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Scalehead integration with Vinsight

Overview

Scalehead integration in Vinsight allows weight data to be automatically captured from scaleheads or weighbridges during fruit receival. This improves both speed and accuracy when recording weights at the beginning of the production process. It is available to all customers on our “Premium Production” subscriptions.

This guide outlines the required hardware setup, responsibilities, and some helpful tips for successfully connecting your scale equipment to Vinsight.

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As a part of the process of receiving fruit, Vinsight has features that can automatically take data from a connection to your scaleheads or weighbridges. This improves speed and accuracy of your weight data at the beginning of the production process.

While the responsibility of setting up hardware and testing the connection is yours, below is a useful checklist and some helpful hints to getting set up successfully.

Setup Checklist

You to provide:

  1. Scales with a scalehead that is connected to a Windows laptop or similar.
  2. The Windows laptop must be connected to the internet and have at least .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
  3. The connection between these will often be an RS232 connector with a USB adapter.
  4. You must have your technical supplier test the connection using a method similar to this:

    Troubleshooting Hardware Connection between the Weighbridge and your Computer



    so you can verify independently that data is getting to the PC.

  5. Your staff must be able to routinely perform the test in step 4, as this is the line of responsibility between you and Vinsight.
  6. Optionally, a thermal printer to print fruit receipts.

Vinsight to provide:

  1. A small application installed on the laptop that reads the data from the scalehead and sends it to the internet for use in the main Vinsight application.
  2. You then use Vinsight to consume the weight data in the fruit receival workspace:

    Receiving a Booked Delivery


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Tips and Learnings

What kind of PC do I need?

A small notebook PC is all that is strictly needed, as the PC only needs to read the data and send it to the internet. The data can then be used anywhere, such as on an iPad.

You should place the PC somewhere weatherproof yet accessible for configuration.