Warehouse Scales
Automated dimensioning & weighing systems
Accurate weights and dimensions are important inputs at every stage of your operation. Whether by verifying incoming goods against orders, determining their storage locations, or preparing shipping manifests, the utilization of warehouse scales and dimensioning systems ensures the accuracy necessary for a successful and profitable business.
Complexity can increase operational errors
Maybe your warehouse is producing hundreds of product types for an OEM. Or your e-commerce fulfillment center is managing thousands of SKUs for an omnichannel retailer. In either case, the more goods that go in and out of your operation, the more chances there are for things to go wrong. An automated dimensioning and weighing system reduces errors and keeps you on track.
Warehouse scales catch errors early
When receiving goods, warehouse scales — including floor scales, pallet jack scales, and scales with ramps — weigh pallets and cases, automatically tracking weight and size. If you get more or less of an item than you’re expecting, you’ll know immediately. And when it’s time to ship, heavy-duty, legal-for-trade scales confirm the weight of goods for commercial sale and in-motion scales catch costly underweight or overfilled shipments.
Safer, faster weighing
You want your team to be operating in the safest possible environment. Automated in-motion scales allow truck operators to weigh their cargo without leaving their truck. Heavy-duty floor scales, including scales with ramps, allow your team to wheel or drive goods directly onto the scale to weigh pallets, cubes, and irregularly-shaped items. Everyone stays safe and you get the data you need.
Rely on automation for accurate weighing
You need data to know how your operation is running. But manually collecting information on the weight and dimensions of all the goods you receive and send out is inefficient and unsafe. Warehouse scales and automated dimensioning and weighing systems give you accurate data without distracting your team.
More accurate manufacturing with weighing processes
You’re being asked to make more products with less lead time. Being able to receive, verify, and put away supplies quickly is vital. Automated dimensioning and weighing systems give you the data you need to make the most efficient use of your space when you’re preparing for production, and to get orders past quality control and ready for shipping as soon as they come in.
Make more goods with warehouse scales
The more organized your manufacturing facility, the more goods you can produce. Warehouse scales help streamline the putaway process by measuring the exact size and weight of incoming supplies, so you can store them in the most efficient place for your production line. They can also help speed up the quality control process by checking dimensions and weight against expectations, ensuring only perfectly-made products go out the door.
Completely customizable
If your operation is producing small, delicate products, you might need simple counting scales that can double-check the quantity of a package you’re receiving or sending. A beverage manufacturer may want protective plastic coating in case of spills. And if you’re manufacturing automotive parts, you may need stainless steel floor scales or heavy-duty pallet jack scales to measure large quantities of product going in and out.
Easy to use
Adding accuracy with warehouse scales doesn’t have to be a major operation. Low-profile scales with ramps let you quickly measure pallets and dollies, and forklift scales can be added to existing equipment used to receive or ship goods. ISD works with a range of legal-for-trade partners, so we’ll find scales with the size, shape, and functionality to maximize your work space.
A safer environment
Avoid back injuries and strain with low-profile automated dimensioning and weighing systems that enable your team to use technology to track all goods coming in and out. No need to lift items onto scales or cart products around the floor to the weighing station. Just bring goods to the scale — or in the case of in-motion scales, drive right on — and have weight and dimension data automatically added to your WMS.
Safer, more efficient, and low-profile
Whatever your manufacturing operation, ISD will design a weighing solution that works for you. We’ll take your products, workflows, budget, and space into consideration and design the automated dimensioning and weighing system that will add the most accuracy to your space.
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Unlocking distribution with dimensioning
Your distribution facility needs to move quickly to get customers their orders in time. But going fast can lead to increased errors, which only adds to your workload (and reduces your profits). You need efficient, easy-to-operate ways to automatically quality control shipments — and that’s what warehouse scales can do.
Track inventory
By weighing packages upon arrival and reweighing them before dispatching customer orders, you can accurately determine the precise quantity of your inventory. This enables you to maintain a reduced overall inventory, as you gain a clear understanding of how your existing resources are being utilized.
Reduce error
Even the most skilled team members can make mistakes when logging the receipt of materials or picking a complex order. Built-in warehouse scales, including floor scales to weigh pallets or in-line scales to check trucks full of fulfilled orders, detect errors when there’s still time to fix them.
Small footprint
You want to make the most of every square foot. ISD can design and install warehouse scales that won’t take away space from the rest of your facility. Bench scales can be added to existing shipping stations, floor scales can be built to be flush with your floor so you can roll right over them to transport goods, and pallet jack scales can plug into existing processes.
Quick quality control
Pick, pack — and verify
Warehouse scales allow you to send your customers exactly what they’ve ordered without having to hand-inspect every package. You store the individual weight of each item in your product database, along with the weight of your packing materials. Before a group of packages go out, your ISD-designed dimensioning and weighing system will automatically calculate the total weight of the shipment and verify it on an in-motion scale.
Receive and ship goods for ecommerce with maximum accuracy and minimal investment
At ISD, we believe in providing our customers a fast ROI on automation processes. If you’re interested in investing in an automated dimensioning and weighing system, we’ll design a unique solution for your warehouse.
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