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Manage Hazardous Wastes with an Industrial Scale
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 [...]
Wheelchair Scales Offer Easy Access
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 [...]
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Using your Electronic Scale should be Easy
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 [...]
Industrial Scales Protected from Difficult Environments
No one ever said that it was easy to be an Industrial Scale. This type of electronic scale must be very accurate, or for certain demanding applications they must be ultra precise. They must be easy to use, so that even untrained users can obtain weights without errors. Digital industrial scales must be able to [...]
Industrial Scales Use the Internet to Send Data
The primary purpose of an industrial scale is to obtain weight data. For many applications, that data is used locally. For example, a shipping clerk may weight a package on a platform scale and write the weight directly into a shipping manifest. On the production line, a parts counting scale may be directly used to [...]
Accurate Cylinder Weighing on Cylinder Scales
Whenever the amount of a liquefied gas in a gas cylinder needs to be determined, a number of problems are uncovered. It would be reasonable to try to measure the contents by measuring the gas pressure. But liquefied gas tanks will show full pressure if there is any gas at all in the tank. This [...]
Large Loads Weighed on Floor Scales
A floor scale is a type of industrial scale that is usually used to weigh large items. This type of electronic scale can have a capacity ranging from about 2500 lb, up to a capacity of 20,000 lb. A typical platform size for these digital scales is 4’ x 4’, but there are any number [...]
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Save Time – Counting Scales Count by Weight
Counting parts by hand is inefficient, inaccurate and impractical. Whereas it may be suitable to count ten pieces into a package, it becomes cumbersome and unwieldy to count twenty five, fifty or one hundred pieces by hand. It becomes downright impossible to accurately count one thousand pieces or even more by hand. Parts counting scales [...]
Safe Scales for Unsafe Environments
Organizations go to great lengths to make certain that their work environments are safe, comfortable and efficient. Appropriate lighting is installed for proper visibility. Non slip surfaces are used if flooring can be wet or slick. Railings are constructed if there are areas that must be protected. Fire sprinklers and extinguishers are supplied to reduce [...]
Accurate Paint Mixing Requires Accurate Weighing