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Nitro Branch Installs Unique Multi-Axle Weighing System
This system is unique, in that it’s the first one Brechbuhler Scales, Inc. Nitro has ever done with a multi-axle weighing system; as in three completely separate weighbridges, attached to a single indicator. The indicator referenced is the DD 2050, which also acts as the HMI (human-machine interface). There are actually two of these pole-mounted…
Read MoreDayton Provides Custom Weighing Solution with Steel Deck Centurion and 2 DD 2050s
A manufacturing customer had a new facility being built in Atlanta, Georgia, and needed a truck scale system capable of accepting payment for recycled shingles. The truck scale system needed to accept credit card payments as well as RF tags for identification for purchase order payments. All data needed to be processed and data sent…
Read MoreBrechbuhler Scales, Inc. Mansfield, OH Installs Concrete Deck Truck Scale
Brechbuhler Scales, Inc. Mansfield, Ohio just finished installing a B-TEK 80 x 11 Concrete Deck, Digital Pit Scale to a Milling Company in Northern Ohio. The Milling Company hopes to have their new facility up and running by this time next year!
Read MoreParkersburg, WV assisted Degussa’s Weighing Needs
The system consists of several hardware devices that work in conjunction with a custom software package from ScaleSoft Development, to devise a customized process solution for Degussa Engineered Carbons and their weighing needs. The start of any system is the indicator. In this case, we used two Bilancai D450s stainless steel indicators that we custom…
Read MoreCanton & Youngstown Rebuild 1970s Mechanical Rail Scale
At the Brechbuhler Scales (BSI) Canton shop, we have rebuilt a 400-ton Howe Mechanical Rail Scale. This is a joint effort between BSI Youngstown and BSI Canton. BSI Youngstown sold the rebuild. The scale belongs to a customer of Youngstown. The customer is a castings company out of Northeast Ohio. The scale is a 400-ton…
Read MoreYoungstown, Ohio Branch Performs Test Weight Verification in Final Hours
A last-minute weight rental solution was provided by the Youngstown, Ohio branch to a Crane facility in northwest Pennsylvania at a locomotive company. B-TEK Scales, LLC, and Brechbuhler Scales, Inc. Youngstown joined forces and stepped up to the plate in the final hour to provide 137,000 pounds of test weight for a crane certification.
Read MoreBrechbuhler Scales, Inc. Nitro helps Recycling Company Overcome Unique Challenges
A recycling company had some unique challenges we had to overcome due to where they had to place the scale, which was a considerable distance from the sources of power and where the office would be. First off, the indicator used was a DD 1010ic, with a custom truck in/out program, written to produce a…
Read MoreBrechbuhler Scales, Inc. Nitro Assists in a System Overhaul with Two DD 1050i’s
Phase 1: The customer was in an unfortunate predicament, in terms of their business process, when their very old GE Fanuc PLC system crashed on them. They decided to get the person who originally did all of their logic programmings, but unfortunately, this gentleman passed away several months prior, unbeknownst to them. They were also…
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