Why You Should Favour Trusted Brands when Purchasing Industrial Equipment
When purchasing industrial equipment, sticking with the most trusted brands is invariably the best way to guarantee the required performance levels. Naturally, everyone would like to ensure the items they buy are of the best possible quality. However, in some cases, quality is not merely desirable but crucial. For example, if you which to keep a tally of a young child’s growth, a tape measure and a pencil to make marks on a wall should be more than adequate. However, determining the mass of an item to within one-hundredth of a gram will require using a precision weighing instrument.
It takes time, money and intensive research and devolvement on a manufacturer’s part to gain widespread trust. It so happens that these are also the requirements for developing ultra-precise machinery, such as that employed in industries like pharmaceuticals. One sweet, more or less in a kilo of the pick ‘n’ mix from your local supermarket, is of little consequence. However, an error of just a milligram or two when filling a medication capsule could result in severe side effects or even fatalities. When purchasing industrial equipment from the world’s most trusted brands, such dangerous potential errors cease to be a problem.
Precision
Although it is common practice to use the terms ‘weight’ and ‘mass’ interchangeably, they are not, in fact, identical but two different qualities of an item. In practice, weight is the product of the mass of an object and the gravitational force acting upon it. If the earth were a perfect sphere, the effect of gravity would have no consequence, and the weight of an object would be the same at any point on its surface. However, our planet is an oblate spheroid, flattened in parts, resulting in weight variations. Quality industrial equipment is designed to measure mass by taking into account any local variations in the gravitational force.
Consequently, they will always indicate an accurate weight regardless of where they might be employed. Such precision weighing devices are the speciality of top brands such as DIGI. This manufacturer’s wide range of weighing machines is available to industries in Southern Africa, exclusively from Teraoka.
Purpose-built
Another good reason to favour the industry leaders is that they are the best source of purpose-built machinery. A wholesale butcher or abattoir would struggle to weigh carcasses on a countertop scale. By contrast, a dedicated industrial equipment supplier can offer these users a tool designed specifically for this task. For such purposes, DIGI offers a choice of two tailor-made solutions. The simplest is a compact scale with a platform that can be folded away when not in use. While its use requires physically handling the carcasses, it is the less expensive option. DIGI offers an overhead track scale for a more automated approach. The unit integrates seamlessly with the user’s existing track system allowing the carcasses to be weighed without removing them.
Versatility
While industrial equipment is widely used for weighing, it is often adapted to perform alternative or additional functions. For example, if the weight of an individual item is known, that figure can be stored in a suitable electronic scale’s memory and used later to count the number of the specified objects in a batch. Once calibrated, the scale can be used to monitor the accuracy of filling systems by verifying the number of nuts and bolts in a pack and similar tasks.
Logistic companies and their clients often require to know an item’s dimensions in addition to its weight. Industrial equipment from DIGI includes two dimensioning scales. These instruments can provide the additional information necessary to judge how many items can be transported in a given container or calculate any relevant postal or courier charges. It is the ideal tool for busy receiving and distribution centres, saving time and effort by combining the weighing and measuring processes in a single, quick, yet highly-accurate action. The SPK-3000 is the more advanced of the two DIGI models and is also suitable for measuring irregularly shaped objects.
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Dependable Industrial Equipment
Dependability is the most important reason for purchasing industrial equipment from a trusted brand. You can be assured that every item has been checked and accurately calibrated before it leaves the factory. You will also be assured that your warranty will be more than an obligatory piece of paperwork in the unlikely event of a problem.
Johannesburg-based Teraoka is Southern Africa’s trusted source of electronic weighing and dimensioning scales, inspection systems, wrapping and labelling systems, thermal printers and related consumables. Please feel free to explore our range of trusted industrial equipment or contact us for more information.