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7 Solutions for Improved Weighing Automation

7 Solutions for Improved Weighing Automation
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7 Solutions for Improved Weighing Automation

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Introduction
The document explores solutions for enhancing weighing automation across various industries, emphasizing improvements in efficiency, safety, and quality control. It underscores the significance of high-precision weighing systems in manufacturing, particularly in battery production and pharmaceutical filling.
High-Precision Weighing in Battery Production
Manufacturers are urged to adopt highly automated production lines to meet the increasing demand for battery cells. High-precision weighing systems are vital for ensuring accurate measurements, which boost production efficiency. Key parameters such as electrode material density and purity must be controlled to prevent defects and ensure safety.
Filling and Dispensing in Pharmaceuticals
The document highlights the use of WMS weigh modules in pharmaceutical filling machines for precise and rapid weighing of vials. This technology supports high throughput and compliance with industry standards, with the WMS1203C module noted for its high readability and capacity.
Improving Machine Performance
Efficient dispenser calibration is crucial for precise LED color and purity. WKC weigh modules provide accurate feedback for dispenser valve adjustments, ensuring consistent silicone phosphor dispensing, reducing power consumption, and maintaining quality standards.
Portable Calibration Solutions
Hamilton Bonaduz AG employs portable WXS weigh modules to verify pipetting accuracy in automated liquid-handling solutions. These modules are praised for their robust design and high-resolution capabilities, ensuring optimal performance in laboratory instruments.
Conclusion
The document emphasizes the critical role of advanced weighing technology in enhancing production efficiency, quality control, and safety across industries. METTLER TOLEDO's solutions are presented as reliable tools for meeting modern manufacturing demands.
Overview of METTLER TOLEDO Weighing Solutions
1. Introduction to Weighing Modules
METTLER TOLEDO offers advanced weighing modules designed for high safety and accuracy in liquid pipetting systems, featuring integrated calibration weights for performance verification.
2. Specifications of WXS Weigh Modules
  • Capacity: 22 g to 220 g
  • Readabilities: 1 μg to 0.1 mg
  • Features: Internal calibration, fast update rate, stainless steel housing, and connectivity options including RS232 and Ethernet.
3. Compact Robot for Pipette Calibration
A compact robot cell by Asyril SA integrates a small-sized weigh module for efficient pipette calibration and sample weighing, allowing automated handling without operator intervention.
4. Automatic Preparation of Cytostatic Drugs
Loccioni humancare's APOTECAchemo system automates chemotherapeutic drug preparation using METTLER TOLEDO's high-precision weigh modules for accurate dosing and safety.
5. Agilent's Sample Prep WorkBench
Agilent's 7696A Sample Prep WorkBench incorporates METTLER TOLEDO's WMC weigh module for precise sample preparation, enhancing efficiency and reducing chemical waste.
6. Considerations for Batch Control Systems
Designing a batch control system requires careful component selection. METTLER TOLEDO provides solutions for both manual and automatic systems, emphasizing tailored approaches.
7. In-Process and End-of-Line Quality Control
Weighing is a reliable method for quality control, offering high throughput and precision. METTLER TOLEDO's weigh modules support in-line testing with narrow tolerance windows.
Advantages of Gravimetric Level Control
Gravimetric level control offers high accuracy for inventory control, ideal for high-value materials. It prevents contamination and is independent of tank shape and material properties.
Tank Scale Design and Installation
Proper design and installation are crucial for effective tank/silo weighing systems, ensuring minimal material handling and optimal performance.
Weighing Terminals and Transmitters
These components are vital for accurate data collection and transmission, ensuring reliable inventory control.
Maintenance
A well-designed system requires minimal maintenance, typically on a one-year cycle, providing decades of reliable service.
Summary
Tank/silo weighing systems offer high accuracy, low maintenance, and contamination prevention. Proper design and installation maximize these benefits.
Additional Resources
Guides and webinars are available for further information on planning, buying, and compliance, including detailed catalogs and safety design webinars.
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Filling & Dispensing Solutions for Improved Weighing Automation 1 Increasing Efficiency and Safety Process and Quality Control 2 Filling of Pharmaceuticals Big and Small on One Machine 3 Statistical Process Control Improve Machine Performance 4 High Precision Weighing Assuring Top Performance 5 Performance in Quality Control Fully Automated Preparation

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Highest Accuracy Process Control and Quality Of High-Performance Battery Assembly Keeping up with the forecasted battery cell quantities, machine builders must design highly automated manufacturing lines capable of fulfilling market demand. A highprecision weighing system ensures reliable measurement results for increasing production efficiency. Core steps influencing battery quality That means the requirements on the lead to millions of dollars lost per 0.1% weighing system are very high, as an overfilling within one year, METTLER Starting from simple raw materials and accuracy of less than...

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Electrode Assembling Mixing the Slurry Battery Packing Electrical Welding rameter for the overall functionality of the battery is the purity of the coated material. Weighing helps to detect inclusions in the material layer and prevent the development of short-circuits within the electrode, which can lead to dangerous accidents. Customers rely on the highest-resolu-tion technology of our WMF weigh module for in-production quality control. Safety and failures affect company image After the electrodes are stacked, the fine-filling procedure, which leads to finished battery cells, is performed (Figure...

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Big and Small on One Machine The Reason for Being Cutting Edge Our customer, a filling machine manufacturer, used the new WMS Weigh Modules to create a compact and scalable weighing system with multiple tracks. It weighs very small and very large vials fast and accurately on the same machine. In addition the weigh modules carry heavy preload caused by the special weighing pan. For many years, our customer has been Their filling machines for syringes, bot- High quality at all levels of the company one of the world‘s leading companies tles and vials with volumes up to 1 liter is one of many factors...

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rying a special heavy weighing pan for various container formats and for weigh- Our customers’ engineers, by employ- ing both small and large containers ac- ing multiple WMS weigh modules in curately. When the requirements are parallel, have turned a scalable weigh- such, the approximate weighing time is ing system into a reality. Individual a mere 0.3 seconds per weighing pro- weighing points can be added or re- cess. Despite the high-speed weighing moved from the machine without any technology, several modules needed to problem. In the event of a failure, the be arranged in parallel to be able...

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Dispenser Calibration Improve Machine Performance Efficient Dispenser Adjustment Gets It Right Accurate dispensing of the smallest amounts of liquid is essential for reaching outstanding LED purity and coloring. WKC weigh modules are an excellent choice for fast, accurate calibration and adjustment of the dispensing device. Improving efficiency Due to requirements for lower power • Accurate CIE (Commission interna- consumption and higher quality in the tionale de l’éclairage) values, which Highly efficient machines can deliver production of LEDs, our customers are new ways of extracting as much...

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Adaptable weighing pan A detachable weighing plat- Integrated calibration Robust housing form with threaded holes al- WKC weigh modules feature Fully enclosed stainless-steel an internal test weight. This en- housing protects the weigh custom weighing pans. ables a weigh-module adjust- Fast installation module against aggressive ment if deviation is detected. sealing and coated connection cable enables fast com- missioning and reliable data communication. of the liquid dot (Figure 1). By using this Achieve the same benefits highly accurate weighing feedback, they Learn how you can offer your...

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High Precision Weighing Assuring Top Performance with Portable Calibration Solution Hamilton Bonaduz AG is a premium provider for automated liquid-handling solutions. They have comprehensive verification procedures in place to ensure specified performance over the entire life cycle of their laboratory instruments. The pipetting performance is verified with portable WXS high-precision weigh modules at the final quality control and for preventive maintenance. The daily use of the WXS weigh modules as portable verification instruments is plausible proof of its robust design. The Hamilton Company...

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WXS weigh modules Systems used for pipetting liquids which require a high safety level can be module from METTLER TOLEDO is one equipped with a permanently installed of several key components that ensures WXS weigh module. This allows verifi- the highest quality in automated pi- cation of pipetting heads anytime it is petting of liquids for analytics and re- needed. The weigh module has two in- search. Hamilton is very satisfied with tegrated calibration weights. This en- ables the accuracy and functionality ing capability with integrated calibra- of the weigh module to be verified be- tion weights....

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Weighing Components Compact Robot for Pipette Calibration Small Weigh Module Saves Space A very compact robot cell replaces tedious low added-value manual operations whenever a large amount of samples need to be weighted or pipettes have to be calibrated. The ultra small sized weigh module was easy to integrate into the cell. It saves space and leaves room for more pallets with products or additional measuring devices. Asyril SA is a Swiss company focused of miniaturized robotic systems, such as the PocketDelta for example. This robot mechatronical devices for automation. won the Swiss Technology...

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The very compact robot from Asyril can be used for automatic weighing including sorting and sample identification. o perations whenever a large amount of The space for the weighing device was samples needed to be measured to cal- very limited. Therefore Asyril decided to ibrate pipetting systems use the very small sized WMC weigh module which has a foot print of 25 by Asyril built a compact table-top cell of 65 mm only. This saves valuable space i nside the robot cell to leave room for Delta robot. The very compact robot cell a llocating other measuring devices or hosts several paletts of 96...

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