QR Code Tags for Tracking Fabricated Steel

A large designer and builder of metal buildings was in need of a better way to track their steel pieces. Their steel is manufactured at multiple fabrication and galvanizing shops, and they struggled with consistent legibility of part number markings when the steel arrived at the building site.

They had using a manual tag embosser to create tags for the steel pieces, but the tags were sometimes not readable after returning from galvanizing. Their customers wanted better traceability, so they began researching bar code tags that could survive the harsh cleaning and zinc coating kettles. They found Pannier’s bar code metal tags and the PLUS3 Metal Tag Printer.

The Pannier PLUS3 printer was the perfect fit for their needs. It operates as a fully integrated production machine, allowing data to be imported directly from their material management software to eliminate the possibility of errors. With the data loaded, the super fast and user-friendly PLUS3 prints high resolution tags in batches of 1000 or more. Setup and integration were a breeze with support from Pannier’s technical team. Once they received their printer, they were printing tags within the hour.