WatchingYour Weight

摘要

In industries from mining and manufacturing to construction, transportation and agriculture, the need to weigh or measure inputs, outputs and applied force has grown in recent decades to improve production safety and control costs. "Design engineers are responding as complex systems such as mine lift equipment, construction cranes, industrial tanks, grain silos and locomotives - which may have lacked weight or force-sensing capability in the past - are being upgraded to include load pins, load cells and tension cells," says Riley Phillips, a mechanical designer at Massload, a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based manufacturer of weighing systems. "These sophisticated weight- and force-sensing devices can help maximize production load efficiency, while offering some of the enhanced safety features that are increasingly required by regulation, such as automatic shutdown if a load exceeds capacity."