Many times, scales and balances are used in laboratory or manufacturing settings, and sometimes those facilities may house potentially toxic or hazardous materials. In some cases, these facilities may also need to weigh hazardous materials. Since many scales or balances… Read More
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Why a Body Composition Scale is a Must-Have for Any Medical Facility
No matter what sort of physical health your practice specializes in, body weight plays a significant role. Bodyweight not only can determine statistics about a person’s body, but it also can allow for doctors and physicians to gain accurate predictions… Read More
5 Medical Balance Maintenance Tips for the Most Accurate Results
If you work in a medical facility or laboratory, you know how important an accurate balance is. In some cases, people’s lives can depend on precise weight measurements in medicine, blood for transfusions, or surgical material. Therefore, keeping your medical… Read More
How Scales Improve Inventory Management Efficiency
Almost every business deals with inventory stock. Regardless of whether your business is in food, manufacturing, storage, shipping, or retail, you likely deal with keeping track of the inventory of the products you sell on a daily basis. Regardless of… Read More
Shock Loading and How to Prevent It
Balances and scales are sensitive instruments. And we wouldn’t have it any other way. The more sensitive a piece of weighing equipment is, the more precise measurements it can perform. But you have to use extreme caution with sensitive equipment… Read More
The Difference Between Explosion-Proof and Intrinsically Safe Equipment
When selecting a new piece of weighing equipment for your Richmond laboratory or workplace and when working in specific conditions, you will face a choice: do you need it to be explosion-proof or intrinsically safe? In order to better understand… Read More
Why You Should Calibrate a New Balance or Scale
In the world of weighing equipment, there are few topics more frequently discussed than calibration. If you’ve recently acquired a new balance or scale at your Norfolk facility, you may be reading up about how often you should calibrate it…. Read More
How to Maintain Your Medical Scales
Scales come into play in almost every industry, but their use in the medical field is easily among the most important. There’s a reason you step on a scale just about every time you visit your physician; measuring a patient’s… Read More
Balances and Scales: What’s the Difference?
The layperson might assume that balances and scales are the same thing. This is a misconception, but it is an understandable one. After all, both balances and scales achieve the same task—weighing objects. But how they do so differs substantially,… Read More
Balance and Scale Maintenance: An Overview
Running a laboratory or quality control lab is not easy. Beyond the bulk of your work itself, there is a long list of regular maintenance tasks that you have to carry out. You need to wipe down surfaces, refurbish equipment,… Read More