Two tips to follow when ordering industrial weighing scales for your food processing factory
If you have a new food processing facility and need to order a set of industrial weighing scales to weigh your ingredients, here are two tips to follow.
Ensure the scales' capacity is greater than the heaviest ingredient mixture you'll be weighing on them
It's best to ensure that that the industrial scales you buy have a weight capacity that is significantly higher than the total weight of any combination of ingredients you'll weigh on them. For example, if your factory makes cakes and you'll be using the scales to weigh 250kg batches of flour, cocoa and baking soda mixtures, you might want to choose a scale that has a maximum capacity of 300kg.
The reason for this is that if your scale's capacity is equal to or just a few grams higher than the weight of the ingredients you weigh on it, there is a chance that your staff will overload it sometimes, as a result of adding too much of one ingredient. Even if they remove the excess ingredient quickly after doing this, overloading it regularly over an extended period might shorten the scales' lifespan. As such, it's best to ensure the capacity of the scales you buy is high enough to allow some room for error, in regards to the ingredient measurements.
Additionally, your food factory might get bigger over time, in which case having industrial scales that can handle higher quantities of ingredients will mean you won't have to order a second set of scales when your first set is still working perfectly.
Recalibrate the scales regularly
It is extremely important not to forgo the regular recalibration of your industrial scales. The more consistent you are in regards to recalibrating them, the more accurate they will be. The accuracy of industrial scales is important in any industrial setting but is particularly important in a food processing facility as, if the scales measurements are inaccurate as a result of not being calibrated often enough (for example, if the scales incorrectly state that 10kg of flour weighs 11kg), you'll end up with vast quantities of food products that have to be thrown out because they're inedible. This would be a waste of your staff's time, your expensive ingredients and your factory's other resources.
Additionally, if the issues caused by the scales inaccuracies are not immediately obvious but still affect your food product's flavours or textures, you could end up sending the low-quality products to your customers. As such, you must stick to a strict scales recalibration schedule.
Reach out to a local industrial weighing scale supplier to learn more.