TPT November 2014

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 Email: sales@infosight.com Website: www.infosight.com

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