A scale type known as a bench scale is made specifically to be used on a workstation or bench. Bench scales often take up less space than floor scales while providing more uses than compact scales. The advantages of bench scales, their applications, and five bench scales we suggest for you will all be covered in this blog.
What Advantages Does a Bench Scale Offer?
The advantages of purchasing a bench scale are numerous; let’s examine our top five.
- Wide Range of Types
The first is the large range of types, allowing you to select the bench scale that best suits your requirements. For a range of industries and applications, Inscale stock counting, checkweighing, price calculating, and washdown bench scales are ideal.
- Little Footprint
Bench scales have the additional advantage of being specially sized to be both compact enough to fit on your bench top and strong enough for regular, extended use. You can be more productive and efficient overall if your scale takes up less space and leaves more area for other hobbies and work-related supplies.
- Usually Transportable
Rechargeable batteries are a characteristic of several bench scales. This implies that you may carry them wherever you need to, even in places with limited or no access to energy. With your newfound independence, you can move your bench scale outside into a field or all the way across the warehouse!
- Large Capacity
Bench scales from Inscale are available with weight capabilities of 1 kg to around 75 kg. Even if we have models with even greater capacity, floor scales are perhaps a better use for them. Visit our other blog, Bench Scale vs. Floor Scale: Which is Right For Me? for more details regarding which scale is better for you.
Overload protection is a feature of some bench scales that guards against internal component damage in the event of an overload. If an object is ever accidentally fallen on another bench scale that has shock protection, you can rest easy.
- Cost-effective
Considering everything they offer, bench scales are incredibly economical. They represent a wise financial decision. Our most expensive bench scale at Inscale costs less than £600, and the majority are considerably less.
What Purpose Does a Bench Scale Serve?
Let’s discuss some particular applications for bench scales now that we are aware of their advantages.
Weighing food and ingredients
It is best to use washdown bench scales with an IP rating in the food sector or even in your personal kitchen. The primary priority when handling food is hygiene. It only makes sense to clean your scale after weighing raw meat, seafood, or common allergy foods like peanuts. Depending on the scale’s IP rating, washdown scales greatly simplify cleaning. An IP 68-rated bench scale, for instance, can withstand being entirely submerged in water! Washdown scales are often made of stainless steel, making them resistant to rust, corrosion, and common daily dings or scratches.
Parcels Weighed
For weighing packages in a post office or dispatch, bench scales are perfect. You may have observed that the post office weighs your package when you go to pick it up and gives you a shipping estimate. No matter how your package is delivered—by rail, truck, plane, or boat—each mode of transportation has a maximum weight capacity. Smaller, lighter shipments may need to wait at dispatch a little longer as there is less space for bulkier packages. Bench scales are the ideal equipment for weighing parcels, which is essential for the shipping sector.
Checkweighing in Production Environments
Once you have your standard product, it’s time to make thousands of identical copies of it. Making each subsequent product as close to ideal as feasible is the aim of manufacturing. There is, however, frequently a range of what can be made available for sale. Bench scales for checkweighing assist in managing the weight ranges. To ensure that your consumers receive precisely what they paid for, just specify high and low limitations. You’ll be alerted when a product deviates from those boundaries.