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Laserax Adds a 200W Fiber Laser for Marking and Cleaning Applications

By Normand Lemieux on

Quebec City, Canada, Laserax is launching a 200W laser to complement its wide range of fiber laser. The type of fiber laser chosen is particularly well adapted to laser direct part marking and laser...

Product Launch: Shotblast Resistant Laser Marking

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Quebec City, Canada. Laserax will launch its exclusive patent-pending shotblast resistant laser marking process at the 2018 Die Casting Congress & Exposition, which will take place from October 15...

What Are the Differences Between Laser Engraving and Laser Annealing?

By Normand Lemieux on

Fiber lasers are used to carry out laser direct part marking (LDPM) on various metals. From the softer to the hardest metals, it is possible to mark individualized identifiers that takes the forms of...

Laser Marking Time Estimate for Industrial Applications

By Normand Lemieux on

Traceability can be the source of a great competitive advantage for diecasters and many others in the primary metals industry. Laser marking combined with Data Matrix Code is a great means to do...

Laser Engraving for the Diecasting and Primary Metals Industries

By Normand Lemieux on

This post offers an overview of laser direct part marking, the reasons to favour Data Matrix Codes over any other encoding mechanism, how much time is required to uniquely identify a part and a quick...

Laser Safety Resources and references

By Julien-Mathieu Audet on

When integrating high-power laser on production floors some concerns regarding the safety of workers will surely arise. In this blog, we suggest a series of resources that you might find useful to...

The Basics of Laser Safety... For Open-Air Enclosure

By Normand Lemieux on

As a smelting, a die-casting or extrusion professional, are you considering the use of laser direct part marking to improve traceability? Laserax’s open-air laser marking system may be the solution...

Process Control with Laser Direct Part Marking by Arick Kaschalk

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Hear what Arick Kaschalk from Visi-Trak, a leading provider of monitoring and control solutions to the die casting industry, has to say about the burning subjects of the hour for diecasters:...

The Challenges of Direct Part Marking (DPM) and Post Process Treatments

By Normand Lemieux on

We have been saying for quite some time now that laser Direct Part Marking (DPM) is the sturdiest way to implement a traceability system. We have put our beliefs to the test, and the results are in....

The Basics of Safety for Sealed Laser Enclosures

By Normand Lemieux on

One of the most common uses of lasers is, you guessed it, office laser printing. As a matter of fact, laser diodes can be found in your regular run-of-the-mill office printer. You probably never...

Industrial Traceability: Barcodes and 2D Codes

By Normand Lemieux on

https://www.laserax.com/ebook-industrial-traceability-how-barcodes-work-0Laser Direct Part Marking (LDPM) is the identification of individual parts (or bundle of parts) with unique identifiers. The identifiers are marked directly onto the products. Download the guide:...

The Basics of Laser Safety

By Normand Lemieux on

Nobody expects that the intensity required to tear speckles of metal from a part to be harmless to humans. But you might not expect that the reflections of the laser beam might be harmful to humans...