Product category:
Component marking, printing and labelling systems (non-laser)
News Release from: Absolute Vision | Subject: VeriSmart Data Matrix code verifier
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 August 2004
Data Matrix verifier ensures codes
conform with QA
Data Matrix code verifier features an integrated camera and light unit that has been designed specifically for Data Matrix code verification and ensures codes meet ISO and AIM standards.
Absolute Vision, a specialist in two-dimensional (2D) code reading, has launched a Data Matrix code verifier designed to work with industrial marking equipment supplied by its parent company Pryor The AV Verifier, also known as the VeriSmart, is designed to ensure that Data Matrix codes meet the international Quality Assurance standards issued by ISO and AIM
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Unlike other verification products on the market, the VeriSmart features an integrated camera and light unit that has been designed specifically for Data Matrix code verification.
The VeriSmart reads the critical dimensions of each mark as well as checking the relationship between the mark and the background material on which it is applied, to ensure that these comply with 2D Data Matrix standards.
The VeriSmart will read Data Matrix codes directly applied with a laser or electrochemical etching, ink jet or dot peening (where a single metal stylus is applied to a surface, making controlled indentations) technologies.
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In a new approach to the reading of 2D codes, a hand-held 'mouse' device can be used for 'on-the-spot' checking of information encoded on parts during a manufacturing process.
The VeriSmart is aimed primarily at the aerospace, automotive and healthcare markets, where 2D Data Matrix coding has been adopted because of the quality assurance and security benefits it can bring.
By marking machined components with Data Matrix codes, manufacturers can give each component its own unique identity, making it easy to track through Quality Assurance processes and the use of portable readers.
This unique identity also acts as security against the growing problem of counterfeit components, by making it easy to detect whether or not a component is genuine.
Absolute Vision was acquired by global industrial marking equipment supplier, Pryor, in October 2003.
The VeriSmart combines Absolute Vision's expertise in 2D code reading with Pryor's expertise in marking equipment.
* About Absolute Vision - Absolute Vision Ltd is a specialist developer of two-dimensional (2D) code reading and machine vision solutions.
2D Data Matrix is a square or rectangular array of dots or cells that stores information in two dimensions (2D).
It has now been adopted in many industries and is quickly becoming the standard marking technology due to its ability to hold more information in a smaller space and the robustness of its reading capability.
Products include innovative stand-alone and hand-held readers, embedded OEM solutions and software data integr ation.
Absolute Vision was acquired by global industrial marking equipment supplier, Pryor, in October 2003.
Absolute Vision is working towards Investors in People and ISO 9001:2000 accreditations.
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