It is amazing how much laundry there is. We may generally only consider the dirty clothes produced by a family, at home. But there is actually a huge amount of laundry produced institutionally and commercially. Restaurants must launder their table cloths, napkins, and kitchen and server outfits. Although hospitals use many disposable items, they still require commercial washing of their bed linens and many other items. Hotels have a daily need to wash towels, sheets, items from their food facilities, and uniforms. These needs are repeated by many other institutions, schools and companies.

Wherever special chemicals, liquids, gases or cryogenic materials are used within an industrial process, there are large cylinders and dewars that are required to hold these materials. Many manufacturing facilities can house quantities of these types of containers. Others may only have one or two, but they may be critical to their operations.

Evolution has engineered all animals to seek nutrition to sustain themselves. Because sources of nutrition may become available only very intermittently, many animals will try to eat as much as possible when there is food in order to sustain themselves until the next time that food is once again available. We human beings are only too aware that in many places, plentiful, high calorie food sources are available whenever they are wanted. This can often lead to overeating with the result of becoming overweight. As we have learned, obesity is the root cause of a wide variety of health problems, including diabetes, heart disease, and decreased mobility, among others.

The most important goal in commercial aviation is the safety of passengers and crew. Tremendous efforts are made to assure that aircraft are built safely. Critical functions are provided with redundancy, to avoid disaster when there is some mechanical failure. Engines are designed to work well beyond their rated specifications, both in terms of power and environment. Navigation devices provide a variety of fail safe functions, allowing pilots to obtain necessary flight information.

It seems quite obvious that it is necessary to accurately measure all of the ingredients that must be mixed together to manufacture any formulation. What is not as obvious is the level of accuracy that must be attained. This, of course, is highly dependent on the material being formulated. Some types of mixtures are, by their nature, not very accurate and standard. This may be the case with agricultural products and animal feed mixtures. Others may need higher accuracy, but these levels may be easily achieved by a regular digital scale. Standard industrial scales can provide accuracy as good as 1/10 of 1%. Many chemicals, cleaning solutions, foods, and other mixtures easily fall within this range. This allows the typical bench scales to be used [+]

Every living being has an interest in our environment. We all need to breathe clean air and drink safe water. We would all like to be able to use the outdoors without being subjected to medical and other hazardous wastes. No one wants to deal with beaches that are littered with dangerous items, and no one wants to discover that inappropriate materials have been dumped in their neighborhoods.

For all of these reasons, there are many rules and regulations pertaining to the management of hazardous wastes. Some of these simply define what materials and items are deemed to be hazardous and which are not. Others outline the methods required for physically handling hazardous materials. There are specifications for the types of clear and accurate [+]

All types of liquids, powders, pellets, slurries and other materials are handled in a wide variety of different types of cans, buckets, pails, drums, tanks and other types of containers. Traditionally, these have been filled by hand. Liquids are often dispensed by a manually operated pump or gravity fed valve. Other types of materials may also be gravity fed, or filled by use of a conveyor or other type of device. In all of these cases, the accuracy of filling is dependent on the operator. Of course, it is also labor intensive, as the operator is needed at all times to monitor the filling process. Industrial scales are perfect for monitoring the filling process. A bench scale is used to keep track of the weight during the filling process for smaller [+]

The weight values that are shown on the indicator of an industrial scale are of critical importance to the scale operator. A bench scale may be weighing small packages. Or a parts counting scale may be determining the number of parts in a container. Larger drum scales and platform scales may be determining the amount of liquid in a tank or dewar or drum. And large floor scales will be weighing totes, pallets and large tanks. Besides reading the weight information, the operator of the electronic scale can also perform certain control functions, such as applying a tare weight, zeroing the weight on the scale, and choosing the units of measurement, such as pounds or kilos. While it is required and expected that all digital scales provide all of this functionality [+]

For any wheelchair bound individual, the ease of use of items within their environment is critically important. Often, patients with limited mobility may need to have their weight monitored. This may be to insure that there is no significant loss in body weight due to improper nutritional intake. Alternatively, rapid weight gain may be a sign of build up of fluids caused by different types of medical issues. Wheelchair scales are used to accurately weigh these individuals. Some important features of this type of platform scale include a large platform size, making it easy and safe to position the wheelchair on the scale. The height of the top of the wheelchair scale should be as low as possible. This makes it easier for the patient to wheel themselves up a ramp [+]

An industrial scale is a wonderful instrument for determining the weight of an item. Bench scales accurately weigh small items. Depending on the capacity of the digital scale, the readability of the weight can be as small as 0.0001 lb. Platform scales weigh larger packages and drums up to 1000 lb, whereas floor scales and pallet scales can accepts loads up to 20,000 lb. The accuracy of the electronic scale is dependent on the type of technology used. High quality industrial strain gage scales have an accuracy range of approximately 1/10 of 1%. If greater accuracy is required, alternate ultra precision scales, such as Arlyn Scales Surface Acoustic Wave technology can provide ten or even twenty times better accuracy. But even an industrial scale with the best accuracy obtainable will not [+]