Your Concrete Weighing Quality Assurance Plan

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Weighing Results You Can Trust

Weighing Results You Can Trust

Only a proper calibration of your balances and scales allows you to assess how reliable your weighing results are. See how calibration can help ensure weighing accuracy and product quality. Več

The Right Test Weights for Your Needs

The Right Test Weights for Your Needs

Find OIML or ASTM test weights ranging from 1 mg up to 5 tons in all accuracy classes with or without certificate to meet your testing needs and assure ongoing weighing performance. Več

Maximize Uptime and Peace of Mind

Maximize Uptime and Peace of Mind

Prevent failures, extend equipment lifetime, enhance ongoing productivity and reduce operating costs with Preventive Maintenance. Več

1. How often do I need to calibrate my balance and scale?

Calibration is an investigation at a specific point in time and needs to be repeated regularly to ensure continued accuracy over your equipment's lifetime.

The frequency of calibration depends on the use of the device, the environment, and the importance of the weighing results.

To help answer this question, METTLER TOLEDO offers the GWP® Verification service, which gives you an individual, risk-based calibration and service schedule–together with a routine testing plan–to keep your weighing devices accurate over their lifetime and keep your customers happy.

2. How often do I need to perform routine testing on my balances and scales?

The frequency of your routine testing will depend on the risks that are part of your weighing process and how those risks could affect your results.

If the risk to accuracy, your process, or your product quality is high, you will need to perform testing more frequently.

To find out the specific routine testing frequency for your individual process, METTLER TOLEDO offers the GWP® Verification service. This service will define your ideal routine testing plan, including the test frequency, methods, weights and tolerances.

3. How long is a GWP® Verification valid?

GWP® Verification requires an update with every new calibration, change of process requirements, or change in operating environment. From your second GWP® Verification onwards, you will receive the GWP® Re-Verification Report. This includes a trend chart of your balance or scale, allowing you to keep track of the performance of your device over time. This satisfies the highest demand for documentation and is also available for multiple devices (as a GWP® Re-Verification Summary Report).

4. What is the basis for a GWP® Verification?

The GWP® Verification is based on an up-to-date calibration that documents the measurement uncertainty of weighing equipment in its actual environment.

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5. What is the safe weighing range?

What is the safe weighing range?
What is the safe weighing range?

The safe weighing range is the range in which the balance or scale gives the most accurate results. This range lies between a scientifically calibrated lower limit (minimum weight determined through calibration) to which a safety margin is added (defined by the selected safety factor) and the maximum limit (capacity) of a balance or scale. Process quality requirements are met if the smallest net weight lies within the safe weighing range.

Since most manufacturers do not declare the lower limits of their devices, it's important to define your safe weighing range. 

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Watch this explanation video on the safe weighing range

6. What is the minimum weight?

What is the minimum weight?
What is the minimum weight?

The minimum weight is the smallest load that can be weighed with a certain balance or scale that still lies within your accuracy requirements (defined by the weighing tolerance in %). It is defined by the relative measurement uncertainty of the device (in %) and your defined weighing tolerance (in %).

7. What is the smallest net weight?

The smallest net weight is the smallest amount of sample mass that the user intends to weigh during the day-to-day usage of the balance or scale; it is a user requirement and not an equipment property. If the smallest net weight equals or is larger than the minimum weight value determined for the required tolerance and safety factor, weighing results adhere to user requirements and are considered accurate.