Application-oriented weighing technology solutions

Weighing Technology for Industry

Extensive, application-specific, certified
 Applications at a glance

Solutions in Weighing Technology

for Different Industries

Plant engineering and vehicle Weighing, batching, and filling

scales Digital load cells and components from HBM offer
Plant safety, product quality, and reproducibility: additional advantages:
Numerous certificates verify that all HBM ■ High-speed visualization of results
components meet the most stringent demands –
■ Good setting value reproducibility
anywhere in the world. We provide load cells,
(zero signal, full scale value, etc.)
weighing modules, and electronics for:
■ Easy integration into plant and process sequences;
■ Tank weighers and batching scales all current interfaces are available
■ Platform scales ■ No mechanical damping elements that are subject
■ Additive and silo weighing to wear are required
■ Weighbridges for road vehicles ■ High operational safety through individual commu-
■ Level monitoring nication with each load cell in the process

Digital load cell

Analog load cells and

AED digital transducer electronics PanelX analysis software

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Individual solutions
Fast prototyping and state-of-the-art FEM technologies enable
us to satisfy your weighing technology needs in the shortest
possible time. For example, we develop and manufacture specific
components for:

■ Scale manufacturers
(platform scales, legal-for-trade scales)
■ Medicine (weighing hospital patients)
■ Building industry (weighing materials, power shovels)
■ Agriculture (automatic feeders)
■ Public sector (weighing garbage)
■ Quality assurance

Components that meet your individual requirements

Wide range of weighing Safety with certification Comprehensive range of
technology components services offered
■ International approvals for
■ Load cells and weighing convenient use of HBM load ■ HBM expertise available
modules cells (OIML, NTEP, EAC, etc.) on any site anywhere in the
■ Mounting aids and extensive in legal-for-trade scales world
accessories ■ Extensive range of weighing ■ Individually customized
■ Bus-capable electronics and technology products in advice
amplifiers compliance with IECEX/ATEX ■ Training and seminars
or FM (USA)
■ Software for visualization,
process control, and analysis

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Your Advantages with HBM

Outstanding mechanical and measurement characteristics are critical to your
application. HBM load cells are both state-of-the-art and best-in-class.

Highly precise
Some load cell types providing OIML C5 and C6
accuracy classes can be produced and supplied in
large quantities thanks to consistent research in the
fields of material science, metal-foil strain gauges,
and sensors.

Z6, HLCB1/2 and C16(A/I) high-accuracy load cells

can be used with maximum capacities up to 60 t.

Z6 load cell

Robust
HBM load cells guarantee maximum service life and relia-
bility even in harsh environments. They are ideally protec-
ted from adverse conditions thanks to their stainless steel
measuring bodies* and electropolished surfaces.

Load cells with IP68/IP69K degree of protection offer

maximum service life in applications in the chemical,
pharmaceutical, and food industries.

Z6R and HLCB2 load cell Use in potentially explosive atmospheres (IECEx:
Zone 1 + 21, Zone 2 + 21) is not a problem for most
HBM load cells.

* except Z7

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Measurements insensitive to temperature

HBM provides load cells based on innovative six-wire technology.
This technology reliably compensates for variations in load cell cable
resistance resulting from temperature fluctuations.

OIML C6 error curves

200
max. error [ppm f.s.]
150 Reference incr.
Error [ppm f.s.]

100 Reference decr.

50 -10 incr.
0 -10 decr.
40 incr.
-50 40 decr.
-100 20 incr.
-150 20 decr.
-200
0 25 50 75 100

Load [%]

Reliable measurement results

HBM load cells have complied with the ever more
stringent requirements* of OIML Guidelines R60/
R76, e.g. for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
of 10 V/m for many years. This ensures that
measurement results cannot be affected.

Fit for export

HBM load cells have been approved in almost all
countries around the world. Many specific techni-
cal requirements for load cells varying from place
to place are easily complied with. You can trust
that your weighing systems are fit for export.

* except C2 and C2A load cells for compressive force

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Load Cells with Certified Safety

Load cells for

industrial scales

Bending beam load cell

Load cell type
Z6 Z6R HLCB2 HLCB1
Output signal analog analog analog analog

Accuracy class D1, C3, C4, C6 D1, C3 C3, C4, C6 D1, C3, C4, C6

Approvals NMI NMI NMI

Degree of protection IP68 IP68/IP69K IP68/IP69K IP68

Explosion protection

Material/Surface stainless steel/ stainless steel/ stainless steel/ stainless steel/

electro-polished electro-polished electro-polished electro-polished

Force application through hole through hole stepped bore stepped bore

Cable length [m] 3, 6, 12 3, 6, 12 3, 6, 12, 20 3, 6, 12

Cable sheath PVC PVC TPE-O 1) PVC

Cable option TPE-O 1) braided wire

Application all-rounder extreme ambient extreme ambient all-rounder

conditions, e.g. conditions, e.g.
chemical, food, etc. chemical, food, etc.

Maximum capacity 5 kg
20 kg
from … to 110 kg 110 kg
200 kg

kg
1t
4.4 t 10 t

Special feature Load cell family with identical dimensions and Load cell family with identical dimensions and
electrical values electrical values

1)
TPE-O cable sheath: Cable from thermoplastic elastomer
offering high resistance against many aggressive media

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Save costs –
with safety and
quality
From legal-for-trade
Bending beam load cell operation to explosion
HLCA HLCF Z7 protection – HBM’s
certified load cells offer
analog analog analog maximum safety and
reliability. Anywhere in
D1, C3 C3 D1, C3
the world. Save costs and
minimize downtime.
NMI

IP68 IP68 IP67

stainless steel/ stainless steel/ galvanized steel/nickel-plated

electro-polished electro-polished

through thread blind hole stepped through hole

3, 6, 12 3 3, 6, 12

PVC PVC PVC

braided wire

all-rounder all-rounder simple, humid

environment

20 kg

220 kg

500 kg

1.76 t
4.4 t
10 t

Load cell family with identical dimensions

(except force application) and electrical values

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Load Cells with Certified Safety

Load cells for

industrial scales
Load cell for tensile and Load cell for
Load cell for tensile force
Load cell type compressive force compressive force
RSCC Z16 U2A RTN
Output signal analog analog analog analog

Accuracy class C3 D1, C3 0.1 %, D1 0.05 %, C3

Approvals

Degree of protection IP68 IP68, IP69K IP67 IP68, IP69K

Explosion protection

Material/Surface stainless steel stainless steel stainless steel stainless steel

Force application thread thread thread spherical surface

Cable length [m] 7.6, 12, 20 12, 20, 40 3, 6, 12, 20 5, 12, 15, 20

Cable sheath PVC TPE-O 1) PVC TPE-O 1)

Cable option braided wire braided wire

Application all-rounder all-rounder all-rounder all-rounder

Maximum capacity
from … to 50 kg 50 kg

kg
5t
1t
7.5 t
15 t 20 t

t
470 t

Special feature Option: Protective Option: wider tempera- Ring torsion principle of
cable conduit system ture range measurement
Option: wider tempera-
ture range
1)
TPE-O cable sheath: Cable from thermoplastic elastomer
offering high resistance against many aggressive media
2)
TPE-U cable sheath: Cable from thermoplastic polyurethanes

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Load cell for compressive force Pressure transducer

C16A C16i C2 C2A P8WT

analog digital analog analog analog

D1, C3, C4, C5 C3, C4 0.1 % D1, C3, C4 D 0.3

NMI NMI

IP68, IP69K IP68, IP69K IP67 IP67 IP67

stainless steel/ stainless steel/ stainless steel/ stainless steel/ stainless steel
electro-polished electro-polished electro-polished electro-polished

spherical surface spherical surface spherical surface spherical surface pressure

12, 20, 40 12, 20, 40 3, 6, 12, 20 6, 12, 20

TPE-O 1) TPE-O 1) PVC PVC TPE-U 2)

braided wire outside braided wire outside

all-rounder all-rounder all-rounder all-rounder special transducer for

wheel loaders
0 bar
50 kg
500 bar

1t
10 t

20 t 20 t 50 t
60 t
400 t

Option: wider tempera-

ture range

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Compact Weighing Modules

for Tank Weighing
HBM weighing modules contain all the compo-
nents you need for optimum tank weighing: Additional advantages for use:

■ Anti-liftoff device for continuous load application ■ Maintenance-free operation, even under difficult
■ Stay rod to protect the load cell against lateral forces environmental conditions

■ Exact load application thanks to pendulum and

■ Load cells can be quickly inserted or replaced at
rubber-metal bearings any time, to meet specific accuracy requirements

■ Ground cable to prevent any damage caused by

welding currents or flashes of lightning etc.

RTN
Module type Z6/AM Z6/M HLC/M 1) C16/M
M2A/M2LA M2B/M2LB
Accuracy class C4, C6 D1, C3 D1, C3 0.05 %, C3 0.05 %, C3 D1, C3

Material/Surface steel/galvanized steel/galvanized steel/galvanized stainless steel stainless steel steel/galvanized

or stainless steel or stainless steel or stainless steel or stainless steel

Bearing pendulum pendulum pendulum rubber-metal pendulum self-restoring

bearing bearing bearing bearing bearing

Stay rod/ yes/no yes/yes yes/yes optional (L)/yes optional (L)/yes yes/optional
Anti-liftoff device
Scope of delivery load cell load cell load cell load cell not load cell not load cell
included included included included included included
50 kg 30 kg
Maximum capacity 110 kg
from … to
500 kg 500 kg

kg
4.4 t
1t 1t

33 t 33 t
20 t

t 200 t

1)
Optionally available with type HLCB1 or HLCB2 load cells

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A Range of Professional Accessories

for Industrial Scale Manufacturers
■ Robust mounting aids for exact load application ■ Scale electronics and process control electronics
prevent incorrect loading caused by lateral for optimum load cell adjustment and measure-
forces and moments ment signal conditioning
■ Measuring leads and junction boxes – also with ■ Control and analysis software for self-contained
explosion protection – meet high metrological control systems in plants and intelligent meas-
requirements urement signal conditioning and analysis at the
press of a button

Rubber-metal Pendulum Cones,

Mounting aid Thrust pieces Knuckle eyes
bearings bearings conical pans

Characteristics steel/galvanized steel/galvanized stainless steel stainless steel stainless steel

or stainless steel or stainless steel

For load cell C16 A, C16 i, C2 Z6F, Z6R, C2A, Z6F, Z6R, C2A, Z6F, Z6R, U2A, Z6F, Z6R
C2, RTN, HLCB C2..., RTN RSC…

Mounting
Mounting aid Loading foot Easy top Fixed bearing Quadro set
base

Characteristics stainless steel steel/galvanized 4 x HLCB load cell,

4 x swivel load foot,
1 x junction box,
1 x cable reel

For load cell HLC , Z6, Z6R HLCB Z6F, Z6R, HLC for weighing HLCB
modules, RTN…

Go to the world of HBM weighing technology at: www.hbm.com/weighing

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