Sequential numbering on data plates

I am looking for someone/ a company who can number stamp a series of machine data plates with sequential numbers. Potentially up to 500 plates but may not be all in one batch. Plates are all identical roughly 100 x 55mm. Has anyone on here ever had similar requirement or does anyone know anyone who might be able to take this on?

Diane

If you dont mind laser etching you'll possibly find someone more easily

Mate Enumerator is the best auto sequencing seq number punch I found in industry. They are heavy duty professional press tools and are priced as such, but they are top quality.

https://www.mate.com/product/punch-press-tooling/popular-special-applications/enumerator/

CNC engraving would be another option and look more like stamped numbers than laser engraving.

Are these plates you have done the main engraving on and just need a running serial number? If so this is the sort of thing that could be CNC cut as the central number was on these plates where I used a different type of cutting to the rest of the design to make them look more like stamped. No I'm not putting my hand up for the job but there are other members who may take it on.

Edited By JasonB on 01/07/2023 07:43:33

Doane,

A few decades ago now, I noticed that army radios had plates similar size to your requirements. Marked, "mod. record" seem to recall 1 - 50 and each number was crossed out with a diagonal line stamped, say, 1,2,3 and so on up to say 17, representing the latest modification. They were black background with silvery characters - Ali plates with a black coating, possibly? If you could trace the contractor who made the plates, but could be a challenge due to military secrecy. Maybe pick out of the hat, almost any engineering company, ask if they do plates and if not, could they recommend a company that does. I guess military supply companies would be best bet. Look out for those boasting about '9001' or similar manufacturing standards.

Good luck in your search.

John

The labels on military equipment were quite likely made by companies who supplied industry too.

Such labels generally seem to have been made by screen-printing but the numbers were stamped by the customer, i.e. the manufacturer of the equipment, not of the label.

ISO9001 claims do not mean anything unless you run a company that genuinely needs fully traceable products and has the means to support it. It is not a manufacturing quality standard as such, but accredits the holder's internal product or service consistency management - and is expensive, adding to the selling price.

Searching for ISO9001-registered label-makers may well elicit only firms willing to sell definitely thousands not perhaps just a few hundred, possibly in batches; and on full trade accounts.

Unless your firm is 9001-accredited and your customer for the labelled product genuinely needs even the labels made by an ISO-9001 company, the claim is really rather pointless.

Diane.

I've used these people in the past.

Modern Engraving Stoke On Trent

Do you have a local shop that does shoe repairs, key cutting and dog tag engraving? If they have a modern CNC dot peening or engraving machine (or similar) it will probably have the software for sequential numbering included in the package. The old style Taylor Hobson pantograph engravers are gradually being replaced by small desktop CNC machines.

I worked in an ISO9001 accredited factory. ISO9001 meant we had (for example) quality control, a system of written standards, good standards of record keeping, material certification, and working practices and that people worked to those written procedures. We used dot peening to mark the necessary part numbers and traceability numbers on pipes. The need for the part marking was due to working to ISO9001 but manual etching could have been used if it was a well controlled system that met the requirements laid out in the quality marking standard we worked to and was specified on the part's drawing. As far as pipes were concerned if stamping was to be used it was limited to pipes with wall thicknesses that could stand up to the process or had flanges that could be stamped on the rim, 16swg (1.6mm) tube could never be stamped with hammer stamps.

Martin C

Wonder how many companies that had an auto indexing 'Prior' stamping punch have long since gone?

Regards Ian.

The modification labels are a standard part. RS used to sell them but seem to have stopped. They are available elsewhere e.g. https://www.labelsource.co.uk/label/labels-tags---nameplates/general-and-industrial-labels/modification-labels

We had one of those Prior auto indexing punches for the labels on Rosemount pressure transmitters. It was easier to put the label in a small CNC engraver than to get a consistently good result with it.

Martin C