The BroadWeigh portable wireless system offers real-time, simple, effective and accurate load monitoring for rigging professionals, safety officials and site managers enabling them to monitor and log the precise loads on any given rigging point.
Central to the design of the BroadWeigh system are Crosby shackles equipped with a high accuracy, wireless load pin that reports data remotely to a computer or a handheld display. The system is able to monitor multiple load cells and can trigger an alarm should a load exceed a preset parameter. During this project the load data from each wireless load cell shackle was displayed on a computer screen.
David Bond, BroadWeigh's North American representative, worked together with Guy Wallace and the Westbury National Show Systems team to address their requirements and concerns prior to the purchase as well as instruction and support on site during the operation. This instruction included both the hardware and software elements of the system.
"The lifting procedure was a critical stage of the installation," said Bond. "Should one hoist not support its equal part of the load, then that corner would drop and the structure would tilt on just two opposite suspension points, grossly overloading those two points. This could have caused a catastrophic failure. The BroadWeigh wireless system enabled the team to closely and accurately monitor the situation throughout the procedure."
(Jim Evans)
