Track Your Assets with a UID Marking Process
Product tracking is essential to carry out quality management programs in different industries. Industries that produce multiple products can find it immensely difficult to execute proper maintenance work. A better product management system always emphasizes the need for real product tracking – ideally throughout the full lifetime of a part or product.
The importance of product tracking
UID marking helps to track stored, exported, and utilized products. A company can control production work having analyzed the ratio of produced and utilized products. This way product waste can be avoided.
With the help of UID nameplates, product tracking is cost effective for industries. It leads to the proper utilization of products and thereby reduces waste.
Product tracking is essential to keep a tab on stored products of a company. A UID nameplate assures proper record keeping.
How does one track products?
UID nameplates contain detailed information on the product or part type, the item code and also bear the manufacturer’s license number. As such, product tracking can be done with the help of nameplates. Nameplates and tags containing unique codes are useful to track products. In many cases, nameplates and tags include barcodes and 2D codes to ensure product traceability. A standard product marking process can make product tracking easy and saves time.
Using nameplates to track products
In the present day business scenario, which deals with a wide area workflow, it can become quite difficult for a company to track products. For a large-scale company it is impossible to track a particular item unless it has gone through this unique identification process. UID, or unique identification, marking is one of the most popular methods for product marking. This process was mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense. The DOD has implemented a set of rules for product marking. MIL STD 130 regulates the UID marking process.
According to MIL STD 130, metals like stainless steel and aluminum and non-metallic materials such as polyester can be used as nameplates. Tags are allowed for smaller items.
Laser marking equipment, programmable indent marking, industrial inkjet printing, embossing, indenting, stamping, tagging, and labeling are valid marking procedures.
The encoded information should be both in human readable and machine-readable format. Both 1D data format and 2D data format are applicable in this marking process.
These nameplates are checked and then crosschecked before UID registration. Steps like data validation and data verification ensures accuracy of the printed data. Any missing part or improper data can lead to cancellation of UID registry.
Nameplates are ideal for a product tracking system. Online resources are available on this topic. If you want to learn more about UID labels and registration, simply visit
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ID-integration provides complete solutions for UID marking, MIL-STD-130 and UID labels related needs and can assist with complete UID policy in accordance with DFARS 252.211-7003.
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