Crane scale assembly plays important safety role for Virgin Atlantic Airways A remote radio link crane scale assembly, developed by Weightron Bilanciai Ltd, is playing an important safety role for Virgin Atlantic Airways at their Heathrow Maintenance Hangar. Supplied via mechanical handling experts, Sheffield based Street CraneXpress (SCX), the Weightron system consists of a Model LD rechargeable 20 tonne capacity crane scale, a bi-directional UHF radio link, D800 weight terminal and audible alarm. The D800 terminal features two set-points, which trigger the 100 dB alarm if pre-set loads are exceeded. The first set-point can be manually set by engineers at a value incrementally above the known weight of the component being lifted. The second acts as a maximum crane system overload warning

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