Marking on a moving green chain
Timber and wood processing. The drivers are consumable spend and line uptime.
Marking control
Every part marked. Every mark on the record.
Your line already knows what every part is. Light Lane puts that onto the part itself, at the rate the line runs, and writes the proof back against the job.
- Your operators stop typing codes at shift change.
- No ink, no solvent, no head strip at 2am.
- The mark is in the material, so handling does not take it off.
Where identity breaks
Your plant already knows what the part is. The break is between knowing it and getting it onto the part.
Why it stayed open
Sources, heads, enclosures and interlocks are catalogue items, and driving a permanent mark into steel or timber is settled physics. The layer above them is what nobody sold. Something has to read the tag, pull that part's job, compose its mark and fire it inside the window the part gives you. Light Lane engineered it.
- Somebody keys a code at shift change, and the pack that ships is the one that got it wrong.
- A blocked head is line time, and it never happens at a convenient hour.
- A label comes off in the wash, and the part is anonymous from there on.
- The second database somebody set up to fix it starts drifting from the first on day one.
How it runs on your line
Four events, inside the window one part gives you.
- Step 1
Your systems stay put
Your ERP keeps the job, the batch and the serial. Nothing is migrated, and the plant never gets a second database to maintain.
- Step 2
The tag at the head
The Control Layer reads the PLC tag that identifies the part under the head, and pulls that part's data from the system that owns it.
- Step 3
Composed for that part
The mark is composed for that individual part, then drawn while the part moves, with the geometry compensated for line velocity.
- Step 4
Written back to the job
The completion is written back with timestamp, machine and station, so the mark on the part and the record of it come from one event.
Find your line
Nobody buys marking for the same reason twice. Each page is written against the driver that gets a system signed off there.
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Marking that survives caustic wash-down
Food, seafood and aquaculture. The driver is recall containment.
In-fixture marking on your own cutter
Manufacturing and fabrication. The driver is part identity tied to the ERP job.
Certification traceability on machined parts
Marine and heavy engineering. The driver is certification and service life traceability.
Identity on assets that leave
Logistics and reusable assets. The driver is shrinkage and register accuracy.
Permanent identity on capital equipment
Asset and equipment marking. An asset you cannot identify is an asset you will buy twice.
Mark quality on branded work
Branded production and signage. The drivers are margin and lead time.
For the rest of the committee
This gets decided by more people than were on the call.
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Engineering specifications
Material matrix, source selection, symbol grading and the measured speed model.
Integration architecture
Connection patterns, authentication, failure behaviour and network posture, for IT.
Programme assurance
The document set, the acceptance gates and the handover pack.
What a programme costs
What drives a programme number, how capital is structured, and the cost model.
Send us a part
Send one part in the condition it actually arrives in. Tell us the rate the line has to hold, and what the part goes through after the mark. You get back a numbered report: the parameter set, the verification grade and the process window.
Last updated August 21, 2026