Smart Coding Techniques And Their Benefits For Electronics

Electronic devices feature a large number of small components, each piece being highly important to their overall functionality and safety.

- Chirag Sheth

The responsibility for ensuring that each minute component is performing adequately rests firmly on the shoulders of the device and component manufacturers. However, their jobs are being made more difficult by the growing issue of counterfeiting in the electrical market.

Printed codes and marks enable manufacturers to track and trace products throughout the supply chain. These also, importantly, help distinguish between genuine and counterfeited components. However, counterfeiters are becoming increasingly sophisticated and have developed capabilities to replicate codes. In order to counter this problem, manufacturers find it necessary to employ more sophisticated coding methods such as smart code techniques.

Smart coding and micro-printing

In today’s rapidly-changing electrical component industry, manufacturers must combine the right technology and techniques to encounter the many obstacles they face.

Electrical components, more often than not, appear to be identical. Coding and marking allows manufacturers to safely make a distinction between parts. Further, coding and marking allow them to build brand recognition into their products.

Application of increasingly-complex codes on small surface spaces is a challenge that is hard to overcome with outdated printer technologies. Advanced micro-printers have proved to be the solution. These have the ability to produce high-quality legible text down to 0.6mm in size in high-speed production environments.