A Unique Sensor Concept for Weighing Containers
Verfasser: pr-gateway on Wednesday, 1 June 2016
(Mynewsdesk) The countdown has started! Only a few weeks are left until the new version of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) takes effect on July 1, 2016. Among other things, it will require shippers whose names appear on the bill of lading to verify the gross mass of each container before removing it from the terminal.
The new magnetic fSENS MLS force sensor from Hirschmann MCS provides a new, innovative way to efficiently comply with the new requirement: weighing containers by indirectly measuring the force they apply to the twistlock during loading. This approach delivers many benefits and can be flexibly implemented no matter whether you use an RTG, RMG or STS crane, a reach stacker, or a straddle carrier.
Static or dynamic weighing takes only moments, and the system can be quickly and easily integrated into existing material-handling processes. It also eliminates the need to laboriously add up individual weights.
A New Approach to Measurement