Industrial Scale Data Logging: USB, Google Sheets, and PC Recording

  The Arlyn UpScale can store weight records locally, export them to a USB flash drive, email data logs or send measurements to Google Sheets. The data collected by an industrial scale can be just as important as the weight shown on its display. Weight records may be used to document production, verify filling operations, … Continued

Scales and Balances: What is the Difference?

The terms scale and balance are often used interchangeably, and while they are both weighing machines, they serve different purposes and can function in different ways. Depending on what you’re weighing and your industry, one might be better suited for you than the other. Are you looking to distinguish between a scale and a balance … Continued

Intrinsically Safe Load Cells

Industrial environments come in every imaginable configuration. All of them must be kept safe from fire and explosion, but most do not need any special steps taken to achieve this goal. But others, by the nature of what they manufacture and how they do so, have special regulations to keep them safe. Dangerous situations can … Continued

Understanding Measurement Uncertainty In Weighing Scales & Instruments

It is easy to consider an industrial instrument to be a perfect machine that provides exact information. But every real-world system has limitations based on the machine itself, and the environment in which it is used. That is the case with voltmeters, flow meters, tachometers, thermometers, and weighing scales, where the weight sitting on the … Continued

Modbus Scales and Industrial Weighing Systems

Scales are designed to accept weight on the platform, and accurately provide a digital representation of that weight. In the most basic format, this weight will simply be shown on the readout display of the indicator. Often, though, the weight measurement is sent to another instrument or computer system for process control and system integration. … Continued

Digital Waterproof Scales for Outdoor Use

Depending on your industry and the environment you work in, having waterproof industrial scales can make a world of difference. You want your scale to last, and if you work with liquids or work somewhere outside like a shipyard, you don’t want to worry about water damage ruining the condition of your scale and leading … Continued

Types of Laboratory Scales

Arlyn high-resolution balances and Ultra Precision scales serve different laboratory capacity, readability and integration requirements. Laboratories use different weighing instruments because no single scale can provide every combination of capacity, readability, environmental protection and data functionality. A microbalance used for trace samples serves a very different purpose from an industrial bench scale used to weigh … Continued

What Is Intrinsic Safety?

Manufacturing facilities come in different sizes with different equipment and wiring. They use different processes and different materials to manufacture various end products. With hazardous environments, you need to factor in intrinsic safety. Most manufacturing work environments are quite benign. The materials being used are not hazardous, or poisonous, or caustic or corrosive. They are … Continued