Step onto any household or commercial weighing scale, and suddenly your weight magically appears in neat digital numbers. But how does a simple platform know exactly how much you weigh down to a tenth ...
Weight translates to money when it comes to the airline industry. Every additional pound requires more fuel to lift, so making sure there is sufficient gas in the tanks means knowing what the aircraft ...
“Innovation rooted in legacy.” The term, provided by Master Sgt. Dez Watson of the 325th Maintenance Group, succinctly sums up a subtle but significant change in how the U.S. Air Force is quantifying ...
Accuracy is a critical factor in modern engineering. It can mean the difference between a solid, reliable, high-quality product and one that fails or quickly becomes a liability to its users. But for ...
This application note presents the development and use of a Digital Weigh-Scale (DWS) using Zilog’s Z8 Encore!® microcontroller. The reference design offers a ready-to-use DWS solution easily scalable ...
Our old algebra teacher used to say, “You have to take what you know and use it to get what you don’t know.” That saying always reminds of us sensors that convert physical quantities into things our ...
Forty load cells are used to calculate the total mass and center of gravity of tower cranes and lifted loads during the Century City Mall project in Los Angeles. Forty 10-ton wireless compression load ...
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