Generating Better Labels Improves Automation
Working with many parts with many manufacturing steps poses a challenge in keeping things organized. To have even a fighting chance parts need to be identified – labeled – to ensure that everyone know what the part is.
Even with the sophisticated – ‘123-4567’ / project-part numbering scheme we very often need more information and to ensure that the next person knows what to do.
ONGAA CAM has expanded its label printing capabilities in Nesting to support not only the following information:
- Project with Sheet number
- seq# and Part Number/Name
- Dimensions
- Material Name
An now also include up to 8 Solidworks custom properties and a dedicated ‘Barcode’ source property. An image of the part itself can also be placed on the label.
Supported encodings are 1-D (3of9 barcode), 2-D QR Code and 2-D Data Matrix.
In the above example, the first custom property indicates the edge banding color and sides … Read the rest
