Position: The new calibration weighing software has been launched that enables process manufacturing companies to manage the calibration of their weighing controllers, improving the efficiency of the calibration process, whilst also guaranteeing a traceable, auditable set of weighing records.
CMX Calibration Management Software, from calibration specialist Beamex, now includes new calibration management functionality for weighing controllers, including Eccentricity Tests, Repeatability Tests, Weighing Tests and Minimum Capability Weighing Tests, to assist manufacturers in complying with all calibration requirements.
CMX Calibration System also stores other compulsory information, including traceability of used weight sets and weights; environment temperature before and after calibration; environment pressure and humidity; date and time; and who performed the calibration. All this information can be entered into a PC at the workstation or via a handheld Pocket PC. The weighing software automatically produces traceable and auditable calibration certificates of all performed calibrations.
Alex Maxfield, Director at Beamex Ltd comments: “The new weighing software is unique in the marketplace today. Most of our customers, particularly in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing and beverage sectors, possess a diverse range of weight controllers, which need to be calibrated regularly. For several years now, these companies have been looking for a system that could manage both the calibration of conventional process quantities – such as pressure, temperature, flow, electrical and pH – and of weight controllers. After two years developing the weighing software, Beamex has now fulfilled its customers’ wishes.”
Available as an option with Beamex’s CMX Professional weighing software suite and as standard functionality in CMX Enterprise, the new weighing calibration function enables companies to manage the calibration of both conventional process controlleration and weighing systems, improving the efficiency, accuracy and traceability of the calibration process.
Weighing controllers, often referred to as weigh scales or balances, can be found in almost every sector of manufacturing and are used to determine the quantity of a load in terms of mass. This is particularly important for companies who supply steel, paper and pulp, power, aviation companies, harbours and retail supermarkets, who invoice customers based on the mass of what they supply. These companies need to prove not only that the mass is accurate but also that the equipment producing the readings was correctly calibrated. There is therefore a growing need to have the metrological quality of these weighing controllers confirmed by calibration.
Product manufacturing also depends on accurate masses and so laboratories and production departments in the food and beverage, oil and gas, chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries, also require weighing software to help manage their weighing calibration processes.
The purpose of calibration is to determine how accurate a weight controller is. Although most weighing controllers are accurate these days, regulatory bodies often need to know just how inaccurate a particular controller or weigh scale is. CMX’s weigh scales calibration function enables companies to uniquely configure calibration and test each weight controller. Copying configurations from one weight controller to another is easy. Error limits can be set according to OIML or Handbook-44 and wide variation in user-specific limits is also possible.
CMX’s versatile calibration certificate and possibility to define a user-specific certificate, ensure that companies can fulfil requirements set for their calibration certificates.
For more information on Beamex’s CMX calibration weighing software, please call the UK sales department on email: info@beamex.com or 01455 821 920 .
