Tank and Hopper scales

Tank  and hopper scales are often used in storage, production or process area of the agriculture, chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, manufacturing and other process industries, where precise measurements is key.

Tank can be horizontal or vertical as well as symmetrical or non-symmetrical.  They can be part of a structure’s original design or can be added to an existing structure.  The right load cells under your hopper or tank allow weighing the weight of tanks / hoppers continuously.

We offer durable load cells for your tank and hopper scales that can handle a wide range of capacities.   We have scales that can accommodate batching and blending and load cells that can be remain reliable durable in harsh conditions.  The system allow you to measure your material right in your tank / hopper / bins, whether that material is wet or dry, even if your materials are not level in the tank, giving you the best chance of a more accurate measurement.  While there are methods other than tank scales to measure the contents of your filling bins, hoppers or tanks, quality load cells have proven time and time again to be some of the most efficient and accurate methods of weighing your product.

Weigh Module can be used to convert nearly any structure in to a scale.  Whether it is larger industrial tank scale or smaller version of the tank scales even those are place-able on a table the principle is the same.

The tank scale can also equipped with various interfaces in order to use the captured weighing data to record it or for control process includes several communication means such as data, RS232C, RS 485,    4-20mA, 0-10VDC,MODBUS, PROFIBUS ETC.

FEATURES / OPTIONS

• WIDE RANGE OF WEIGHT CAPACITIES
• MILD STEEL OR STAINLESS STEEL LOAD CELLS AND MOUNTING MODLES
• COMPRESSION WEIGH MODULES FOR STANDING TANK AND SILOS
• TENSION WEIGH MODLES FOR HANGING VESSELS AND HOPPERS
• STORAGE AND INVENTORY CONTROL
• FILLING
• BATCH PLANTS
• NEGATIVE FILLING

WHY DO YOU NEED TANK AND HOPPER SCALES?

Do you have tanks or hoppers in your business that are frequently filled with goods? Your business is of any significant size in industries can’t afford failure to accurately weigh your tank or hopper contents which can lead to issues like incorrect inventory data, problems with blending quality, overfilling, under-filling, wasted resources, unnecessary reorders and production interruptions.

If you’re trying to have a lean production process, with repeatable batches, good measuring data is crucial and having reliable, accurate tank / hopper scales can be a big part of that.  Being able to keep good track of the contents of those tanks and hoppers consistently can have a dramatic effect on the success or failure of your business.  This assures a safe work process and represents a good monitoring option.
 
FDWS has a team of application specialists who can work with you to generate custom weighing systems solutions to automate your tank and hopper scales to remotely manage current inventory, to let you know when to reorder, controlling batching processes, automating filling / mixing. 

Our Technicians bring the same care and level of precision to our tank and hopper scales as we do to all the other scales and weighing systems we provide for industries.

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