How to choose the right permanent marking technology for your industry?

The traceability process is essential for industrial companies. With productivity as the main objective, it is essential to integrate a high speed industrial marking machine offering durable and readable results.

Identification makes it possible to track every stage in the product life cycle:

• Parts supply
• Product manufacturing
• Different storage steps
• Sale to distributors or customers
• Product life
• Product recycling

Moreover, this marking makes it possible to identify and track parts over time. The marking adapts to each product or item and can take different forms such as: a text or serial number, a 1D code (barcodes), or a 2D code (QR codes or Datamatrix).

During traceability process, the environment where the identification marking will take place should be considered: on a production line or in a workshop.

Depending on this first choice, several constraints will need to be considered:

• beam exposure for a laser machine,
• the problem of noise,
• the space needed for integration or positioning

These first criteria can already determine the technology for your industrial marking machine.

To help you select the technology that will best suit your production challenges, we have produced this comprehensive guide.

On the agenda:

• analysis of product traceability needs;
• define whether the permanent marking should be aesthetic or functional;
• precision on the type of material, hardness and surfaces to be marked;
• definition of the constraints to which the parts will be subjected;
• consideration of the marking environment;
• definition of the budget to buy the most appropriate industrial marking machine.