Method for marking and identification

摘要

Method for the marking and identification of a number of articles or functional units which can be produced in each case from a plurality of separate components, characterised in that a plurality of the components for each article or each functional unit are unmistakably, and before the end of production, arranged relative to one another and/or functionally assigned to one another, in such a way that the arrangement and/or assignment does not change the functional relationship of the components with one another and with other components in respect of a desired function of the article or of the functional unit, the arrangement and/or assignment of the components is a marking integral part of the article or the functional unit which can be changed only with the loss of the function and/or in a recognisably destructive manner and/or only at a high outlay, and marking properties of the article or the functional unit can be identified from each arrangement and/or assignment.