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Mobile Working Machines

Force Measurement Solutions: Tension Links for Cable Cranes

Jeff Placek | Force
Crawler crane

Working machines like mobile cranes are designed to hoist and move heavy loads. Despite their sturdiness, cranes do have an upper limit of how much weight they can handle. That’s where force measurement comes in. For cranes without hydraulics, tension links measure …

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Case Study: Why a Major Agricultural Machinery Company Started Using WIKA’s Level Sensors

Jeff Placek | Applications, Level
Agricultural vehicle spraying chemicals on a corn field

A U.S. manufacturer of agricultural equipment has long relied on WIKA’s pressure sensors for machine control. It now is starting to use the RLT-1000 in its sprayer tanks, a critical area for level measurement in farm sprayers, due to this level sensor’s quality, …

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Load Pins in Mobile Working Machines To Prevent Overload

Jeff Placek | Force
Crane booms

In mobile working machines, overload conditions – especially on the booms of cranes, hoists, and lifts – can result in serious safety and operational problems. Force measuring instruments, such as WIKA’s F53 series of thin-film load pins, can help save time, …

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A Supplier Development Partnership Maximizes Value, Drives Innovation

Patrick McGrath | Applications
Supplier Development Partnership

Whether you work with industrial gases or manufacture components for mobile working machines, you deserve more from your instrument supplier than just off-the-shelf technology. You need a supplier development partnership with a company that has a deep knowledge base …

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Highly Customizable Level Measurement Solution for Mobile Working Machines: Reed Chain Sensors

Jeff Placek | Level
Level measurement sensor

Accurate level measurement of tanks and vessels is key to cost-effective operations in mobile working machines like agricultural sprayers and fire trucks. However, due to various tank designs, manufacturers of such machinery can’t use standard off-the-shelf sensors. …

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Welcome to the WIKA blog

In our WIKA US blog you can expect many interesting articles on pressure, temperature, level and flow measurement, and also on the subject of calibration technology. Furthermore, there are various insights into the world of the WIKA group of companies – seen from different angles.

Most-read articles
  • Bending Beams and Shear Beams: Indispensable in Weighing Technology

  • WIKA’s iSENS HES Limit Switch Offers Unsurpassed Anti-Two Blocking Technology

  • Load Pins: What They Are and How to Use Them


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