10 Part Marking Essentials for the Auto Industry

The challenge for today’s automotive manufacturers is in producing high quality, zero defect parts with 100% traceability while lowering production costs per part. In terms of parts marking, TLM offers high-end laser technology that can meet all these demands. Here’s how:

FOBA marking lasers

FOBA gave been developing laser marking systems for 35 years. The company provides advanced laser and application expertise and its name is synonymous with innovatory customer specific solutions. FOBA has long specialised in meeting automotive industry needs and has been the winner of several automotive marking benchmarks over the last two years. TLM Laser is FOBA’s product partner in the UK and Ireland.

Permanent Traceability

Full control of marking process (with vision)
Production data logging
Code and Optical Character Verification (OCV) (with vision)

Comprehensive Customer Support

Acceptance Packages including customer specific end tests
Customized mechanical and software engineering in order to meet customer specific requirements and challenges.
Dedicated lifecycle services including:
Service Care Packages
Remote diagnostics and monitoring of equipment
Spare parts availability
On-site customer training

Easy Integration

Seamless integration capability for easy adaption to production and data processing environments
Connects to PLCs, host computer systems and industrial protocols
Built-in software/ERP interfaces
Customized software solutions
Standard 19-inch controller and PC
Compact mechanical design

High Quality Marking

Universally applicable laser systems can mark complete range of automotive industry materials
Multiple wavelengths (fiber, CO2, UV)
Creation of durable, counterfeit-safe, highly precise sharp-contour characters, machine readable codes and other formats

High Speed, High Throughput

High-speed marking heads for fast, economic automotive parts processing
Up to 2,000 characters per second
Line speeds up to 15 m/s

Efficiency

Air-cooled laser system
High uptime
Almost zero maintenance

Data Integrity

Tamper-proof AOP (Advanced Operator Program) for production data security and program version control
Laser-integrated vision system with OCV and code validation
Local (on the system) and decentral (on a local file server) storage of parameter and layout data.

Compliance

Compliance with ISO 9001: 2015
Audit ready KANBAN system

Laser Integrated Vision

Patented high-speed vision system IMP (Intelligent Mark Positioning) integrated in laser marking head
4 pre-mounted, fully software controllable lightbars allowing for even illumination and reducing unwanted hot spot reflections
Pre- and post-mark inspection features ensure exceptional scrap reduction levels
Automatic mark alignment
Part validation prior marking
Pre-mark verification
Patent pending MOSAIC™ feature for fixtureless marking
Mark verification after marking
Code validation and OCV (Optical Character Verification) after marking

For information and full details of FOBA’s range of automotive industry laser marking solutions, please contact [email protected]