Application Case Studies

Tough Protection with Teflon PTFE Case Coating
Tough Protection with Teflon PTFE Case Coating

A&D’s FX-i balances have IP65 grade protection as standard, however to further protect the powder-coated cast Aluminium body, the standard FX-i balances were customised to increase resistance to potentially corrosive situations.

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Dispense and Reload Gunpowder with Precision
Dispense and Reload Gunpowder with Precision

Kaizen Tactical offers quality equipment and accessories to those who enjoy tactical and competition shooting.

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Updating a renowned Wool Processing Facility
Updating a renowned Wool Processing Facility

Michell Wool is Australia’s oldest and largest exporters of Australian Wool fibre, and has been associated with the international wool textile industry for over 140 years.

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Custom Chair Scale for Health Application
Custom Chair Scale for Health Application

The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Australian adults is rising year on year. In 2017-2018, two thirds of Australians 18 years and above were overweight or obese, and the figures continue to increase.

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Weighing Locomotives
Weighing Locomotives

CFCLA Australia is the leading provider of leased locomotive and rolling stock to rail operators around Australia. Its Islington maintenance facility, located in Adelaide, has purpose-built workshops to perform a complete range of services, including engineering design, overhaul and maintenance of locomotives.

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AP Custom Ramp and Barriers
AP Custom Ramp and Barriers

A&D were recently contacted by Australia Post to assist with streamlining part of their weighing process at one of their distribution facilities.

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Custom forklift barriers to suit all A&D pallet scales
Custom forklift barriers to suit all A&D pallet scales

The forklift barriers are a newly engineered product to help protect the load cells under your low profile pallet scales, and can help reduce unnecessary upkeep costs by limiting product or machinery damage.

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Weighing Animals with a Portable Trolley
Weighing Animals with a Portable Trolley

The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources recently contacted A&D Weighing to create a customised portable trolley for a Post Entry Quarantine (PEQ) facility.

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A&D Technology Reducing Downtime Costs
A&D Technology Reducing Downtime Costs

There are two types of Lab staff – Those that have spilled stuff on their laboratory balance and those that will!

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Desorption kit for volumetric approximation of produced gas
Desorption kit for volumetric approximation of produced gas

The desorption kit consists of a quick-latching Camlock canister and water reservoir connected by some tubing. The ideal solution would be to include equipment that can accurately measure gas production and send data directly to a laptop or data logger. In this example here, A&D can provide that solution and significantly help to save time and effort.

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Customised Platform Scale for the RAAF
Customised Platform Scale for the RAAF

Supporting Gould Instruments (one of our long term Dealers based in Townsville, QLD) A&D Weighing recently developed a custom pallet scale to help ensure the weighing accuracy at RAAF Townsville.

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Lakes Entrance Fishermen’s Co-operative
Lakes Entrance Fishermen’s Co-operative

When it comes to commercial weighing equipment, there may be plenty of fish in the sea, but world-class equipment is a far rarer catch.

The success our clients have in their business is also reflective of our standing as a whale of the weighing industry – and we love sharing our clients’ feel good stories.

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Redsun – Taste the warmth!   
Redsun – Taste the warmth!  

Running a major glasshouse facility is a massive task, especially with a young family. Phuong & Van know that having the right processing & measuring systems in place is paramount to success, and they were one of the first people in Australia to invest in A&D’s EZICheck™ inline weighing system and it has served them well; automatically checking and recording hundreds of thousands of punnets, ensuring only optimal weights leave the premises.

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A&D EZICheck System Customised for Leading NZ Automation Company
A&D EZICheck System Customised for Leading NZ Automation Company

A&D was recently approached by one of New Zealand’s leading suppliers of complete end-of-line solutions. So using A&D Japan’s popular touch screen intelligent checkweighing controller, the A&D Australasia design team went to work to produce a high capacity checkweigher to suit. Click here to read more.

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Analysing moisture in fertilisers
Analysing moisture in fertilisers

Maintaining the right amount of moisture content in fertilisers is very important to the grading and quality of the fertilisers. Always looking to improve their processes, Neutrog – an organic fertiliser manufacturer based in South Australia, contacted A&D Weighing.

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Ramping Up Our Weighing Expertise
Ramping Up Our Weighing Expertise

A&D were engaged by the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) to provide a custom weighing solution for weighing heavy liquids, waste products and general goods, so the A&D Engineering team designed a custom scale ramp to meet the objectives. Click here to read the story.

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A&D supporting the Royal Adelaide Hospital
A&D supporting the Royal Adelaide Hospital

A&D Weighing recently developed an innovative customised in-ground bed scale for the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Click here to read more.

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Scaling up the battle against cane toads
Scaling up the battle against cane toads

Emily and her team are conducting field work with live moving toads so she requires a scale that can quickly measure weight, is light and portable, and that she is easily able to tare for accurate results. Our HT Scale fits the bill.

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Complete Control for Riviera Bakery
Complete Control for Riviera Bakery

A&D Weighing rose to the challenge to solve a predicament for one of Australia’s favourite bakers Riviera Bakery recently by replacing the existing controller on Riviera’s batching system with a new control cabinet and our AD4401 high performance batching indicator

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Quality Assurance in the Pipelines
Quality Assurance in the Pipelines

We were told that measuring moisture content particularly in the early stages of the manufacturing process was critical. If there is too much or too little moisture left in the pellets of polythene plastic after they have gone through the drying process, then the consistency of the moulded pipes could be weakened and could result in leaks in the pipes.

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Integrating a seamless filling solution for a top Cherry producer
Integrating a seamless filling solution for a top Cherry producer

Utilising the A&D AD4402 batching controller, GP Graders developed a precise, reliable & intelligent system for various sizes of cherry boxes & bags. GP Graders are world leaders in fresh food processing systems and together with A&D’s high speed measurement expertise, an exceptional solution was created.

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Major Tomato Producer Implements Local Weight Data Solution
Major Tomato Producer Implements Local Weight Data Solution

A&D’s powerful Multiweigher 3000 weight data suite has recently been implemented to capture the weights of tomato trusses growing in a new high-tech glasshouse just north of Adelaide.

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Passionate about Pasta
Passionate about Pasta

A&D’s EZI-Check™ Metal Detector allows the customer to accurately control the quality output of their production lines to ensure they align with our high Australian industry standards.
A&D Weighing is proud to provide Alligator Brand with the innovative EZI-Check™ Metal Detector, helping to protect the welfare of their customers, and to safeguard their production processes & reputation.

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A&D weighs out inconsistencies in prison food
A&D weighs out inconsistencies in prison food

In a bid to control prisoners’ food consumption and to ensure overall nutritional balanced diets within the jail, a NSW prison recently requested our help to suggest a better way of achieving consistent food portions.

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Engineered Safety on Amusement Thrill Rides
Engineered Safety on Amusement Thrill Rides

A new amusement ride was purchased by the theme park to invigorate attendance numbers particularly with the school holidays coming. However before the amusement ride could be released to the most daring of thrill seekers, a rigorous risk assessment was performed.

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Super Sweet Results for Strawberry Grower
Super Sweet Results for Strawberry Grower

This Australian strawberry grower supplies hundreds of tonnes of berries to retail supermarkets each year and is renowned for their premium strawberries. They wanted to improve their packing process and expected a premium solution.

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Wild about Game Meat
Wild about Game Meat

Diners and restaurants are becoming more adventurous with culinary fare, and in the last few years we have witnessed a rise in demand for game meat in Australia as well as overseas.

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Is there Mushroom to improve?
Is there Mushroom to improve?

One of our nation’s largest producers, packers and marketers of fresh produce continuously evaluate ways to improve their processes. This family owned company has a proud reputation for quality and consistency, but are always seeking new and innovative methods to raise the bar.

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Printing a Better Weigh
Printing a Better Weigh

Webstar are one of Australia’s leaders in the print media space and have forged a reputation for unrivalled flexibility, quality and reliability. They print more than 150 magazine titles, catalogues and corporate publications each month.

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Coffee Scale, Caffeine Hit on a Major Scale!
Coffee Scale, Caffeine Hit on a Major Scale!

A&D Australasia’s Weighing Division recently solved a problem for local boutique coffee blender and roaster Veneziano Coffee, with a customised, portable weigh hopper that reduced OH&S risks and significantly improved their blending process. Veneziano are renowned for their premium coffee so they expected a premium solution.

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