Metal tag stamping and engraving is an essential part of manufacturing processes. If your business uses components that involve bending flat sheets of metal into suitable shapes, you are, directly or indirectly, using a metal tag stamping machine. As we will learn in subsequent sections, it is a very useful but complex process. If done…
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Laser marking and engraving is fast becoming a very attractive business for many people in recent times. Not only have traditional businesses become increasingly aware of the potential of this technology, but the use cases have continued to emerge as a result of improved laser techniques and ever reducing costs of owning laser marking machines.…
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Introduction A laser engraving machine is a must-have for every manufacturer and vendor in the jewelry business. Engraving metals, jewelry, and other materials have been a very common practice from a long time back. But recently amazingly high-tech, laser engraving machines have been developed that can solve all your metallic and non-metallic marking problems. In…
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Whether you are a car owner, a repair shop, a garage proprietor or a car manufacturer, you will invariably find yourself in need of marking parts of the vehicle(s) you are dealing with. Marking is the technology that allows us to have good traceability of parts, while also ensuring that we can identify parts easily.…
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Inkjet printing has been with us from the early 50s when Epson, Canon and Hewlett Packard started making printers for industrial use. However, with an ever increasing need for labelling and marking a wide variety of materials on the go, industrial versions of the inkjet printer are being complimented with a new innovation. The handheld…
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CNC machines are the electro-mechanical devices that manipulate machine shop tools using computer programming inputs. Many people wonder whether the CNC machining industry grows with the times. Others say, wait a minute; What the heck is CNC Machining? In this article, I want us to have a little fun with what this technology is, and…
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Laser marking is a revolutionary technology that is currently used for a very wide variety of applications. It is applicable in many forms, from engraving, annealing, foaming to staining and removing techniques. To choose what technique and what machine to use for each desired application is what most people have to worry about. This is…
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You may have heard about or even used vehicle identification numbers (VIN), especially if you are in the automotive industry. Applied using many different techniques, VIN marking is useful in part traceability, theft deterrence among many other uses. These numbers have been used on all types of vehicles for many decades. Yet few people understand…
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If you are just entering into the world of marking, you are coming in at a very opportune time. This is because this industry has old and new technologies that together make marking a very interesting, beautiful and profitable undertaking. And none of the technologies are as flexible and intriguing as fiber laser marking. In…
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One of the key processes in many manufacturing industries working with metals and hard plastics is engraving, where a product’s parts are marked with logos, numbers, or barcodes for identification. Whether you are using the technology to mark metallic parts of a larger equipment, watches, rulers, plates, logos or signs, this technology has proven to…
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