Steel Scales

Introduction to steel scales

When it comes to precision and durability in the world of measurement, steel scales stand as a quintessential tool for professionals across various industries. As the backbone of accurate weighing and measuring, steel scales offer unparalleled strength and reliability, making them an invaluable asset in settings where precision is paramount. 

From the manufacturing floor to the laboratory, in warehouses, fishing boats, event venues, and countless other applications, steel scales play a crucial role in ensuring accurate measurements, maintaining quality control, and facilitating the efficient management of goods and materials across diverse industries.

Below, we’ll explore the various types of scales available in today’s market including the features that set them apart, the benefits they bring to different sectors, and how to select the perfect steel scale to match your specific needs.

Types of steel scales

Scales and other weighing devices can be made out of many different materials. But when it comes to heavy-duty, industrial-grade scales, steel reigns supreme as the material of choice.

Let’s look at the various types of steel scales available: 

1. Industrial platform scales: These scales come in various sizes and capacities and can handle loads from a few pounds to several tons. Platform scales are designed for weighing large or bulky items, such as steel beams, bars, or plates.
2. Bench scales: These are smaller scales used for weighing lightweight components. They are referred to as bench scales because they can be placed on a benchtop or similar work surface. These types of scales are useful for smaller steel items or when precision weighing is required.
3. Truck scales: Also known as weighbridges, these large scales are used to weigh entire vehicles and their contents. The vehicle drives onto the scale, and the weight is measured and recorded.
4. Crane scales: Used across many industries, crane scales are suspended from a crane or hoist and are used to weigh items that are too large or heavy to be placed on a traditional scale. They’re often the most practical choice in that they free up valuable floor space when compared to platform scales.

Uses for steel scales

At Eilon Engineering, we have decades of experience in the field of weighing during lifting. Our weighing systems have been used across sectors on a wide variety of projects and applications, including:

1. Loading and unloading cargo: Used at docks or warehouses to weigh goods as they are loaded or offloaded from ships, trucks, or trains.
2. Manufacturing: In manufacturing facilities where components must meet certain weight specifications before assembly into larger units (e.g., automotive), crane scales ensure that parts comply with set standards.
3. Inventory management: To verify the weight of incoming raw materials or outgoing products against shipment documents.
4.  Construction sites: Used by builders to determine weights when installing prefabricated sections such as beams. They also help maintain safety protocols by ensuring lifts do not exceed a crane’s lifting capacity.
5. Foundries: Used to verify and control the amount of additives, thus preventing waste and giving the foundry greater control over the composition of their metal.
6. Overload prevention: By allowing operators to know the exact weight at every moment of the lift, crane scales are an important tool in preventing dangerous overload and avoiding accidents.
7. Fishing industry: Commercial fishing enterprises use crane scales to accurately weigh large catches directly on the vessel or at the dock, ensuring compliance with regulations and proper inventory management.

Aerospace-grade steel

For five decades, our reputation for excellence has been built on quality and safety. That’s why all of our load cell bodies—the weight-bearing element—are manufactured exclusively of high-quality, aerospace-grade steel.

As a crane scale manufacturer with a strong commitment to safety, we also ensure that all of our load cells are fatigue-rated. This means the system can withstand an unlimited number of load cycles, so long as it has never been overloaded.

Further, our R&D, manufacturing, and calibration laboratory are certified according to the ISO 9001 total quality management standard and audited on-site by Lloyd’s Register LRQA.

Wireless Dynamometers

As part of our commitment to innovation, Eilon pioneered the use of wireless technology in our weighing systems starting in 1993. Since then, we’ve continued to develop this technology in our wireless dynamometers and wireless load cells.

Our wireless dynamometers use radio frequency (RF) to transmit the load measurement from the steel scale to a remote indicator, both increasing safety and allowing the system’s operator more freedom of movement. 

But our innovation didn’t stop there. In the years that followed, we harnessed RF technology to create our first multi-point weighing and load monitoring systems.

Multi-Point weighing systems

In 2005, we combined our knowledge in advanced wireless communication with our proven load cell technology and developed advanced load monitoring and overload prevention systems using multi-point load cells: the Ron StageMaster and Ron CraneMaster.

These systems quickly gained international recognition winning innovation awards at major trade shows. Since then, Ron StageMaster systems have been chosen by venues, world tours, and rigging companies from around the globe.

Not only do our multi-point systems incorporate the same high quality steel wireless load cells, but we’ve continued to innovate and improve our wireless communication. A few years back, we released a new addition to our line of receivers with a handheld Portable Radio Receiver. 

This allows for the simultaneous transmission of measurement data from up to 75 load cells to any smartphone or tablet. The loads can be displayed as a real-time load map, table, or bar graph giving operators ultimate freedom when monitoring large and complex rigs.

Learn more about steel scales and weighing systems

With close to five decades in the business, Eilon Engineering is a trusted name when it comes to manufacturing high-quality steel weighing systems. 

Give us a call or write to us today and one of our experienced representatives will be happy to help you find the weighing system that’s right for your unique application.

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