Alliance Scale Blog

NTEP Approved: Requirements, Classifications, and Applications

When conducting research for what scale to purchase for your specific business application, two of the most popular terms you will see are “legal for trade” and “NTEP approved”. While these terms might not mean anything to you now, they are extremely important certifications for your business. In all commercial applications where the product is sold in increments of weight, it is a legal requirement that the scales being used to conduct the transaction are verified as legal for trade. 

Operate Accurately with Regular Scale Calibration

The Mettler Toledo name is very familiar in most industries when it comes to accuracy in scale products. These scales are known for their wide range of industrial and niche scale options—though even their legendary accuracy can’t last forever without help from maintenance and scale repair services. 

Tips to Help You Keep Your Scales Calibrated

When you rely on an Ohaus brand scale in your workspace or lab, you count on it to deliver accurate readings and numbers. Your health, or the health of your customers, might very well depend on the results you use from your scale’s readout. However, unlike more traditional scales, scale calibration for Ohaus models isn’t an easy feat; their level of precision requires an equal level of expertise to ensure calibration results are trustworthy and do not damage the inner mechanisms—an expensive mistake to make. 

Top 5 Questions to Ask before Purchasing Hotplates and Stirrers

Whether you're researching or experimenting in your lab, you need to be able to count on your equipment for several important reasons. Beyond achieving results that are both accurate and able to be readily replicated, the right equipment can play a crucial role in protecting your lab staff, building, and even your company as a whole. Hotplates and stirrers are an integral part of laboratory solutions and testing, so it's important to make an informed choice for your needs. Here are 5 questions you should consider asking yourself when hunting for the best lab hotplates and stirrers:

The Advantages of Using Moisture Analyzers and Debunking Myths about their Usage

Quality control procedures across a broad spectrum of manufacturing, packaging, and similar operations frequently—if not always—require laboratories to include checks on the amount of moisture contained in a product. Moisture content plays an important role in products, such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, wood chips, fabrics, paint, body lotion, seeds, tobacco, potting soil, dried fruits and vegetables, catsup, and detergents.

4 Invisible Factors Damaging Your Laboratory Scale Readouts

Scales are much like printers, or computers – tools that businesses put a lot of faith into, but ones that also hold a lot of power over day-to-day operations. Even a small error or malfunction can bring important accuracy –dependent workflows to a screeching halt, and the cause isn't always immediately apparent.

3 Benefits to Repairing Your Laboratory Scale over Replacing It

The scale you use at your workplace is responsible for a lot – accurate data that is used to measure results, calculate components, and make adjustments in a variety of applications. When your scale's calibration fluctuates or shifts unexpectedly, one of the options you might consider is to replace it, as you would with any other electrical device.

Before you start pricing a new scale and making a huge dent in your operational budget, look into repairing your existing scale instead.

How Competent is Your Scale Calibration Service Provider?

Keeping your scale serviced and calibrated isn't just a smart idea for staying in line with regulations; a misread on your industrial scales can turn into a slow financial leak for your business. Whether you're over-delivering and losing out on materials or under-delivering and risking fines, fees, and broken contracts, neglecting your scale simply isn't a good business practice.

Weigh it Safe: Using the 10x Rule

Getting the right equipment for the job means buying weighing equipment that you can depend on. Without the "safe zone" – an order of magnitude that dictates your weighing scales' accuracy should be dependable to a tenth of amounts that you commonly weigh – you could be putting your company in a vulnerable, and potentially liable, situation.

Calibration Cannot Be Accurate without an Established Level of Uncertainty

Uncertainty is a core concept in the industrial weighing systems because it governs equipment accuracy. Upon the completing of calibration, you receive a certificate. This tells you first, that the weighing equipment is fit for purpose, and second, the uncertainty in the calibration. But, why is it so important to focus on the level of uncertainty of the reading?