Permanent metal plate identification by embossing

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In an economy where costs and savings are more of a focus than ever, efficiency is no longer a choice, but a must. With metal plate embossing, maximising efficiency is only a single machine away.
Metal plate embossing offers a permanent, intuitive way to organize, catalog, and track your goods. By embossing identification plates and affixing them in the most lasting fashion, you can create a unique identity for any product from the smallest of parts to the largest of machines. With these permanent tags, you can increase efficiency by tracking the products you need and saving the costs you don’t.

First, identification plates allow for efficient organisation of inventory. By implementing a system to accurately track your goods, you can know exactly where costs should and should not be allocated. Whether it’s a product in your warehouse to be shipped or a part that doesn’t need to be ordered, you can save effort and capital by organising your current stock. There is simply no better solution than metal plate embossing, which offers the most permanent, readable, and organisable identification for your products.

Tracking your products is equally important. Knowing the location and history of your goods means you can control its lifespan and respond to trends in similar products. Also, you can keep watch over products with an unalterable form of identification that thieves cannot alter. A plate of steel, brass, or alloy is the most sturdy label to stand up to wear and tear over time or the effort of thieves alike. Embossing creates an unalterable identity for your valuable products.

Efficiency cuts costs and enhances productivity, and with metal plate embossing, you can guarantee efficiency in organisation and identification of your products. Metal plates offer the best readability and durability over any other kind of labeling as they are not prone to the wear and tear of print or etching. Plates also guarantee unalterable uniqueness, since they are molded from single sheets of your choice of durable metal and alloy. The applications are limitless, and there are solutions for any need. For smaller plates and production, hand-held machines like the M10 are ideal, as they produce smaller plates of inexpensive but durable metals to be affixed to any kind of durable material. Larger applications for industrial machinery and factory supplies and parts are best accommodated by the ME1000 and the ME2000. These industrial strength machines offer quality embossing in either manually-fed or automatically-fed formats, respectively. This line of embossers offers the efficiency that is necessary for success in today’s economy.

Innovative Methods for Traceability in Printing

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As the world changes, so does the printing industry. No longer confined to simply reproducing text and pictures, the printing industry is now involved in the field of “traceability.” In lay man’s terms, this means that certain companies, such as Unisys in the United Kingdom, have made a specialty of this little known manufacturing sector. Using a variety of applications, companies like Unisys manufacture components that can provide laser marking and engraving, plastic embossing, metal plate embossing, and thermal plastic embossing.

Traceability is required for a variety of industries. It allows for the necessary tracking of items along a distribution chain so items can be tied to original batches. For example, in the food industry, it’s often critical to know where and when a food product was made. In the event of a food recall, all items can be located. In the automobile industry, each vehicle must be marked or embossed with a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) so that the product can be tracked for such things as recalls, insurance claims, and ownership verification.

Innovative methods for product traceability are created by different manufacturing techniques. Some products may need to have laser engravings done, while others may need plastic cards embossed. Metal products, such as medical instruments or automobiles, may require metal plate embossers. Bank cards, membership cards, and government issued cards may all require plastic embossing. Thermal card printing techniques are used for plastic cards and other products that can encode magnetic stripe barcodes.

Although most of us use these tracking products every day, we give little thought to the innovative means by which they are created.