Weighing scales are used throughout countless different types of industry, for many different applications. For some of those applications, though, a standard weighing scale is not suitable and trade approved scales must be used. But what are trade approved scales,...
Important to so many industries and businesses, washdown and waterproof scales are often the most misunderstood. IP ratings can be difficult to understand and it can be tricky to know the level or protection that’s right for you. This comprehensive...
Once you’ve purchased a weighing scale or balance, it’s important to ensure that you continue to look after it to make sure it gives accurate weighing results with every use, and a key way of doing this is through calibration....
For many industries across the world, a reliable and accurate industrial scale is at the heart of everyday operations. From weighing large pallets in a shipyard to counting nuts and bolts in a factory, potential uses for industrial weighing scales...
Accuracy is essential for any weighing process, especially if you use sophisticated laboratory balances to creating medicines and supplements. To ensure that high precision weighing equipment remains accurate at all times, an anti-vibration table is essential. Equipment that is inaccurate...
What is calibration? Calibration is a process of ensuring and maintaining the accuracy of a weighing instrument in alignment with a standard or accepted range of results. Therefore weighing scale calibration is considered the process of correcting, determining and checking...
Regular external calibration is an essential part of balance maintenance whether you are regularly using your balance or only occasionally. The question above frequently comes up when a customer purchases balance and dutifully reads the operator's manual, which recommends calibration...
You may have seen 'OIML' mentioned in used in relation to weighing scales in the past - but was is it, and what does OIML stand for? OIML stands for Organisation Internationale de Metrologie Legale - or the International Organisation...
EC Type Approval can be granted to all electronic scales and most mechanical non-automatic weighing instruments (NAWI). The instrument has to meet the essential requirements contained in the EC Directive 90/384/EEC as amended, and implemented into UK Law under the...
