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digiBOX Weighing

Robust Load Cell Edge-Amplifier with IT/OT Connectivity​

The new and precise weighing electronic impresses with modern automation and cloud interfaces, an intuitive web server and integrated weighing algorithms for weight control and filling with parallel real time data processing.

 

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digiBOX Weighing

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digiBOX - Weigh-Analyze-Innovate

Shift your weighing application to the next level.

Benefit from latest technologies:

  • High quality measurements for load cells
  • Integrated web server for easy-to-use parameterization and visualization with day and night mode
  • OT connectivity for machine controls
  • IT connectivity for data and process analysis and optimization
  • Integrated weighing algorithms for fast and easy setup
  • 10 parameter sets for pre-defined device settings
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Document Type Language
digiBOX Weighing; 2/4-channel edge amplifier for load cells and strain gage sensors; Data sheet; B06374 Data Sheets English
digiBOX Weighing - Data Sheet Data Sheets German
digiBOX Weighing; Amplificateur de mesure Edge 2/4 voies pour capteurs de pesage et à jauges; Caractéristiques techniques; B06376 Data Sheets French
digiBOX Weighing - Data Sheet Data Sheets Italian
digiBOX Weighing - Data Sheet Data Sheets Spanish
digiBOX Weighing; Condicionador de sinais de borda com 2/4 canais para células de carga e transdutores de deformação; Folha de dados; B06379 Data Sheets Portuguese
digiBOX Weighing; ロードセルおよびひずみゲージセンサ用、2/4チャンネルエッジアンプ; Data sheet; B06381 Data Sheets Japanese
digiBOX Weighing; 2/4 通道边缘测量放大器，用于称重传感器和应变传感器; 数据手册; B06380 Data Sheets Chinese
digiBOX Weighing - Data Sheet Data Sheets Korean
DigiBox, Quick Start Guide Quick Start Guide English, Italian, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, Japanese
digiBOX - Safety Instructions (B06353) Safety Instructions English, Italian, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, Japanese
digiBOX Weighing - User Manual Manual/Operating manual English
digiBOX Weighing - User Manual Manual/Operating manual German

Certificates and Approvals

Document Type Language
digiBOX - EU Declaration of Conformity Declaration of Conformity English, Italian, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, Japanese
digiBOX Industrial
Property Value
Legal for trade No
Number of inputs Multi channel
Integrated display No
Input Piezo electric (charge), Strain gauge full bridge
Interface ProfiNet, EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP, TCP/IP, Digital IO, Analog, openDAQ, MQTT
Housing Field mounted
Internal logic Calculated channel, Statistics
Sample rate 40000 S/s
Accuracy class 0.01 SG, 0.5 Piezo (charge)

Power Your Weighing Automation with Next generation Electronic

CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES

  • Connection of load cells and strain gauge sensors (freely configurable 2 or 4 channels)​
  • 2kS/s sampling rate per strain gauge channel with 24-bit A/D conversion, synchronous measurements
  • Robust and compact metal housing (IP67)
  • 4 digital I/Os and 4 analog outputs (voltage/current switchable) or 8 digital I/Os
  • Easy operation via the integrated web server
  • Integrated weighing algorithms for weighing, check weighing, filling and container scales
  • Sum channel with digital corner load adjustment
  • PROFINET® (IRT/RT 2KHz), daisy-chain topology possible
  • Parallel IT-level connection: TCP/IP-based protocols: openDAQ, MQTT, OPENAPI (RestAPI)
  • Ethernet (TCP/IP): web server, openAPI (Rest), MQTT
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digiBOX sensor input weighing

Sensing Technology

digiBOX Weighing can be freely configured with (2-4) inputs for load cells and strain gauge-based sensors and features an input impedance of 80 - 5k Ohms, which allows for parallel wiring of multiple load cells. HBK provides a range of sensors for load measurement:

  • Bending / beam load cell
  • Canister load cell
  • Compression / Tension load cell
  • Single Point load cell

The sensor inputs are synchronized sample synchronous, enabling challenging weighing measurements with a 2 kS/s sample rate and 24-bit AD conversion.     

digiBOX signal processing weighing

Signal Processing

digiBOX weighing features a highly-configurable signal chain and integrated weighing algorithms for all types of weighing applications:

  • 3-stage digital filter
  • Flexible user-calibration
  • Weighing functions
  • Checkweighing algorithm
  • Filling algorithm
  • Sum channel
  • Digital corner load adjustment
digiBOX IT OT connectivity weighing

IT/OT connectivity

digiBOX Weighing offers parallel IT/OT connectivity, ensuring seamless integration with a machine's PLC system while simultaneously making measurement data, calculated results and device parametrisation accessible to IT-level applications without compromising the ongoing PLC process.

This provides the IT-Level with critical process data from weighing processes, enabling new possibilities such

  • historical data storage and tracking
  • complex monitoring
  • data acquisition (miniDAQ) and analysis
  • building machine learning models
  • digital twin applications
  • Remote access and cloud integration

These capabilities are easily implemented using the integrated openDAQ™ protocol, which allows for streaming 2 kS/s sensor data and seamless integration into programming environments based on Python, C# and C++. 

Download Engineering Essentials: IT/OT Interoperability download

digiBOX Weighing Applications

digiBOX Weighing is ideally suited for Weighing applications (general weighing applications with up to 4 independent channels)

  • Checkweigher (automatic weight capture, triggered via digital I/O or level)
  • Filler (fully configurable filler application with up to 8 digital I/Os)
  • Container scale (summation function for up to 4 channels with assistant for digital corner load adjustment)
  • Silo scales
  • Tank and hopper weighing systems
  • Portable weigh bridges
  • Pallet scales
  • Platform scales
digiBOX piezoelectric based weighing
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HBK’s digiBOX Edge Amplifier Earns Top IoT Innovation Award


The Manufacturing Today Manufacturing Supplier Innovation Awards honour suppliers and solutions that are leading the way in innovation across the manufacturing sector. We’re honoured to be recognised for our digiBOX Edge Amplifier — a solution designed to push the boundaries of what's possible in industrial IoT.

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IT-Level connectivity allows for new solutions

  • It is possible to integrate the digiBOX into cloud services and realize remote access for monitoring and parametrization tasks
  • The vertical integration into productivity software is also possible and allows for analysis of product quality and enables process traceability
  • Leveraging the 2kS/s data streaming with the openDAQ protocol can be used for DAQ analysis tasks in parallel to the running process
  • Connecting the digiBOX to edge devices can be used to train machine learning algorithms for process optimization and digital twin solutions
digiBOX parallel IT OT connectivity weighing
Download Engineering Essentials: IT/OT Interoperability download

Webinar: digiBOX Measure & Automate made easy

Discover modern solutions transforming the industry: precise measurements, real-time control, and user-friendly tools – no programming skills needed.

Our experts will show you how to easily integrate HBK measurement chains into your processes. Watch live demonstrations and tackle your automation challenges in the era of Industry 4.0:

  • Insights into combining strain gauge and piezoelectric sensor inputs
  • A look at digiBOX’s innovative web server operation
  • Real-world examples of IT/OT integration for industrial applications
  • Demo

Take your systems to the next level!

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