Weighing Solutions for Hazardous Areas

The Right Equipment for Complete Safety, High Reliability, Perfect Accuracy

Process safety affects the most critical parameters such as efficiency, quality and productivity, while also keeping employees—an operation's most valuable asset—protected. As Mettler Toledo, we provide you with robust and secure processes. Today's advancing technology brings with it the opportunity to implement more effective and faster safety measures. Ensuring safety requirements in every weighing and analysis instrument we develop is our primary objective. Moreover, we offer solutions that directly support process safety. For example, with Mettler Toledo Hazardous Area Weighing Solutions, you can keep your facility secure at all times. Our industrial weighing and measurement solutions, compliant with hazardous area regulations, help prevent industrial accidents. With our comprehensive solutions, we enable you to select the right equipment for your hazardous area application and operate in compliance with regulations. Safety and standards compliance are of paramount importance when working in challenging, explosion-prone environments. Safe weighing equipment is ideal for hazardous area weighing because it keeps the entire system secure regardless of the weighing application. Safe technology prevents explosions by ensuring that the energy transferred to a hazardous area remains well below the energy threshold that would trigger an explosion. As Mettler Toledo, we offer a wide range of compact scales, benchtop scales and floor scales, load cells, weighing modules and vehicle scales from which you can select the right weighing instrument. Our safe weighing terminals provide the functionality you need—from manual basic weighing applications to semi or fully automated process control—while standard communication interfaces ensure seamless integration with your process environment. In addition, battery-powered mobile operation flexibility allows you to accelerate your workflows. Consistent execution of dosing, filling and blending processes is the most critical factor for sustainable and high product quality. When selecting the right weighing equipment for use in hazardous areas, the appropriate method for correct classification and protection class must be considered. Using safe weighing instruments maintains your product quality at the highest level by delivering precise and reliable weighing results with the highest levels of protection. Regardless of where in the world you operate or which regulations you are subject to, our solutions are designed, tested and approved worldwide for maximum safety of your processes in compliance with IECEX, ATEX, FM and local standards or regulations.

Safety from Design Through Routine Operation

In hazardous areas, small errors and failures can have irreversible consequences. To prevent these consequences, standards and regulations cover not only correct equipment design and selection, but also how to maintain an equipment's functions throughout its service life. Weighing equipment for hazardous areas must be designed for safe use in such environments, and it is essential that its functions and integrity be preserved from installation throughout its entire service life. The IEC 60079 standard series covers two important areas concerning the use of electrical equipment in hazardous areas: • IEC 60079-14: Design, Selection and Installation of Equipment. • IEC 60079-17: Inspection and Maintenance of Equipment at Regular Intervals. These international standards form the basis for national occupational safety and hazardous area regulations. As Mettler Toledo, we support you with our expertise to comply with all requirements of the relevant standards, including documentation, proper data storage, data integration, correct equipment use, and regular inspection and maintenance. Uğur Tuncer Industrial Division Business Unit Manager METTLER TOLEDO Turkey