Development Trends of Electronic Belt Scales: Miniaturization, Modularization, Intelligence, and Comprehensiveness

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 speed of material loading and unloading, weighing is 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.

They are used for weighing and metering 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, the overall trend is towards miniaturization, modularization, intelligence, and comprehensiveness, with performance characteristics tending towards high precision, high stability, and high reliability, and functional characteristics tending towards diversification, intelligence, and informatization, with more comprehensive and combined application performance.

1. Miniaturization

Electronic belt scales are trending towards miniaturization in terms of structure, meaning they are becoming smaller in size, lighter in weight, and simpler in structure. They have evolved from mechanical types to lever types, then to fully suspended types, and further to combination types with no crossbeams, no levers, and 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, reduces the impact of the scale's own weight and mechanical components on weighing, minimizes errors and losses caused by force transmission during weighing, and enhances their adaptability to belt conveyors and production conditions.

2. Modularization

Both lever-type electronic belt scales and fully suspended electronic belt scales with crossbeams have fixed structures. However, the current new type of combination electronic belt scale adopts a modular structure.

It uses a standard structural module consisting of two sets of weighing rollers equipped with four high-precision weighing sensors, which can be arranged in a matrix to form new structural specifications.

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 instrument functions. In addition to the original functions of receiving and processing signals, computing, displaying, and querying, new functions such as online monitoring, intelligent diagnosis and analysis, fault judgment, and online zeroing and calibration have been added.

4. Comprehensiveness

In addition to continuously strengthening research on the accuracy, stability, and reliability of weighing and metering, electronic belt scales are no longer sufficient with just metering, weighing, data display, and printing functions.

They are constantly expanding new application areas and enriching their functions to play a greater 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, based on accurate and real-time production weighing, belt scale production monitoring systems are created, or data is provided for existing monitoring systems in coal mines. The weighing system of electronic belt scales is integrated with other technologies such as computers 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 combination 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.