Our great country was built on manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution some 200 years ago.  The dawning of the next industrial revolution known as “Industry 4.0” is coming, and Nicol Scales & Measurement can help you automate your production processes, capture and transmit data seamlessly and improve your weighing and measurement equipment’s HMIs to make processes easier and faster for workers.  NSM represents the best manufacturers in the world as a value added, full service distributor so we can create custom systems to control processes like batching or filling systems, and we can interface with PLCs via almost any communication protocol available today.  If you want to capture data from your weighing and measurement equipment, NSM offers a variety of data acquisition methods at multiple price points.  For companies concerned about the quality of the products produced, we offer force and materials testing equipment for use in the QC process to validate specifications or to inspect incoming goods.

NSM understands the importance of uptime and accuracy of equipment used in production, so we offer 24/7 emergency service and a variety of calibration offerings to meet your specific needs.  Contact us today to learn more.

Bench Scales

Concrete Deck Truck Scales

Counting Scales

Crane Scales and Overhead Weighing

Data Collection Software

Digital Force Gauges

Dimensional Measurement Products

Dimensioning

Extreme Environment & Wash Down Scales

Floor and Drum Scales

Force Testing Accessories

Forklift/Pallet Jack Scales

Indicators & Controllers

Labeling and Barcoding Software

Mechanical Force Gauges

Minebea Intec Industrial High Resolution

Single Column Testing Systems up to 5kN

Speed Products

Static Check Weighing

Steel Deck Truck Scales

Test Stands

Top Loading Balances

Torque Measurement

Twin Column Bench Mounted Testing Systems up to 100kN

Twin Column Floor Mounted Testing Systems up to 300kN

Weighing Assemblies for Tank and Hopper Weighing

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November 2, 2016 Aloha Automation with Rice Lake’s Programmable Indicators and Quality Control Scale Hawaii is the land of luaus, leis and lava, but is is also home to the only fully-automated QUIKRETE® manufacturing ...

April 15, 2013 Animal Weighing Data Needed Animal weigh data has become as essential tool for curators and animal husbandry personnel at Zoos, Aquariums and Animal Parks ...

November 2, 2016 Breakaway Effects Tests the Stiffness and Flexibility of Stunt Glass Breakaway Effects, a leading stunt glass manufacturer, used the EZ20 test machine to test the stiffness and flexibility of stunt ...

November 2, 2016 Check the (Load Cell) Pockets to Compare Truck Scales You are not looking for loose change when you check the load cell pockets to compare truck scales.  Instead, you’re ...

November 2, 2016 Client Desires Livestock Scale with Pass-through Doors and Easy Transport B-TEK Scales fabricated a full size livestock scale, equipped with forklift channels for portability. Each door has a latch closure ...

November 2, 2016 Concrete Stone Facility Needs Scales to Fit in Existing Areas The Clients – Concrete Stone Facility The Challenge -Turn-key truck scale solution for concrete and stone facility The Solution – From foundation work to ...

November 21, 2011 Customer in the Cosmetics Industry Needs Scales for a Yearly Inventory A customer in the cosmetics industry needs scales for a yearly inventory.  They only need the scales once a year, ...

April 14, 2010 Customer Needs Scale to Allow Adjustment for Product Size The Challenge – Weigh bundles of product in various lengths from 6’ to 20’. The customer wanted a scale both ...

November 2, 2016 Customer Needs to Monitor Material Moving to and from Site The Challenge -Installing a new truck scale and wireless RF unmanned system to monitor material like salt, slag and crushed ...

April 5, 2016 CW-90 Checkweighers are the First Step to Mushroom Production Automation Whitecrest Mushrooms Ltd. Farm in rural Putnam, Ontario, has one of the most high-tech mushroom plants in the world — with ...

November 2, 2016 Denture Cement and Adhesive Manufacturer Tests New Formulations with the LR Plus test machine A UK manufacturer of denture cement / denture adhesive uses the Lloyd LR Plus test machine to test new formulations ...

February 26, 2016 Dynamic Average Weight Control at Dannon Danone, also known as Dannon according to its U.S. subsidiary’s name, rethought its entire production process as it expected to ...

November 2, 2016 EZ20 Test Machine Used by Exeter Advanced Technologies Measure the Behavior of Paint Coating Materials characterization specialists at Exeter Advanced Technologies used the EZ20 test machine to measure the behavior of paint coating. Introduction The worst-case ...

February 23, 2016 Farm Desires to Expand Seed Business The farm will use this scale to expand seed business. A new B-TEK Centurion Hybrid steel deck analog truck scale was ...

November 2, 2016 Farmers Trust in Their Crop with a Rice Lake Survivor OTR Even before a seed is planted, farmers invest a great deal of time and effort to ensure it develops into ...

November 21, 2011 Fish Farm Needs Automated System for Better Tracking and Error Reduction A fish farm was manually tracking how much feed was put into each individual pond and then recording that information ...

February 1, 2011 Horse Care Facility Needs Mobile Horse Scale with Non-slip Mat B-TEK Scales manufactures many different types of floor scales for animals from livestock to zoo animals. This livestock scale’s surface is ...

February 23, 2016 Incorporating MSHA Compliant Sight Rails onto a Scale The Customer – Garber Materials, Lexington, Ohio location The Challenge – Replacing a previous scale in a gravel pit location. The Solution ...

March 21, 2018 Kongsberg Automotive Tracks Inventory in Length Customer – Kongsberg Automotive provides world class products to the global vehicle industry. Application- Customer wanted a solution to track Inventory ...

November 2, 2016 Leading Manufacturer of Overhead Optical Fibre Cables Performs Tensile Testing One of the leading manufacturers of overhead optical fibre cables uses the LR30KPlus test machine to perform tensile testing. Non-destructive testing Accurate ...

February 23, 2016 Making a Drum Scale Mobile with Attached Ramp for Easier Loading and Unloading The Clients – Warehouses, manufacturing facilities and all customers with portability needs The Challenge – To make a drum scale mobile with ...

November 7, 2011 Manufacturer with Multiple Plants Needs Custom Force Testing Machine A large packaging manufacturer has a number of plants across the United States.  They have a variety of different force ...

February 23, 2016 Mars Horsecare Desires Mobile Horse Scale with Non-slip Surface B-TEK Scales manufactures many different types of floor scales for animals. From livestock to zoo animals, small or large, a ...

February 24, 2016 Measuring Torque in the Texas Oil Field Texas oil field companies use the Intercomp TL8500 Tension Link Dynamometers to measure the torquing force. As this equipment is serviced ...

November 2, 2016 MSHA Guidelines for Truck Scales The Mine Safety and Health Administration or MSHA (nicknamed “emshaw”) is the government organization that oversees safety at mines, quarries, and ...

April 8, 2016 New Life for Steel at Alter Metal Recycling When state regulations changed to prohibit split-weighing on Legal for Trade truck scales, and with a growing volume of scale ...

November 2, 2016 One Perfect OTR Survivor and MSHA Guardrail Installed Joe Mayberry, scale salesman extraordinaire for American Weighing Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, is rightly proud of this new OTR SURVIVOR truck scale ...

December 15, 2016 Packaging Testing By combining the TA1 texture analyzer with our grips and fixtures for packaging testing you can perform tests such as ...

November 2, 2016 Rattling the Acres of Outagamie County with Rice Lake’s Mobile Marketing Unit It can be quiet in Wisconsin’s farm country, with July’s mid-day sun forcing every living creature to shade and shelter, ...

November 2, 2016 Replacing Previous Scale in a Gravel Pit Location The Customer – ConAgra Foods, Morrell, Ohio location The Challenge -Replacing a previous scale in a gravel pit location. The Solution – ...

November 2, 2016 Rice Lake’s 920 i Controller Helps to Increase Tread Life A TIRE COMES INTO THIS WORLD FOR JUST ONE PURPOSE. IT CARRIES US FROM POINT “A” TO POINT “B” AND ...

July 10, 2018 Scale Rental for All Needs NSM just finished our largest rental of the year where we rent 68 dual counting scales to a local vehicle ...

March 24, 2011 Scales at Amusement Parks Allow Riders Peace of Mind B-TEK Scales fabricates scales for many uses. One of the more interesting and enjoyable uses for scales are installations in ...

November 2, 2016 Scottish Agricultural College Uses the TA1 to Measure the Eating Quality of Meat To measure the eating quality of meat, the Scottish Agricultural College uses the TA1 texture analyzer from Lloyd Instruments. Uniformity and enhancement ...

November 2, 2016 Scrap Metal Processor Needs Scales to Fit in Existing Areas Custom scale solutions for one of the most experienced and largest scrap metal processors in North America; with clients from ...

December 5, 2011 Seafood Company in Houston Area Needs Reliable Scales and Programming Seafood Company in Houston area had a bagging system with two Weightronix indicators that had custom programs in them. Scales ...

November 2, 2016 Steel Processing Warehouse Weighs for Stock and Shipment Simultaneously B-TEK Clydesdale Floor Scales can be fabricated in many sizes and capacities for different scale needs. Above ground or pit ...

November 2, 2016 Time Flies at Tilcon, Thanks to the Automated Ticketing Systems Tilcon owns and operates dozens of quarries, asphalt and recycling plants, water terminals, and highway construction divisions, in New York ...

November 2, 2016 Truck Scale to Weigh Trucks after Offloading from Rail Cars on Railway Reliable rail transportation brings in asphalt materials to the Valley Asphalt Company’s scale location near Cincinnati, Ohio. This truck scale ...

November 2, 2016 Turning Grain Dust into Gold with Grain Dump Scales Grain fields in eastern Illinois and Wisconsin stretch as far as the horizon in all directions. Towering clusters of bins ...

November 2, 2016 Weighing Specialized Sand for the Drilling of the Marcellus Shale in Central PA The Challenge – Turn-key truck scale solution for the energy industry with multiple locations in central PA using digital technology ...

April 5, 2016 Zero Tolerance for Error at Ottawa Mould Craft The people at Ottawa Mould Craft, Ltd., Ontario, Canada, have a contract to mold and assemble filtration products—some with military ...

April 15, 2013 Zoo Wants a Specialized Elephant Scale for Children The Reid Park Zoo in Tuscon, Arizona contacted Emery Winslow in need of a specialized scale for their Elephant Exhibit.

October 21, 2019 10 Criteria to Choose a Static Industrial Scale This paper deals with the criteria that should be considered when selecting a scale for static industrial weighing. This white ...

June 26, 2017 An Innovative Solution White Paper The cost for hand-harvesting operations has steadily increased over the years without regard to the delivered-in price that growers receive. Growers ...

June 26, 2017 Beginning a Beautiful Relationship with 9104 Omnicells White Paper Fairbanks has a solid and successful track record in tank weighing assemblies, and the word is spreading. Many industrial processes need and ...

April 17, 2017 Best Practices White Paper Maintenance practices don’t immediately show profit or savings but good practices prevent short and long-term expenses. Here is the good ...

June 26, 2017 Coal Tar Undercoating White Paper In 2001, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) released a study that calculated the cost of corrosion to the United States ...

May 3, 2017 Connecting an iDimension 100 to UPS WorldShip Software Connecting an iDimension 100 Series to UPS Worldship requires your unit to have software version 4.7.2.1007 or later to be ...

November 17, 2016 Dimensioning Dimensional weight, often referred to as dim weight, reflects the package’s density—the amount of space the package utilizes in relation ...

June 26, 2017 Fairbanks Trident: A Proven, Strategically Special Scale White Paper It is not uncommon to find our competitors focusing the sales dialog on the virtues of a steel deck truck scale. ...

June 26, 2017 Foodborne Illnesses White Paper • 3,000 deaths • 1 in every 6 Americans get sick (that’s 48 million people) • 128,000 hospitalizations These yearly estimates are provided ...

November 1, 2016 Force Measurement Explained Force measurement is used in many differing types of applications and may be accomplished with devices utilizing differing technologies. Typical ...

April 24, 2018 Hygienic Design White Paper In the food production industry, product contamination by microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi presents a potential and omnipotent risk. It is ...

April 17, 2017 IP69K White Paper What is IP69K? Is this a concern for me? If so, how can I be protected?

November 1, 2016 Is Force Measurement Evolving into Materials Testing? In the past force measurement generally meant obtaining a peak load measurement on a product, part or material to verify ...

June 26, 2017 LabelBank Not Just for the Food Industry White Paper Tracking boxes, crates, and bags of product is important to most businesses. Nowhere is it more important than in the currency business. ...

November 1, 2016 Load Cell Application and Test Guidelines A load cell is a device that is used to measure weight or force. W hen a force is applied ...

November 1, 2016 Load Cells for a Portable Structure During a measurement, weight acts on the load cell’s body and causes elastic deformation.  The body has some spring constant. This ...

May 3, 2017 Measuring Irregular and Small Objects iDimension Series version 4.9.1.162 firmware (NTEP pending) is now available for download. This version enhances dimensioning performance with irregular shaped ...

November 1, 2016 Measuring the Eating Quality of Meat Uniformity and enhancement of meat eating quality is seen as an important factor in the sustainability of the Scottish (and ...

June 26, 2017 PDQ Scale White Paper An area Sales manager (ASM) had developed a relationship with a local pipe company and uncovered an opportunity to help them ...

June 26, 2017 QuickSilver Bench Scale meets all demands of Gulf Coast supermarket chain Along America’s Gulf Coast, from Gulf Shores, Ala., to Layfayette, La., you will find locations for regional supermarket chain, Rouses Food Market. From ...

April 17, 2017 Scale Maintenance White Paper Do not be fooled by service companies selling scale maintenance agreements that lack focus on calibration. Calibration is the most ...

November 1, 2016 Selecting a Testing, Calibration or Measurement Supplier When selecting a supplier to fulfill your testing, calibration or measurement needs, you need to be sure that they can ...

November 1, 2016 Single Column Force Testers Offer Practical and Affordable Force Testing Solutions Single column force testers today represent the largest single market segment of the force testing marketplace for a number of ...

November 1, 2016 Slope’s Effect on Accurate Weighing The scale is designed with the assumption that the load will be parallel to the direction of gravity and perpendicular ...

November 1, 2016 Tank Weighing Woes: Why Load Cells have a Bad Reputation and What Needs to be Done to Fix it Many manufacturing facilities currently have load cells installed in tank systems that are no longer operational. Most of the times ...

June 26, 2017 TensileCore Engineered Concrete White Paper In just about any application, a concrete deck truck scale is a better long-term solution than a steel deck scale. When ...

November 1, 2016 The Benefits of Buying Local Businesses are turning to the Internet for a wide variety of purchases, including scales. Although convenient and sometimes less expensive, ...

April 17, 2017 The Difference Between Open and Closed End Service White Paper Open-end service is the most typical type of service that is provided in the industrial weighing service industry. It is ...

November 1, 2016 USP Chapter 41: “Balances” This chapter states the requirements for balances used for materials that must be accurately weighed (see General Notices, 8.20). Unless ...

November 17, 2014 The Solution to Weighing Mobile Tanks and Reactors – a Caster Load Cell System How do you weigh product accurately in a portable tank, vessel or reactor? With a specially designed  caster load cell! Read ...