Imagine having real-time, accurate counts of your inventory at a glance -- allowing you to reduce downtime, labor and excess inventory costs. By placing a weight sensor under each parts bin, METTLER TOLEDO SmartShelf’s “scale-able” technology enables automated inventory management with stock visibility and replenishment for 10 items or 10,000 – at one site or one hundred. Why worry about having sufficient stock of critical parts? SmartShelf offers peace of mind!
Whether you are tracking stock in a single facility or need visibility across the globe, SmartShelf is the weight sensor component that has been missing from your inventory management system.
The scale shelves or individual scale weighing pads are installed. Parts bins or other material is loaded on top of a scale shelve. Multiple scale shelves communicate their weight via RS485 digital protocol daisy-chained to a converter box (via Cat 5 cable). The converter box translates the RS485 to RS232 serial protocol and provides power to the scale shelves. Our Customer’s computer communicates via RS232 protocol to monitor scale shelve's weight in real-time. A customized software “front end” on the computer determines average piece weight of an item. This enables tracking stock levels and usage. The computer may communicate via the internet (cloud) to report inventory status, determine if replenishment is required, automatically place order, etc.
A complete SmartShelf consists of a steel shelf, weighing pads, scale PCB board (A/D converter) and weighing platters and comes assembled, calibrated and ready to install to our customers site. The scale shelves are daisy-chained together with a Cat 5 cable (RJ45 connectors) and compatible with BITO and Schaeffer shelving racks (except bench & floor scales).
Specifications:
o Imperial units 48”x12”:
6 weighing pads (25 lb capacity each)
4 weighing pads (50 lb capacity each)
o Metric units 1000mm x 400mm:
6 weighing pads (8kg capacity each)
4 weighing pads (20kg capacity each)
1 weighing pad (100kg capacity)
o Bench scale:
600kg (820mm x 620mm)
o Floor scale:
1000kg (1200mm x 800mm)
A weighing pad consists of a strain gauge load cell, a housing with overload protection and a one or three meter RJ11 cable.
Specifications:
• 6”L x 3.5”H x .77”H
• 5lb/2kg, 25lb/10kg, or 50lb/25kg
• IP65 water-resistance
• 150% overload protection
• Wide temperature range (-20 to +65 degrees Celsius)
A complete SmartShelf is a simple scale shelf, which is easy to install. The scale PCB board is also already built-in and pre-wired to the weighing pads. The scale shelfs are daisy-chained together and to the converter.
The weighing pads with platter consist of a strain gauge load cell and are built into rugged steel scale shelfs. They are more complex but also more flexible. It is required to wire weighing pads to the scale boards, which are daisy-chained together, and to a converter. Weighing pads allow mixing different weight capacities or physical layouts.