LC brass question

[Abenaki]

Lake City brass.
I know what LC stands for.
I know the Nato symbol.
I know the year of production.

My question is, what are the little dots in between the symbols for?
Are they for production lines? What work shift? What machines?


Thanks
Take care
Abenaki

[NukleusX]

Perhaps they are just ornamental dots?

[acoop101]

This is a new thing that I believe came from when ATK federal took over. I don't think it means anything.

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[bazineta]

The little dots are octal number encodings. Look up 'SCAMP' for details.

[acoop101]

The little dots are octal number encodings. Look up 'SCAMP' for details.

Got a link because scamp doesn't pull anything useful when googled.

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[baih777]

google

octal number encodings

interesting

[bazineta]

Got a link because scamp doesn't pull anything useful when googled.

Here's an old thread from AR15.com that's got the encodings list.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_16/470119_.html&page=1

Here's an article on the program; it's quite an old program, around since at least 1970.

https://www.army.mil/article/113497

Basically rounds manufactured at the arsenal plants like LCAAP, are made on high-speed machinery, and the dots provide traceability as to what machine(s) a given round was manufactured on, for QA purposes, etc.