When counting parts or pieces by hand you will often find that it can be a tiresome and inaccurate job by anyones standards.  Imagine then having the luxury available to you to simply tell a scale what each individual piece weighs and then it doing the counting for you.  This luxury need not be expensive with a vast range of recently launched counting scales onto the market.

Counting scales can come in all different shapes and sizes, but typically are large enough to fit on a desk and have three displays on the front.  Each individual display tells you something different, but each add up to provide you with the same time and cost saving information.  You will normally have one display telling you the overall weight, one telling you the piece weight and one telling you the quantity counted.

Most counting scales will give you the facility to tell the scale how much each individual item weighs as well as the often preferred method of adding a sample quantity to the platform.  The latter simply requires you to put, for instance, ten items on the scale followed by a key press to tell the scale that there are ten items present.  The scale will then do the maths necessary to work out how much each individual item weighs and will proceed to count accurately for you.  As with any mathematics involved, the higher the sample quantity the more accurate the piece weight will be and therefore the more accurate your counting will be.

In some instances the counting scale will have a second scale input.  This allows you to attach, as an example, an industrial weigh beam scale.  With the second scale attached you can switch between scale 1 or scale 2 on the display and have parts counting abilities on either scale.  This can be especially useful when some items you are counting need finer accuracy and lower capacity which you would use the desk mounted scale for, or switch to the larger beam scale for counting heavier items on pallets.

We hope this article is of some use to you, but as always please feel free to call us or visit www.scalesonline.co.uk for further information if and when you need it.