The ALLTEC Laser Business Unit has introduced the ALLTEC LF050, a novel 5W continuous wave fiber laser marking system for marking and coding smallest parts with highest resolution and accuracy. The innovative system has been primarily designed for marking electronic components. Molded housings of discrete and integrated components as well as circuit boards have to be marked precisely, with high quality and in the shortest of time.

The LF050 is also suitable for marking foils, films, bags and composite packagings used in the packaging industries.

Product manager for the ALLTEC Laser Business Unit, Manfred Suddendorf, said: ‘With ALLTEC LF050 we are supporting our customers in the electronics and components industry, with a system that allows them to continue their drive towards marking ever smaller components.

The system can achieve character heights below 150 micron with line widths well below 30 micron.

Our novel hardware and software integration concept delivers a system that is especially easy to integrate into production environments such as component handling and testing lines, while offering reliable, essentially maintenance-free operation’.

Thanks to its wavelength that is 10 times shorter than that of a CO2 laser marker, its high beam quality and the use of the superior galvanometer scanning technology the system marks with high resolution, fast, precise and with excellent legibility.

An efficient, air-cooled laser source (50,000h estimated maintenance-free operation) LF050 works reliably and is easy to maintain.

Finally, the world wide unique mechanical integration concept with it’s dovetail joint, the integrated fine height adjustment, a 5m detachable fiber conduit and its small and compact system design ensures that LF050 integrates easily, flexibly and quickly into any production environment.

Marking speeds are up to 800 characters/s and line speeds up to 10m/s (depends on the used specifications and application).

The LF050 applies a variety of contents (expiry and manufacturer dates, lot and line numbers, ID matrix and bar codes, graphics, individual data, etc) in the shortest of time and in uncompromising quality - both on moving (’on-the-fly’ marking) and non moving products and components.

Finally, the high accuracy marking field correction option that ensures the calibration of the system, enables that all codes - as small as they might be - will be applied exactly where they should be applied.

This is especially important in the semiconductor industry with it’s components that are ever shrinking in size.

Additional advantages of the ALLTEC LF050 are the choice of many languages available on the user interface (e g, English, Chinese, German, and more than ten more) and the overall flexibility of the already proven Windows-based Smart Graph software, which also provides multiple password-protected security levels.