Harbor Freight Scales: Loading Ship Cargo with Ease

Docks are naturally wet environments, which mean you need a scale that can stand up to moisture. You also need reliable accuracy to ensure that there is no variance between the stated and actual shipping weights of each container to ensure that the maximum capacity of the cargo ship isn’t breached and that the load … Continued

High Capacity Digital Hanging Scales for Civil Engineering Projects

Civil engineers are responsible for designing, constructing and maintaining roads, bridges, canals, dams and buildings as well as many other construction projects and systems. The materials they work with are often large and heavy, and must be weighed before they are placed to ensure that each part of the system meets the project’s overall weight … Continued

Precision Weighing Balances for Laboratories and Research Facilities

Nothing is more important than accuracy when it comes to conducting experiments, running tests, and formulating new products. Everything must be exact so results can be duplicated. And while precision weighing balances are an important part of this process, it can be difficult to find a truly reliable scale from a manufacturer you can trust. … Continued

Most Accurate Ways to Calculate the Weight of Animals

Whether you’re a farmer, veterinarian, zookeeper or kennel owner, monitoring the health of the animals you care for requires you to periodically take their weight. Determining a proper diet or the dose for a particular medicine requires it. A standard dose for a small animal may be completely ineffective for a larger one. A standard … Continued

Decrease Check-In Times With a New Baggage Weighing System

Busy airports need to weigh baggage quickly and accurately without compromising the quality of their customer service. When a passenger’s luggage is overweight, they’ll spend extra time rearranging their belongings before they pay a fee for an overweight bag. This causes much longer wait times for other passengers and can be frustrating for staff as … Continued

Choosing the Right Wheelchair Scale for Your Medical Center

Physicians know that patients who are unable to maintain a healthy body weight are at a higher risk for certain diseases and complications including: •    Diabetes •    Heart disease •    Lung disorders •    Osteoporosis •    Weakened immune systems •    Respiratory problems The increased risk makes monitoring the weight of patients an important part of healthcare. … Continued

Integrating Weighing Equipment to Processes: Analog vs Digital Outputs

Weighing is an integral part of many industrial processes. Scales are often used to facilitate quality control, automate tasks, and minimize waste. Sometimes they’re even used to monitor large inventories of small parts. Weight data is often collected and transferred to an external device for storage and analysis to ensure that a system is running … Continued

Counting Scales With Network Compatibility

Digital counting scales are the perfect solution when counting by hand becomes impractical. These devices convert the weight of multiple parts into the number of individual items in the batch, which makes the inventory process a lot faster and easier. Yet choosing one of these scales isn’t as straightforward as it may seem. You need … Continued

Custom Weighing Scales Manufacturer in the USA

Buying a scale is generally a simple process. You determine the maximum capacity, accuracy and platform size you need, find a supplier and make a purchase. But if you need a non-standard platform size, better resolution, corrosion resistant properties or a specific output to transfer data or a completely custom weighing solution, most suppliers won’t … Continued

Time Saving and Efficient Parts Counting Scales

Tracking an inventory of small parts can be a real hassle if you don’t have a reliable parts counting scale. These devices can convert the weight of a batch of parts into the number of individual pieces in that batch. Yet finding a scale with the features you need isn’t always a straightforward task. How … Continued

Optimize Your Business’s Performance With Customized High-Resolution Scales

Many times, purchasing a scale for your business isn’t a very complicated process.  You simply determine the maximum capacity, accuracy and platform size that you need, find a scale manufacturer and make a purchase. If your business requires that you use a non-standard platform sized scale or you need superior resolution, a specific data output, … Continued

How to Maintain an Industrial Scale

In the past, maintaining industrial scales was expensive and time consuming.  Keeping up with the necessary maintenance requirements of industrial scales varies greatly by manufacturer. At Arlyn Scales, we’ve worked extremely hard to design and build scales that require as little maintenance as possible to ensure that you’re not commonly dealing with downtime due to … Continued