Traceability in ultrasonic welding

Diligent process documentation is becoming increasingly important in the industry and has long been a must for safety-critical parts. Recall campaigns are expensive and can damage a company's reputation. Sophisticated traceability systems enable industry players to optimize production processes, record complex data and attain quality assurance in all stages of production.

As a manufacturer of ultrasonic welding machines, Herrmann Ultraschall is now providing a barcode scanner with specially developed software, called BarcodeScan DIALOG, for its DIALOG machine series. Traceability is now feasible for each individual weld process. Functions like part and batch identification and linking to previously stored weld parameters (memory selection) simplify machine operations. The flexible barcode system can also be used in production for weld process release, long-term archiving of process data and prompting of components.

The BarcodeScan DIALOG software is to be installed and freely configured (even retroactively) on the machine control unit, whereas the scanner itself is connected via USB. Barcodes (1D) or DataMatrix codes (2D) can be read in. The barcode scanner is available as a robust hand-held unit or machine integrated version.