Laundry Weighing Scales for Hospitals

When you think about hospitals, you often think of sickness, emergency rooms, doctors and other things, but rarely do you think about laundry.  The reality is that hospitals go through as much, if not more laundry than your average corner Laundromat. The Wyoming Medical Center reported that their laundry facility cleaned roughly 3,000-5,000 pounds of … Continued

Digital Scales You Can Connect to the Internet

Collecting weight data is an integral part of the weighing process. By monitoring and analyzing data, businesses can control quality, automate tasks, minimize waste and improve efficiency. Connecting a scale to the internet facilitates how employees can access and utilize data. Ethernet Ethernet is the most widely used local area network (LAN) technology. A wired … Continued

Industrial Scales with Computer Ports

Weighing is an integral part of many industrial processes. It facilitates quality control, automates a variety of tasks and minimizes waste. It can even be used to manage large inventories of small pieces and parts. To ensure that everything is running efficiently, weight data is often collected and transferred to an external device for storage … Continued

Floor and Pallet Scales for Warehousing Solutions

The warehouse environment can be pretty extreme. From inconsistent temperatures, moisture and corrosive materials, finding a weighing scale that’s durable and accurate can be a particular challenge. Arlyn Scales manufactures floor and pallet scales specifically for these types of industrial conditions. We use only best of class components including stainless steel load cells, advanced digital … Continued

Weighing in the Waste and Recycling Industry: A Guide

Weight data is an integral part of every waste management and recycling facilities’ operations because it keeps them compliant with local, state and federal legislation and maintains operational efficiency. Weight data allows these facilities to track amounts of garbage collected, monitor inputs and outputs during materials recovery and to extract energy and dispose of waste. … Continued

Accurate and Simple Ways to Measure Rainfall

Rain and snow are an integral part of the earth’s ecosystem. Snow helps regulate surface temperature. Once it melts, it helps fill many rivers and reservoirs all around the world. Rainfall waters our crops and helps things grow. Rain measurements in a local area are just as important to an agricultural department as they are … Continued

High Capacity Hanging Crane Scales

If you need to determine the shipping weight of a large refrigeration case, weigh large zoo animals or weigh totes as they are removed from a shipping container, a regular platform scale will likely be of little use. Lifting, force measurement and hang weighing applications all require a special type of scale. Typically suspended from … Continued

The High Precision of Industrial Bench Scales

Bench scales are commonly used in food, chemical, shipping and receiving, medical, pharmaceutical and retail industries. They’re also commonly used for small parts counting. When a company is in the market for a new bench scale, they have two predominant weighing technologies to choose from — strain gage and force motor. The decision will ultimately … Continued

Sartorius Scales vs Arlyn SAW Precision Scales

Sartorius is one of the world’s leading providers of laboratory and process technologies and equipment. With many customers in the biotech, pharma and food industries as well as public research institutes and laboratories, their precision balances are trusted for quality and accuracy. But what if we told you there was a better, cheaper alternative to … Continued

Load Cell Technology: Strain Gage vs SAW Transducers

The load cell is one of the most important internal components of an industrial scale because it’s the device responsible for the accuracy of your measurements. It’s a type of transducer (a device that converts one form of energy into another) that translates force into an electrical signal. Strain Gage Load Cells: The Most Common … Continued