Manufacturers rely on precise weight measurements to make informed decisions throughout the product life cycle. From design and testing to production and distribution, accurate weight data is crucial for meeting product specifications, optimizing processes, and ensuring quality control.
Weighing sensors and indicators plays a vital role in this process, providing valuable insights at every stage: analyzing components in R&D, monitoring weight during production, verifying product weight against specifications, tracking inventory levels, and ensuring accurate measurements for shipping.
Modern weighing solutions, often enhanced with IoT technology, provide manufacturers with real-time data and remote monitoring capabilities. This translates to streamlined processes, reduced waste, and improved efficiency.
Manufacturers can enhance quality control by identifying and addressing real-time variations and ensuring consistent product quality. Furthermore, access to this data empowers manufacturers to make informed, data-driven decisions that optimize operations and boost overall productivity.
Weight of Force Sensing and Instrumentation Pairing
Precision force sensing solutions and instrumentation allow product engineers and manufacturers to collect this vital real-time data for weighing applications. Interface provides weighing sensor technologies and weight indicators to meet diverse manufacturing needs.
Our weighing measurement solutions, combined with instrumentation, use various communication methods, including analog, digital, wireless, and cloud-based, to allow users to gather data in-facility or remotely.
Weighing indicators are valuable tools paired with load cells to measure, analyze, and monitor weight accurately, in real-time, and for continuous monitoring. A load cell weight indicator is a high-accuracy device connected to the output of a load cell to amplify and display the value of the measured load force and weight.
Load Cell Weight Indicator Standard Features
Programmable
Analog, Digital, and Relay Outputs
Large Displays
Bidirectional Capabilities
Multiple Sensor Connections
Filtering
Peak and Valley Monitoring
Key benefits of indicators include providing stable excitation voltage and converting force measurement sensor signals to a digital display. Commonly available features include analog or digital output and selectable digital filtering.
Interface weight indicators offer advanced weighing functions such as batching and relay setpoints. They can read and display multiple scales simultaneously and provide versatility by connecting to external systems using various communication protocols.
Popular Interface Weight Indicators
Interface’s popular model 920i is bidirectional and comes in a NEMA 4X stainless enclosure. It displays up to four scale channels per screen and has 60 configurable operator prompts. Standard options include 8,000,000 internal counts, a 4.6 x 3.4-inch LCD 7-digit display, and a measurement rate of up to 960 Hz. Available options include analog and relay outputs.
The new Interface 4850 Digital Indicator is a wireless capable digital indicator housed in a stainless steel NEMA 4X enclosure. It has a large 0.8” LCD for easy readout of up to 50,000 display divisions and can drive up to eight 350 load cells. All setup parameters may be entered via the front panel keys. A full duplex RS-232 port or optional Bluetooth module can transmit data on demand or continuously to match the input requirements of various peripheral devices, including printers, remote displays, and computers. This is a high-quality instrumentation solution with Bluetooth capabilities. Options for analog output: 16-bit, 0-5 VDC, 4-20 mA, and built-in relays (6V or 12V).
Interface model 482 weight indicator is battery-powered, bidirectional, and comes in a NEMA 4X stainless enclosure. Standard options include 523,000 internal counts, a 0.8-inch LCD 6-digit display, and a measurement rate of up to 40 Hz. Available options include analog and relay outputs.
The Interface 1280 Series programmable digital weight indicator with color touchscreen, web server view, and multiple protocol types delivers uncompromising speed for today’s operations and expansive options for tomorrow’s requirements. Check out this quick product video.
The Interface INF4-Ethernet IP weight transmitter and indicator has a six-digit red LED display (8 mm height), a compact design that saves space, four buttons for system calibration, and a six-indicator LED.
Interface Weighing Application Solutions
Manufacturers use weight to make critical decisions during design, testing, production, and distribution. Defined weight standards are used in most product specifications, which require measurement accuracy.
Interface sensors used for weighing applications include our LowProfile® Load Cells, Load Beam Cells, Platform Scale Load Cells, Load Pins, Tension Link and Wireless Link Load Cells, Load Shakeckles and Wireless Load Shackles, Pillow Block Load Cells, Indicators, Weighing Instrumentation, our Wireless and Bluetooth products, and a range of accessories.
Interface offers weighing solutions that are standard products and engineered to order for weighing use cases like our Weighing Review Award nominated WeighCheck™ Load Cells.
TIP: Use our Weighing Solutions online product guide to source the right sensor and indicator solution for your applications.
Interface’s weighing solutions include single and multiple sensor systems, depending on the application requirements. Our sensors are used for commercial weighing products, industrial weighing in manufacturing processes and quality monitoring, and precision weighing in laboratories and research settings for highly accurate weight measurements. Read: Interface Weighing Solutions and Complete Systems
Weighing sensors are commonly used throughout the product life cycle, from R&D to transportation. Valuable insights are developed in weighing individual parts or components in equipment and machines, measuring weight during assembly and production, weighing ingredients in food and chemical processes, weighing products during distribution, and weighing before and during stocking.
Interface provides wired and wireless sensors, data acquisition systems, weight indicators, displays and transmitters, software solutions, and accessories. A review of many of these weighing solutions and applications is detailed in our recorded Weighing Your Options Webinar.
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