If you're buying an industrial floor scale, please consider the choices or accessories before you purchase. It's a lot easier to modify things before your scale is delivered. For example, do you need a LCD display or LED display? Do you need a stainless steel weight indicator or a plastic one? Instead of a scale for your warehouse, do you need a scale that will be able to handle the outdoors? Do you need a floor scale with ramp? Do you need a floor scale with label printer? Do you need floor scale bump guards? Those are just a few of the choices you need to consider when answering an ad for platform scales for sale. Read the how to buy pallet scales guide if you need some more assistance as well.
Please note, floor scale delivery is to business addresses only (Zoned Commercial) with a loading dock or fork-lift. All other charges (liftgate, residential, construction, military, etc..) are the buyers responsibility.
Standard pallet scales usually are accurate to 0.1 of one percent. So for a five thousand pound capacity floor scale, if you placed five thousand pounds of weight on the scale, the tolerance would be +/- five pounds.
What is considered industrial scale?
Terms like "industrial" are sometimes thrown around a lot but basically an industrial scale is a scale that is designed to be utilized in industrial settings which tend to be rough environments. Shipping warehouses, factories, manufacturing facilities are a few examples where you could see industrial scales in action.
How often you calibrate a warehouse scale is normally determined by the scale owner and the local scale calibration company. Most scale companies offer online scale calibration documentation which can be analyzed over time to determine how often an industrial floor scale should be tested and/or calibrated. Often the answer is anywhere from monthly to quarterly.
In a legal for trade setting and in most every industrial setting, it is wise to contact a reputable scale company to check, test, and adjust industrial weighing scales. This is recommended because the scale company has first hand experience selling and working on an industrial floor scale and they have state licensed technicians and certified accurate test weights.