What are the development trends of electronic belt scales?

In various industrial production activities, enterprises often hope that weighing and metering can be completed simultaneously during normal operations, meaning that metering does not occupy or minimally occupies downtime, so as not to delay production.

In some scenarios, such as weighing and metering goods at ports, in order not to affect the material loading and unloading speed, weighing and metering are often required to be completed during the material conveyance process.

This type of weighing and metering is accomplished while the material is in motion during conveyance, and electronic belt scales are a typical application for this purpose.

They are used to complete the weighing and metering of bulk solid materials conveyed by belt conveyors without the need for shutdown, fully ensuring the continuity and efficiency of production activities. With the development of industrial production, automation technology, and dynamic weighing technology, electronic belt scales have also seen significant advancements.

From the inception of electronic belt scales to their current development, their overall development trends are miniaturization, modularization, intelligence, and comprehensiveness, with performance technologies trending towards high precision, high stability, and high reliability, and functionalities trending towards diversification, intelligence, and informatization, with more comprehensive and combined application performances.

1. Miniaturization

   Electronic belt scales are trending towards miniaturization in structure, meaning they are becoming smaller in volume, lighter in weight, and simpler in structure.

They have evolved from mechanical types to lever types, then to fully suspended types, and further to beamless, leverless, and combined fully suspended scale frames. Electronic belt scales have been continuously simplifying their force-bearing and transmission mechanisms, reducing the mechanical structure and moving parts of the scale body.

This development trend makes electronic belt scales more convenient for transportation, requires less space for installation and application, has a smaller impact on weighing from their own weight and mechanical components, reduces errors and losses caused by force transmission during weighing, and enhances their adaptability to belt conveyors and production conditions.

2. Modularization

   Whether it is the lever-type electronic belt scale or the fully suspended electronic belt scale with crossbeams, their structures are fixed.

Currently, the new combined electronic belt scale adopts a modular structure, utilizing two groups of weighing rollers equipped with four high-precision weighing sensors as a standard structural module, which can be arranged in a matrix to form a new structural specification. This modular electronic belt scale can be freely combined according to the conditions of the belt conveyor and user needs, selecting multiple specifications.

This modular scale body structure not only improves the universality, precision, reliability, stability, and flexibility of electronic belt scales but also significantly reduces user maintenance costs.

3. Intelligence

   The display and control instruments of electronic belt scales are combined with electronic computers, utilizing the intelligence of computers to enhance the functions of the instruments.

On the basis of the original functions of receiving and processing signals, computing, displaying, and querying, additional functions such as online monitoring, intelligent diagnosis and analysis, fault judgment, and online zeroing and calibration are added.

4. Comprehensiveness

   In addition to continuously strengthening research on the precision, stability, and reliability of weighing and metering, electronic belt scales are not satisfied with merely having functions such as metering weighing, data display, and printing.

They are continuously expanding new application areas on the basis of these basic functions, enriching their application functionalities, and playing a greater value role. For example, electronic belt scales are integrated with automation control and computer technology to create rapid loading/shipping systems for belt scales.

In the coal mining industry, on the basis of accurate and real-time production weighing, a belt scale production monitoring system is created, or data is provided for the existing monitoring systems in coal mines. The weighing system of electronic belt scales is integrated with computers and other technologies to form a complete systematic solution.

The Guonuo Technology matrix belt scale can be considered a representative of the development trends of electronic belt scales, featuring a modular combined scale frame structure, equipped with digital weighing sensors and intelligent instruments, capable of achieving high-precision, high-stability, and high-reliability weighing and metering goals, possessing rich intelligent functions, and able to provide users with upper computer software systems or integrate with production operation systems.