Sartorius Cubis laboratory balance with Q-Apps

Sartorius has made its laboratory balance Cubis even more user friendly to ensure reliable, error-free results. The company’s Q-Apps can now be installed on any Cubis balance to guide users quickly and easily in performing any weighing application.

The apps are available for weighing applications that are frequently performed, such as determination of the minimum sample weight according to the USP, differential weighing, formula or recipe management, average weight control, application-specific calibration or pipette calibration. Once downloaded, they can be selected from the balance’s task list. Each application will guide the user step by step through the weighing process selected.

The apps ensure 100% compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) that specify workflow instructions and analytical methods. This eliminates the need for additional checking of weighing results, saving time and money in the laboratory.

Customised apps have been developed to meet special requirements that differ from standardised weighing processes. These are individually tailored to the user’s requirements and implement the work instructions and analytical procedures exactly as described in the user’s SOP. Therefore, the balance ‘adapts’ in order to meet requirements - not the other way around. 

The apps enable the balance to exchange data with a higher-level laboratory management system via web services. This interface protocol is internet-based, recognised and qualified. As a result, a Cubis balance can be quickly and easily connected to a laboratory management system, minimising the time and effort entailed by manual documentation in the lab.

Q-Apps can be downloaded from the Sartorius AppCenter and installed on the balance using an SD card. The software can be tested for 30 days free of charge before it must be licensed for a fee.