Manual date stamps are adequate for marking date in years and months. However using manual date stamps for marking date in months, days, hours, and minutes is problematic. Further, manual date stamps require rotation of bands and pre-checking of the positioned date on a waste paper. This is necessary because embossed numbers do not resemble normal numbers. Electronic date stamps are designed to overcome such drawbacks. Electronic date stamps comprise of electronic control unit, interface connector and date stamps. Date stamps come with choice of year, month, day, hour, and five-minute intervals. Date stamps are connected with an interface connector, which in turn is connected to an electronic control unit that enables programming of the date stamps. Electronic date stamps can also be networked with production machinery for facilitating effective monitoring. Access to electronic date stamps can be restricted by password protecting the controller. Additional dies for printing custom text such as "QC Checked", "Processed", and "Defective" can also be added to electronic date stamps. Electronic date stamps are also highly useful in automated production environments where products need to be marked for getting traced. Electronic date stamps can be incorporated with in the production environment for automated marking without stopping the process. Often in large factories deep cavity molds or extra large molds are unreachable from floor. Changing of date stamps wastes precious labor time under such scenarios. Factories have to resort to expensive date marking processes such as laser etching or inkjet printing for marking parts that difficult to reach and mark through manual stamps. Electronic date stamps provide a cost effective solution to this problem. |
