To help commemorate Adam Equipment’s 40th anniversary, Adam Equipment has pledged a financial contribution to support the expansion of the Star School in Rwanda, through the Mission Possible global initiative. In an effort to increase the number of students taught in the primary and secondary classrooms, the school sought to increase the building capacity through… Read More »
The Mine Safety and Health Administration or MSHA (nicknamed “emshaw”) is the government organization that oversees safety at mines, quarries, and related industries. MSHA is headquartered in Arlington, VA, with district offices at six locations around the United States. There are presently over 850 inspectors within MSHA. How does MSHA impact scales and the scale industry?… Read More »
If you have a Rice Lake Cargo Lift Scale (CLS) on your forklift. Do you always have to have the forks perfectly level when taking a weight reading? Until recently, Rice Lake CLS systems have been NTEP approved to +/- 3 degrees from level, and anything outside of that range would not display a weight.… Read More »
From time to time, someone will contact us looking to start a business buying back gold jewelry from customers. With the price of gold recently it’s becoming more popular than ever. However, there are some real important things to consider. The scale being used to weigh the gold needs to be a precise and accurate… Read More »
Updated April 2022 We get this question quite often, so straight from the UPS website, here is what they list as the supported scales that connect to their Worldship software. We actually use Worldship software and the Mettler Toledo PS60 in our shipping department and it works great. If you purchase a scale these days,… Read More »
Cardinal Scale’s new CenterPoint series Tank and Hopper Weighing Systems utilize double-ended shear beam stainless steel load cells with center load design for optimum efficiency in mixing, blending, batching, inventory control, and general weighing. The bolt-in-place mounting assembly with articulating top plate makes them ideal for indoor or outdoor weighing applications. Available in three or four legged… Read More »
Rice Lake utilizes a piezo-type keypad in the CW-90X Checkweigher. These keypads are considerably thicker than traditional overlays and use piezoelectric principles, where pressure creates a mechanical charge within a crystalline layer of the product. You do not notice a tactile sensation of a dome being pushed as with many other keypads. But in the… Read More »
Greater than a digital weight indicator and more than a counting scale, Counterpart from Rice Lake stands alone as a configurable counting indicator, capable of transforming just about any scale platform into a smart piece-counting device-for parts of just about every size and shape. In contrast to classic counting scales, Counterpart uses Rice Lake’s basic… Read More »
The newest addition to the Rice Lake Weighing Systems medical line is thinking ahead, acknowledging the needs of current and future Electronic Medical Record (EMR) requirements. The Rice Lake Digital Physician Scale (150-10-5) is one of few medical scales on the market that can be connected to a PC through a built-in USB port. But… Read More »
There is more to a load cell than is it an alloy steel load cell or stainless steel load cell? Load cells also have a lot of different sealing types. What’s the difference? How do you choose what load cell to buy? The majority of us aren’t industry experts on load cell production. But when… Read More »