A Proposal of Dynamic Scales for Measuring the Mass of Agricultural Products

Abstract

Abstract The rapid development of agricultural products industry in Indonesia presents a new challenge for the industry. The high demand for agricultural products makes the industry must think to manage the plantations more effectively and efficiently. One of the problems in plantations is the process and procedure of weighing agricultural products. At this time the process of weighing agricultural products takes a long time and a long procedure. In the industry, processes and procedures for weighing agricultural products as they are today being considered inefficient. Direct weighting at the time of collection is assessed to be rapid and highly beneficial to the industry. But there is a problem when weighing is done directly. If weighing is done directly at the time of collection, then the weighing is done under dynamic conditions. To be able to solve the problems in weighing the agricultural products then proposed a study to build a dynamic weighing system that can weigh dynamically where direct weighing agricultural products can be done at the time of collection. The force transducer will measure the force applied by the weighing system and the load in the form of industrial products. Because the system works in a dynamic state, the forces acting on the force transducer can be calculated using Newton’s second law m k = ( F a ) − m t where a is the deformation acceleration of the force transducer which is proportional to the acceleration of the weighing system, mt is the mass of the weighted system supported by the force transducer and mk is the mass of the product being weighed. The deformation acceleration of this force transducer is measured using a flat coil.