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Traceability
solutions
INFOSIGHT Corporation designs and manufactures
automatic identification solutions for pipe and tube mills
worldwide. The company’s headquarters, in Ohio, USA,
houses offices for design and support staff, and factory
facilities for the manufacture of all of its products.
The I-Dent
®
stencil marking system offers a practical
alternative to manually stencilling products in an industrial
environment. The system uses a non-contact multi-nozzle
printhead that is capable of producing a full range of upper
case alphanumeric dot-matrix characters and logos. System
configurations are available to mark optional Infosight
OptiCode
®
barcodes, allowing the pipes to be marked to
enable automatic machine-readable identification in the
pipe mill. The I-Dent system is also available in a hot spray
version for printing on hot pipe surfaces up to 1,000°C
(1,800°F).
The IDLMS™ system (inside diameter laser marking
system) for the automated ID marking of large diameter
large OD pipe receives downloaded data from the mill
computer, applies a white patch to the inside surface of
the pipe, laser-marks the paint patch, and then optionally
spray-applies a clear protective coating on top of the
mark. The laser mark can contain text, graphics, and
images such as industry-standard or company logos,
and 1D or 2D barcodes. Downstream barcode readers
can capture the identification of the pipe from the mark at
various manufacturing nodes, and the mark is designed to
withstand long-term outdoor storage.
InfoDent
®
is an industrial marking system designed to
quickly and permanently stamp variable message data onto
the outside diameter surface of pipes. The stamping head
can be integrated into a positioning mechanism to move the
marking head into position and mark the properly positioned
product upon customer signal.
LabeLase
®
tag printers offer a complete line of metal
tag printers for traceability and labelling of pipe bundles or
pallets. The laser-marked metal tags can be used for many
other uses in the pipe mill.
The Weigh Measure Stencil (WMS) system integrates
several technologies into one custom-designed solution
for pipe mills. Each WMS system is designed specifically
for the pipe mill geometry, product range and throughput
requirements. Available WMS system geometries include
linear in-conveyor designs, lateral transfer walking beam
designs, and lateral transfer roll-by designs.
Barcoding is a method of marking tubular products to
enable identification during the production process. Tubes
can be barcoded by several techniques, including adhesive-
backed paper or polyester labels, paint marking and laser
marking. InfoSight offers laser-marked barcodes for pipe
inside diameter solutions, and dot-matrix stencil-marked
barcodes for pipe outside diameter solutions.
InfoSight Corp
– USA
Fax: +1 740 642 5001
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