OHAUS Explorer Pro NTEP Certified Balance for Pharmacy Compounding (US)
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Mass measurement is the critical step in a pharmacist's
prescription formulation process. It takes the most time, and
requires the utmost precision to ensure customer satisfaction.
OHAUS pharmacy balances are specifically designed to improve the
process of compounding, to assure consistency and quality of
formulations made, and to quickly and accurately count all types
and shape pills. |
Today's OHAUS balances employ a variety of weighing technologies
to ensure rapid, repeatable and accurate measurements - much faster
and more accurately than mechanical balances of the past.
While electronic balances are superior to mechanical balances with
regards to speed and accuracy, there are some inherent limitations
to the performance of electronic balances.
Solutions delivering speed, accuracy and legal
compliance is paramount in today's competitive
pharmacy industry.
Factors that can affect weighing accuracy include variable
environmental conditions, product design, weighing cell quality,
and manufacturing tolerances of the instrument. All balances need
periodic calibration to ensure continued precision and accuracy,
but most users are not aware of how often they should perform a
calibration. Even with daily adjustments, it can be difficult to
guarantee a balance is performing at optimal levels throughout the
entire workday due to changes in room temperature. Besides the lack
of certainty (how often to adjust), manually calibrating a balance
expends much time and effort, hindering speed and throughput in a
laboratory.
Frequent calibration is required for maximum
accuracy
Ensuring Accuracy
In recent years, OHAUS has developed technologies and adopted
standards to increase weighing accuracy and throughput. Pharmacists
can purchase OHAUS balances that have built-in automated
calibration mechanisms. These balances have sensors, motors, and
weights built inside, and will calibrate automatically any time an
environmental change occurs (like a temperature change) which can
affect weighing accuracy. With automatic calibration, the balance
is always compliant to factory specifications, without the need to
spend valuable time manually adjusting the balance.
Another important way to ensure maximum accuracy in your pharmacy
by using an NTEP certified weighing instrument from OHAUS. NTEP
(National Type Evaluation Program) is a strict product
certification standard administered by the National Conference on
Weights and Measures, and is a process for the testing and
evaluation of weighing equipment and critical components to ensure
their compliance with Handbook 44 requirements (Handbook 44 is a
NIST publication that spells out the various performance criteria a
balance must meet to become NTEP approved).
An OHAUS balance with an NTEP certification ensures that a given
model has undergone and met a rigorous series of performance tests,
and is legally approved for Pharmacy compounding and counting
uses. Balances with this certification also provide superior
accuracy and repeatability (ability to reproduce the same results
over time) than a balance that has not received such an
approval.
OHAUS recognizes the needs for increased accuracy and efficiency
in the pharmacy environment, and that's why most all of the
balances OHAUS offers have an internal calibration option as well
as NTEP certified versions.
All OHAUS Voyager Pro models have both automatic
internal calibration and NTEP certification standard,
as well as Formulation mode for easy compounding.
Choosing a Balance
When its time to select a balance, the choice is clear. OHAUS has
been designing and producing weighing instruments for over 100
years and offers complete ranges of NTEP certified balances for
your Pharmacy, with and without Automatic Internal calibration.
Known worldwide for accuracy and durability, OHAUS products are
designed with the features needed today and the flexibility to meet
the needs of tomorrow.
Most OHAUS balances have an internal calibration
option as well as NTEP certified versions perfect for
any Pharmacy.