Sheffield-based Pryor Marking Technology is to showcase its full range of innovative and efficient marking solutions at EMO 2019 (Hall 11, Stand B3) (www.pryormarking.com).

Having taken its largest-ever stand at the show, the company will highlight its ‘one-stop shop’ approach to industrial permanent marking.

It can supply dot peen, laser or scribe marking technologies, each of which can be tailored to the specific needs of its customers.

Sales director Alastair Morris said: “We have reshored all of our production operations since the last edition of EMO, meaning that all of our technologies are now designed and manufactured in the UK.”

Pryor will demonstrate a version of its pioneering Aerospace Rotative Marking Cell, which has been designed for the rapid and highly precise marking of large cylindrical aerospace components.

These parts may require 15 or more marks to be made at various points to positional tolerances of 0.1mm — impossible to do by hand. The cell comprises an ABB robot, a rotary table, a marking head and a vision system.

When a part has been loaded onto the rotary table and clamped in place, the operator scans the part’s unique ID, which calls up the programme of marking instructions; these are carried out by the robot-mounted marking head.

The whole process is controlled by Pryor’s software, while the company’s vision system helps to validate and verify all marks.

Pryor will also showcase its portable laser marker, which can be used to carry out high-speed permanent laser engraving on large immobile metal objects.

In a recent project, the hand-held device was shown to be able to clearly and precisely engrave 90 names every 50sec, with each letter measuring just 0.8mm in height.

As laser marking is a non-contact technology, it does not create any stress points or deformation in the material to which it is being applied.

Pryor will also highlight a large high-power floor-standing laser workstation, a full line-up of dot marking machines — from compact hand-held units to highly flexible marking trolleys for the four-axis marking of large parts — and its ‘revolutionary’ CNC marking tool.