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information, virtually eliminating human error. These tags were able to survive the process of pickling for periods of up to 90 minutes. However, when it came to the process of annealing, at temperatures of 1,400 o F (760 o C) or greater, these tags would vanish in a puff of smoke. Applying tags after the annealing process meant a wait of several days until the coils cooled. This opened the door to more potential for human error.

The Pic-Anneal ® Laser-Marked tags measure 3” wide and a slot or hole is punched near the top for easy attaching to wire coils. The tags are marked with a CO 2 laser, resulting in black print across the white surface. The barcodes printed on the tags are readable by standard barcode readers. InfoSight supplies a full selection of metal tags – all designed to withstand harsh manufacturing environments. These can be custom size and pre-print metal tags to cover most customer specifications. InfoSight also offers a line of laser printers which allow customers to print their own metal tags and to change their layout and barcodes, as needed.

Early tags survived through the annealing process, but in somecases wouldnot withstand the pickling. They required noisy stamping machines that were difficult and expensive to maintain. metal

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One of the tags produced by InfoSight

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Barcoding systems for metal tags were not suitable for all industrial applications. This meant the use of manual inventory control, which again meant the risk of human error. InfoSight created the first non-contact, laser-markable tag system in 1995. The next step in the process was developing tags that would survive the many different annealing and pickling processes utilised by theworld’s wiremanufacturers. InfoSight developed the Pic-Anneal ® laser printable tag. The Pic-Anneal ® tag has a two-hour resistance to acid baths of 20% H 2 SO 4 at 180 o F (82 o C) and 24% HCL at 100 o F (38 o C). It also withstands 1,400 o F heat for 48 hours and 1,800 o F (1,000 o C) for two hours.

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