Using an industrial scale in a warehouse environment can reap many rewards, most significantly a drop in man hour and labour time. Whilst you may sometimes agree that industrial scales can be large, cumbersome and take up valuable warehouse space you can, these days, buy weighing scales that are light enough to be stored away when not in use and yet strong enough to withstand every day usage of 2 tonne pallets or more.
Beam scales are a good option to consider when space is limited. These are often made from two pieces of durable U-section steel and are light enough to be picked up and stored away when not needed. A cable will often connect the two beams together follewed by a second cable to take the signal from the beams to the weighing indicator. The indicators for such weighing equipment would more than likely be mains powered meaning you would need to use the beam scale somewhere near a mains socket, however battery powered indicators would give you the freedom of being able to use the scales anywhere and offer you the best in portability. Beam scales would also offer you the freedom of being able to weigh pretty much any size pallet or box by simply adjusting the distance between the beams. This is especially handy if you have many different size items to weigh.
For a more permanant fixture you may consider a larger industrial platform scale. These are commonly found to be around 1.2 metres square but can be produced to any size required. When pit-mounted, these scales would be able to offer you the advantage of simply driving your pallet onto the platform with a pallet truck or fork truck for complete ease of use.
For the ultimate amount of portability in a warehouse or industrial application, you could consider a pallet truck scale. These handy pieces of equipment look and act like a pallet truck but with the added benefit of a weighing scale being built into the chassis, therefore allowing you to take the scales to the weight rather than the weight to the scales, something which could save you hundreds of man hours.
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.
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