Weighscales and Embedded Anybus technology

Scales used to be offline devices at the end of the manufacturing line. Nowadays an industrial scale is a networked device installed in the automated manufacturing line.

Even if the primary measure is just the weight, a modern scales has a lot of built-in intelligence and needs an industrial network to communicate with the supervisory system, normally a PLC.

The type of networks that is required for the scale, is normally dictated by the brand of PLC it's connected to. The large PLC vendors, Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric and Mitsubishi all have their own preferred networks, which creates a demand for scale manufacturers to support a large number of networks with their product, all depended what market they serve.

Three categories of Embedded Anybus products are suitable for Weighscales:

Anybus-CompactCom
HMS latest product development is a high functionally but low-cost embedded unit that integrate the complete communication technology, hardware and software, into a compact unit. The Anybus-CompactCom interchangeability gives manufactures of scales maximum flexibility and after one “design in” their product can support all major networks.

Anybus-CompactCom support all the networks for fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet, but also USB, serial, and wireless. This is key benefit for scales applications since a scale also can be used in “light industrial” applications, like warehouses and packaging. Support for fieldbus, Industrial Ethernet, USB and wireless give a scales manufacturer all the flexibility to able to offer a solution to all applications. Read more

Anybus-S
This product has been used in weighscales applications since 1999 and it has been a great success, over twenty different scales manufactures use Anybus-S as their communication interface to support different Fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet networks. Read more

Anybus-IC
This product is developed to target low end applications,needing a simple, quick and cost efficient way to implement a communication solution in the scale. Read more