Applications

Whether it's the LEC-1 control board or WinLase Software or a combination of both, Lanmark Controls is helping OEMs and integrators meet demanding manufacturing and laser marking challenges.

OTB-Solar (Eindhoven, Netherlands) - High Speed, Simultaneous Laser Marking
Working with OTB-Solar, Lanmark Controls is working to develop laser control software for a fully integrated large solar panel fabrication line being built. This new line will accommodate very high-speed galvo-controlled laser marking processes performed simultaneously: scribing, cutting, and marking.

OTB chose WinLase Software in order to better control the processing speed over a short process cycle time. This completely new process design is in the final R&D phase and OTB-Solar expects the first line to be installed in 2010.

MSC Company (Lyon, France) - Unique Datamatrix Marking on "The Fly"
MSC and its partner, the Safety Glazing Certification Council, developed a laser system that engraves a Datamatrix code on the glass bottles that it manufactures. This code was designed to be automatically read downstream to track the time/day of manufacture and to supply information for future trackability.

One problem: MSC's laser marking process couldn't meet the new line speed of 700 bottles per minute - AND provide a unique mark for each bottle. After researching existing suppliers of laser marking units, MSC approached Lanmark Controls about its LEC-1 control board, which accommodates high speed marking environments.

With the LEC-1, MSC now marks 10 unique data matrix codes per second. And, because the data matrix information is sent directly to the LEC-1 board, the company is able to mark its bottles on the fly with absolutely no stoppage when the bottle is marked. The LEC-1 controls the entire marking process - including the scanner. Read more

Medical Device Assembly: Lasers Make Marks in Medical
by Jim Camillo from ASSEMBLY Magazine, a BNP Media Publication, August 2011 Issue, pages 26-29.

Laser marking helps manufacturers improve patient safety by meeting the FDA’s new Unique Device Identification regulations.

Lasers are used extensively by medical professionals to surgically remove tumors or repair skin, eyes and hair. The types of lasers most commonly used for these procedures are carbon dioxide (CO2) and neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd: YAG).

Interestingly, these and other types of lasers are also being used by medical device manufacturers to mark codes directly on their products as a way to improve traceability. This trend will increase over the next few years as the FDA implements its new Unique Device Identification (UDI) system, which requires every medical device to bear a unique, globally recognized identifier so it can be tracked from the point of manufacture, through distribution, to final use. Read more