As a leading UK's supplier of permanent component and assembly marking systems, Peter McCullough, Technifor's UK sales and marketing manager, says: “As the UK's premier manufacturing event MACH provides us with the ideal opportunity to address the various quality control, automated component identification and permanent traceability issues faced by visiting engineering companies from across the country.” Micro-percussion machines being demonstrated include the new generation XF510p and the Propen P5000. Offering full integration the XF510p is compact, and offers fast marking on areas between 50mm by 20mm up to 200mm by 80mm. Designed to fit into the smallest possible volume it is ideally integrated into production lines where space and accessibility are a concern. The P5000 uses micro-percussion technology to provide cost-effective high quality marking. Up to five high quality characters can be marked per second within a 100mm by 120mm area, and the character size can be adjusted from 0.5mm to 80mm. Easy to use and install the P5000 requires no specific training. Manually adapted to the size of the part being marked, up to 300mm high, by an ergonomic handle the P5000 can mark all types of materials up to a hardness of 62 HRC. Portable marking solutions will also feature with the M120 and XF520Cp. The self-contained, portable M120's independent nature makes it ideal for identifying fixed assets, preventing counterfeiting, tracing bulky parts or for the indelible registration of products on leasing contracts. Capable of marking up to 10 characters per second in a marking area of 50mm by 20mm, the XF520Cp uses the same technology as Technifor's integrated marking machines. Ergonomically balanced for stability and comfort, the system is easy to handle and marks accurately and efficiently from any orientation. At 2.7kg the XF520Cp is lightweight and, with compact dimensions of 133mm long by 179mm wide and 94mm high, can mark difficult to reach locations. The XF520Cp can mark a wide range of materials, including raw, machined and painted metals and alloys, as well as most plastics. Equipped with an interchangeable foot system, information can be marked on flat, angular, convex or concave surfaces. The character size ranges from 0.5mm to 49.5mm high and integrated and intuitive software allows the rapid creation of marking files, with icons, pop-up help and on-screen graphic previews. Over 1,000 marking files can be held in memory, with fixed text, variables, date and time and counters. The file can also be imported or exported via a USB drive. While the XF530p has been designed specifically for industry sectors that require deep marking of parts, such as oil & gas, mining, materials handling, ship building, construction and transport, it is also portable and has the concentrated power to mark material deep enough to clearly show through most surface finishing processes, including painting, zinc plating or shot blasting. Offering a large marking area of 200mm by 50mm, the XF530p can mark flat, angular and radial material to a depth of up to 0.4mm. With adjustable ergonomically designed twin handles that can be orientated horizontally or vertically and featuring built-in start buttons, the XF530p is well balanced, easy to manoeuvre and marks accurately and efficiently on all material types and surfaces. Scribe marking technology is an almost silent process making it ideal for industrial applications with sound constraints. The XF510 scribing solution offers speed, precision and aesthetics for both traceability and identification of all part types. Marking up to 5 characters per second it can be used to mark all types of materials, including metals, alloys and plastics, of any shape with machined or cast finishes. Laser marking will be represented by the recently launched TF420. Using components developed for the telecommunications industry the TF420 offers many benefits in terms of performance and reliability. It has a marking power of up to 20W to provide consistent, high contrast character quality on a wide range of materials and difficult surfaces, such as castings. Capable of marking at up to 2.5m/second the compact laser unit can be integrated in any orientation to mark metals, plastics, ceramics and many other materials. Technifor
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