3 Good Questions About Precision Scales & Analytical Balances

By Rachel Kohn | February 2, 2010

Digital scales and balances are precision instruments.  People using these instruments should be able to answer these questions:

1.  How secure is your weighing data?

2. How accurate are your scales?

3. What is the degree of protection from dust and moisture?

How secure is your weighing data? A tough question if poor records are kept.  That’s why balance connection software is the great enabler for accurate record keeping in all weighing and measuring applications subject to ISO9000 and GLP standards.

An answer can be found in Kern’s 32 bit software for Windows 95/98/NT/XP.  It communicates between balances and programs such as Excel, Word, Access and others via a serial interface.  Weight increments are inserted by the touch of a key or on a time-controlled basis to the current cursor location.  This eliminates typing errors that may occur during manual inputting of weight increments.

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