Hiring your scales: a quick fix
Any lack of production capacity due to vital equipment damage or failure can soon impact on your business, leading to customers being let down, profits reducing and employees becoming frustrated.
If you’re stocktaking, need a short-term solution while your existing scales are out for repair or being replaced, or have a batch of products that need weighing, then hiring scales is an option.
There is no shortage of businesses offering short-term weighing scales hire and scale hire services.
If this is something that you are currently investigating, then most leading scale specialists have a specialised hire division to help customers deal with these difficult periods.
Be sure to hire scales that perfectly match your requirements, to avoid unnecessary downtime.
Buying your own scales gives you surety
While scale hire is often a short-term solution, over a longer period, hiring doesn’t make good financial sense.
Purchasing equipment gives you the surety of access, fixed capital costs that you understand and can budget for, and for your staff, the reliability and consistency of working with equipment and processes that they know and are comfortable with.
Weight determination is crucial
The accurate measurement of weight plays a vital role in any industry.
Weight determination is crucial for a wide range of different reasons - including commercial, legislative and safety purposes.
Regular maintenance and calibration is essential to ensure weighing equipment continues to provide accurate and reliable readings, particularly if used in heavy-duty industrial conditions. While routine maintenance can often be done in-house, it may be necessary for your scale equipment to be removed, or even sent away for repair.
Hiring and Purchasing – what do you need?
Hiring and purchasing scale equipment both have their place, and together ensure that businesses continue to operate at optimal efficiency levels.
So whether you hire or purchase your scale equipment is down to your circumstances – it’s ensuring continuity that really counts.
