Miniature S-beam load cells can be used in several medical applications. The LSB200-series load cells from Futek Advanced Sensor Technology Inc. (Irvine, CA) have high linear accuracy. The cells also ...

Step onto any household or commercial weighing scale, and suddenly your weight magically appears in neat digital numbers. But how does a simple platform know exactly how much you weigh down to a tenth ...

CNC Engineering’s “substantial update” to the Fanuc control platform for machining cells has a user-friendly, touchscreen GUI that also reduces downtime. The operator’s panel manual mode lets the ...

When webs of continuous paper, wire, cloth, or plastic are manufactured, the material is typically pulled off a roll, processed, and rewound in unwind, intermediate, and rewind zones. Knowing the ...

• Force vectors don’t want to remain in line with the object being pushed. • Load-cell specifications usually do not call out accuracy, but rather linearity, repeatability, and hysteresis. • Accuracy ...