FlexLink's Collaboration with HBM
Integration was not very difficult. To carry it out, FlexLink used the skills of HBM: “Our contact chose the most suitable components for our case and provided us with on-the-job training (over several hours) which now allows us to operate independently,” concludes Samuel Hacquin. The HBM contact in question was Bernard Vindret, an expert in dynamic weighing. The technical choice - as always - was dictated by the needs of the application. Here there was a need to carry out high-speed dynamic weighing and the load cell needed to be able to connect to the machine’s PROFINET fieldbus. At the time of selection, there was no digital load cell with such an interface, but HBM had a solution. “We have used a classical approach, with an analogue sensor combined with a digital conditioner,” states Bernard Vindret. “Or - more specifically - the PW18 (analogue) sensor combined with a ClipX BM40IE smart amplifier.”