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A380 Engine Parts are First with Full Machine Readable Traceability
01 May 2007
Sheffield based Pryor Marking Technology and the Isle of Man’s Ronaldsway Aircraft Company, part of the RLC Engineering Group, have come together to apply the latest techniques and processes in direct part marking and machine readable vision technologies for some of the components used in the Trent engines being fitted on the new Airbus 380 aircraft.
Ronaldsway, part of the supply chain building the engine parts for the A380, is manufacturing and supplying titanium parts, which are vital components that provide anti-vibration in the engine blade sets.
The engines in the new A380 will be the first to have full machine readable traceability with 2D matrix codes.
Charlie Plain-Jones, traceability specialist at Pryor Marking Technology explains: “In using 2D data matrix codes, important information about each specific part can be contained within a square or rectangular code which is directly applied to the metal surface. The 20-30 characters typically used can be encoded in a fraction of the size of the traditional one-dimensional (linear) barcode that only contains 13 characters and hence the Data Matrix code has huge potential.”
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