? How does the PLC know when marking is...
The Markmate Laser The MarkMate Laser has always given manufacturers a safe, compact, capable desktop laser marking machine without compromise. We've now made a significant update to the product adding a higher power source as standard, and introduced a more advanced source for greater control and options during marking. The MarkMate...
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...
