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Check Weighing Systems

Atco offers total weighing solutions for check weighing requirements. The purpose of a check weigher is to check, classify and segregate products by weight. A check weigher usually includes means of transferring commodities across the scale, check the weight within tolerance band, ie, preset overweight and underweight zones limits. After checking it segregates the out of limit commodities as reject or rework items. Typical use of check weighers: check the underweight and overweight packages; check gross underweight commodities; check packaged mixes with multiple powders to assume that all powders are included; verify the count by weight-such as checking of missing bottle, can, bag, etc, from carton; check package mixes against under and overweight limits to the ratio within established quality norms; classify products into multiple weight grades or categoriessuch as poultry eggs, golf balls, etc; and, weigh before and after process to check the performance of the process. The weight information can be statistically analysed, accumulated and displayed through computer interface and also can be used as an effective quality control tool.