Position: The scales keen to accurately record its stock levels, to avoid any unnecessary purchase of copper and for audit purposes, an electric motor manufacturer acquired high-precision, portable digital weight scales.
David McClure, a weight scales manufacturer of electric motors for industrial weighing applications benefited from the free loan of a weighing scale from the Avery Weigh-Tronix Hire Division during its recent stock take.
The 115-year old business has been relying on Avery Weigh-Tronix hire weighing control equipment for more than 20 years.
Following a recent Hire mailing campaign to encourage clients to pre-book their hire scales, it took steps to make adequate preparations for its end of financial year.
In doing so, the company was automatically entered into a prize draw and was delighted to be awarded the free hire of an weight scales .
David McClure used the scale to checkweigh reels of copper in its end-of-year stock take.
The copper is enamelled for insulation and heat resistance, and manually wrapped to form the motor coils, making it a high-value component at over GBP 3 per kilogram.
The company was therefore keen to accurately record its stock levels, to avoid any unnecessary purchase of copper and for audit purposes.
The weight scales provided the ideal solution with high-precision, digital weighing of the bobbins and a battery-power option, enabling the scale to be moved around the workshop.
This weight scales also meant that the weighing routine became much simpler, quicker and more efficient than in previous years, when reels had to be carried downstairs to be weighed on the company's mechanical platform.
A pre-booking Digital weight scales service is also available.
Product Support Manager, Ray Sammut added, "We operate in a fast moving manufacturing environment and have to provide a quick turnaround of orders for customers including Rolls Royce, the MOD, Williams Formula 1 and UK Coal.
With its battery-power function, the weight scales enabled us to quickly weigh and record our stock levels in a convenient location, leaving us more time to concentrate on production.
Avery Weigh-Tronix Hire supplies a wide range of weighing control products of the latest specification including balances, counting machines, checkweight scales, bench and packing scales and a fleet of 50 vehicle weighbridges.
Advice, installation, calibration and training are provided and the Division also operates a Best Price Policy and guarantees to beat any quoted price.
A pre-booking weight scales service is also available.