eBook: Smart Sensors Optimize Industrial Weighing

With these capabilities, smart sensors enable machine builders to build more compact machines that have a higher degree of precision and support multiple tasks on the same sensor, freeing up space in the machine while reducing equipment costs. 

For end users dealing with increasingly expensive products and production time, leveraging smart sensors allows critical information to flow upward to control systems with unprecedented speed and precision, supporting a lower overall system cost and higher operational efficiency.

METTLER TOLEDO develops self-contained smart sensors with embedded electronics that eliminate the need for transmitters, control cabinets and extra cabling by connecting directly to a variety of automation networks such as IO-Link and high-speed IE communication. 

Each device is standardized and certified at multiple levels, including the network, the weight and measurement accuracy and electrical safety type requirements. With products that are known, tested and have global approvals, customers can specify, use, operate and maintain them at low risk and engage talent only as needed to help install, calibrate, troubleshoot and support the weighing solutions.