Stay ahead with practical guides on engraving, safety labeling, and industrial identification from the TagBuilder production floor.
What goes behind a mushroom-head E-stop: yellow legend plate, wording options, 22 mm and 30 mm plate sizes, numbering for multiple stops, and replacement tips.
Which colors go on which control panel plates: white on black, black on yellow, white on red and more, with NFPA 79 and IEC 60204-1 device color practice.
After a controls retrofit the old labels describe a machine that no longer exists. Here is a checklist for the nameplate, legends, E-stops and device tags.
Standard legend wording for START, STOP, RESET, JOG and E-STOP, the colors commonly paired with each, and a copyable six-device legend schedule.
How NFPA 79 Chapter 16 governs machine nameplates, disconnect labeling and device identification, and how it lines up with UL 508A and NEC 670.