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Medical Bag Weighing

It is important to monitor the amount of material in a medical bag. Medical staff needs to know if a medical bag is empty or if the dispensing tubes are blocked. Force measurements can track this.


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Summary

  • Customer Need / Challenge

    It is important to monitor the amount of material in a medical bag. Medical staff needs to know if a medical bag is empty or if the dispensing tubes are blocked. Force measurements can track this.

  • Interface Solution

    Using Interface Model MB Miniature Beam or MBP Miniature Beam with built-in overload protection combined with Interface instrumentation, force readings can be captured, displayed and stored for this need.

  • Results

    Health Professionals can review and monitor medical bag weights to ensure medicine is properly dispensed and bag is replaced when empty.

Materials


  • MBP Miniature Beam Load Cell
  • 9870 High-Speed High Performance TEDS Ready Indicator

How it Works


  1. MBP Miniature Beam Load Cells are installed between the medical bag and support structure. The load cell will measure the medical bag weight that is hanging from it.
  2. Using the 9870 High-Speed High Performance TEDS Ready Indicator, weight readings will display on a local indicator and can trigger open collector outputs to sound alarms or stop machines as needed.

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Products Used in this App Note

MBP Overload Protected Miniature Beam Load Cell
High Speed High Performance TEDS Ready Indicator

9870 High-Speed High Performance TEDS Ready Indicator