QR codes for equipment labels
An asset label is applied once and expected to last the life of the equipment — often a decade. Everything it points at will change several times in that period.
What changes behind the code
- Manuals and documentation, which are revised and moved.
- Service and support contacts, which change with contracts and staff.
- Maintenance procedures, and the compliance information attached to them.
- The service provider, when a maintenance contract moves to a new vendor.
What a reprint costs here
Relabelling is not a print cost, it is a field-visit cost. Someone has to physically reach every unit — across sites, in service, sometimes installed behind other equipment — which is why most asset labels are simply never updated and quietly stop being useful.
What to point it at
- The current manual or documentation set for that model.
- A maintenance log or ticketing form keyed to the asset.
- Whoever is currently responsible for servicing it.
Printing it
Use durable label stock and high error correction
Equipment labels live with abrasion, solvents, heat, and UV. Specify the label material for the environment, and raise the error-correction level so a partly worn code still reads.
One code per unit, not per model
A per-unit code lets the destination carry that machine's own service history. A per-model code can only ever open a generic page.
Make one for equipment labels.
100 codes free, no card. Change where any of them points whenever the thing behind it changes. Style one first — the builder needs no account.
Make a QR code