Avoid Errors with Intuitive User Menus and Prompting

Human errors are one of the main sources for false and unreliable weighing results. Intuitive user menus and prompting significantly reduce errors caused by operators. These functions guide users safely and efficiently through their daily weighing and counting tasks.

No matter how diverse or complex your application might be, METTLER TOLEDO counting scales help you simplify your processes on different levels. The IND465/BBx462 provides intuitive menus, an easy-to-read display, user-definable function keys and customized units (m3, liter, etc.). This makes your everyday operations simpler and improves the quality of your weighing process. Moreover, inventory can be efficiently managed with an article database for more than 1500 data records. Articles can be defined individually and entered or called up easily via barcode scanner or using the keyboard. The built-in host function helps to maintain overview. With this function you can still access just one central database, regardless of whether this is stored on your PC or in a scale.

Reduce Complexity with User-prompting
One of the most helpful functions of the IND465/BBx462 scales is the user-prompting function. It defines whether a user will be guided actively and step by step through his operating procedure or not. The choice is either to use one of the pre-defined user prompting (“Active Prompting”) procedures or to define a specific procedure. Operations become simpler and errors are reduced or even completely eliminated.

The Choice of Predefined User-Prompting Procedures:

Tare/Sample
On the display the instruction “Load Scale and Tare” appears. After the operator has loaded the container and touched the TARE key, the scale prompts him to “Load Reference Pieces or Key in”. When this is done and the number of reference pieces is entered, the operator can add pieces to the container until the final count is reached.

Sample/Tare
This function is the opposite as the Tare/Sample. The display first reads “Load Reference Pieces or Key in”, prompting the operator to hand count a quantity of pieces and place them on the scale, enter the number of pieces in the sample and then remove them from the scale. “Load Scale and Tare” is the next instruction prompting the operator to load a container onto the scale and touch the TARE key. Now the operator can add pieces to the container until the final count is reached. This mode is more suited for counting pieces out of a container. In this application the operator places a filled container on the scale instead of an empty container and after taring the filled container he counts pieces by removing them from the container.

Handsfree
This prompting sequence operates like Tare/Sample except the operator is not required to touch any keys. The scale will automatically tare after the user loads an empty container and the weight has settled.

User-defined
This function allows the supervisor to choose his own defined user prompting (“Def. User Prompt”) and to first define a specific flow process. The user, with the aid of the defined working steps, can then easily and quickly work through a complete flow process. Defined user prompt functionality is easy to establish.