To produce most of the labels you can see on this site you need one of these.
Its a Lighthouse CPM-100 vinyl printer and cutter. It is very versatile and can print and cut just about any colour combination. On this model the width is restricted to 100mm but unlimited in length which in reality covers just about every label you could want to make for your Visual Maintenance application.
We used to get all are labels and signs made but with this is you see somewhere you think its useful you can have a suitable label made up in a matter of minutes and out on the equipment right away. It also makes changing settings a breeze as sometimes setting which you think are the best can, a year or so down the line, need to be tweaked after you improve or understand the process better.
We actually also use the vinyl label rolls to produce the shapes for our shadow boards.
Originally the isolator had only the white electrical reference showing which meant that before isolating various sections of the machine who had to consult the manual to be sure what you were isolating. The blue descriptive labelling gives a much clearer indication of what exactly will be isolated.
it is still felt though that an addition of a pictorial reprentation would be of further benefit.
Here there is a bank of pneumatic pressure switches for ensuring correct part location. Each of the sensors has numerous setting that need changed from factory setting to ensure that the sensors work correctly and some of the sensors are set up slightly differently to each other.
The sensors where labelled and a corresponding chart fitted as close as possible with all the settings shown. This helps ensure that settings are not set wrongly due to not being known, assumed or tweaked. personal can check them during maintenance routines and should one ever fail the correct settings are available with out having to go looking.
This was in an installation of a new machine where originally nothing was labelled. All the cabinet componenets were sunsquently labelled for there function and all lidding was labelled so in the event of it ever being removed it would be put back in the correct place for the compoent labelling to make sense.
It is planned to go one step further and also show the correct ampage set points for all the MCB's. How many times have we gone to machinery with a motor burnt out only to find somebody in their wisdom had turned up the trip to stop those nuisience faults.
