Weighing Solutions for Hazardous Areas

Right Equipment for Reliable Results in Hazardous Areas As METTLER TOLEDO, we provide you with robust and secure processes. Process safety affects the most critical parameters such as efficiency, quality and productivity, and more importantly, it keeps employees safe. With developing technology today, it is now possible to implement more effective and faster safety measures. Ensuring compliance with safety requirements in every weighing and analysis instrument we develop is our primary objective. Moreover, we offer solutions that directly help ensure process safety. As an example of these solutions, with METTLER TOLEDO Hazardous Area Weighing Solutions, you can keep your operation secure at all times. With our industrial weighing and measurement solutions provided in compliance with hazardous area regulations, we help prevent industrial accidents. With our comprehensive hazardous area solutions, we ensure you 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-risk environments. Safe weighing equipment is ideal for weighing in hazardous areas 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 that would trigger an explosion. As METTLER TOLEDO, we offer a wide variety of compact scales, bench 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 full automation process control, while standard communication interfaces ensure unique integration with your process environment. In addition to all this, with mobile battery-powered flexibility, you can accelerate your workflows. [caption id="attachment_130016" align="aligncenter"] Weighing System Configuration in Hazardous Area Zone 1/ 21, Division 1[/caption] Consistent execution of dosing, filling and mixing processes is the most critical point 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 provides accurate and reliable weighing results with the highest levels of protection, maintaining your product quality at the highest level. Wherever in the world and under whichever regulation you operate, our solutions are designed and tested to comply with IECEX, ATEX, FM and local standards or regulations, and are approved worldwide for maximum safety of your processes.

Safety from Design to Routine Operation

In hazardous areas, small errors and malfunctions can produce irreversible consequences. To prevent these consequences, standards and regulations cover not only the 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 on the use of electrical equipment in hazardous areas covers two important areas: [caption id="attachment_130017" align="aligncenter"] Hazardous Area Classification According to IEC EN 60079-10[/caption] • IEC 60079-14: Design, Selection and Installation of Equipment • IEC 60079-17: Regular Inspection and Maintenance of Equipment These international standards form the basis for national occupational safety and hazardous area regulations. As METTLER TOLEDO, we support you with our expertise in ensuring compliance with all requirements of the relevant standards, documentation, correct data storage, data integration, correct use of equipment and regular inspection and maintenance.

Uğur Tuncer Business Unit Manager Industrial Division METTLER TOLEDO