Showing posts with label process weighing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label process weighing. Show all posts

Mastering Industrial Efficiency: Ives Equipment in Process Weighing


Process weighing is essential in manufacturing and industrial applications. It ensures that products meet specific quality and safety standards. Even slight weight variations can significantly influence the product's quality, safety, and effectiveness in industries where accuracy is critical.

There are two primary methods of process weighing: continuous and static.


Continuous weighing monitors materials as they continuously flow through a system. This method is prevalent in industries that handle bulk materials, such as the food, beverage, or chemical sectors, where raw materials consistently move through production lines. Continuous weighing ensures consistency in the quantity and quality of materials throughout production.

In contrast, static weighing focuses on weighing stationary items and is used when products need validation against a particular weight or standard. For instance, in packaging, static weighing ensures that packages have the correct product quantity before being sent to customers.

Batching technology ensures that products or raw materials are grouped into specific, predetermined amounts in tandem with these weighing techniques. Batching provides the right mix of components in sectors where various ingredients form a product, resulting in uniform product quality. This process is especially vital in the food and pharmaceutical sectors, where precision and consistency are crucial for health and safety.

In summary, process weighing is a determining factor in the industrial realm, assuring product quality, safety, and efficiency. Leveraging the technological strengths of Ives industrial weighing systems, industries can achieve the meticulousness and dependability necessary to thrive in the competitive marketplace.

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Siemens SIWAREX WT231 and WT241 Weighing Terminals

The SIWAREX WT231 and WT241  are weighing terminals for industrial use. Siemens standard components are installed in a stainless steel enclosure with numerous connection options. This ensures the tried and tested SIWAREX quality as standalone solution and is ideal for container weighers or platform scales.

SIWAREX is the optimum solution wherever strain gauge sensors, such as load cells, force sensors or torque measuring shafts, are used for measuring tasks. The typical applications of SIWAREX  are:
  • Non-automatic scales
  • Fill level monitoring of silos and bunkers
  • Measuring of crane and cable loads
  • Load measuring for industrial lifts and rolling mills
  • Force measuring, container weighers, platform scales and crane scales
SIWAREX offers the following key advantages:
  • Complete solution – no configuration in SIMATIC required
  • Fast and easy commissioning due to intuitive operating concept
  • The stainless steel enclosure permits applications in many diverse environments
  • Integrated connecting terminals for up to 4 load cells
  • Flexible connection to different systems through diverse interfaces
    • - four digital inputs
    • - four digital outputs
    • - one analog output
    • - RS 485 interface and Modbus RTU
  • High resolution of the load cell signal of up to ± 4 million parts
  • Comprehensive diagnostics functions
  • Recovery-point for the simple restoration of all parameters
  • Automatic calibration is possible without the need for calibration weights
  • All diagnostic and error messages as well as all scale parameters in plain text
  • 100-240 VAC supply range

Contact Ives Equipment by calling 877-768-1600 of by visiting https://ivesequipment.com.