I'd like some suggestions on the best way to mark a lot code on stamped steel part. Its a drawn steel wheel half used to make a golf cart wheel. We need to put a code on the bare steel part indicating date of manf and the steel coil number it was made from. We will probably need to change the code a few times a shift since we change coils that often.
I was leaning toward a Telesis pin marking engraving device in a separate marking station with some kind of automated load/unload pick and place mechanism. A colleague suggests adding marking punches to the forming die. Can anyone suggest a tooling supplier of such a device that is quickly changeable, since we will have to change the coil number code about 3 times per shift.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Doug Danielson
recmd to mark steel part with changing lot code?