The License Plate Production Enhancement System is a high tech solution to the challenges of production vanity or personalized license plates. Have you ever read a license plate on the road that had an encrypted message like "IMGR8" or "CUB42L8"? These messages are hard enough to comprehend forwards, but just imagine the operator of a license plate embossing operation of which most are set up to have reverse placement of letters and characters to make such a plate. The first two examples would read "8RGMI" and "8L24BUC". It's easy to see how mistakes are made and why personalized plates take the longest to make. A good operator can make up to 1,000 serialized plates in an hour, but that same operator would have trouble making 250 personalized plates.

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John R. Wald Makes It Work

The Production Enhancement System is another example of engineered systems developed by the John R. Wald Company to "Make It Work". The PES is an affordable opportunity to digitally enhance existing production methods. Typically it produces a run list for daily production, but it can also be used with a bar code scanner to run specialty graphic plate blanks that require personalization.

Operational Flow

1. Personalized license plate orders are received (typically in alphabetical order).
2. Custom PES Software imports data into the PES database and then optimizes it to provide the most efficient sequence for minimal tool changes.
3. The digital die display shows the next plate to be made with the correct sequence of hinges and spaces.
4. The operator arranges the hinges in the M48 Safety Feeder.
5. The PES system "reads" the hinges and verifies that the right hinges are in the right places.
6. Successful verification enables the press to interlock to allow for an operator to emboss the plate.
7. A time and date stamp is recorded in the database for reporting and analysis of production.