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Ohaus, a leading manufacturer of electronic scales and balances for use in laboratory, educational and industry have recently launched their Defender 3000 range of Bench Scales as part of their series of low-priced weighing products.

Ohaus Defender 3000 is an easy-to-use and durable scale that provides an economical digital bench scale, aimed for use in all-purpose weighing and simple to use counting applications within production, packaging, warehouse and shipping environments.

Despite a low-price tag the Ohaus Defender 3000 Series is not short of important weighing features. This bench scale is made from tough, carbon steel tubular-frame base design and comes equipped with backlit LCD display, built-in rechargeable battery (containing 80 hours of life), tactile keys with indicators that make operating this scale simple.

Ohaus Defender 3000 Bench Scale has several counting features:

• Minimum APW equivalent to the readability of the bench scale
• Selectable sampling sizes 5-10-20-50-100
• Final sample size and APW kept in memory
  

The OHAUS Defender 3000 Series consists of four capacity models: 30, 60, 150, 300 kg with three base sizes and numerous weighing units oz, lb, kg, lb:oz or g.

To ensure the accuracy of these scales the Ohaus Defender 3000 come with non-slip rubber leveling feed plus down stops and locking nuts to help reduce the movement of heavy loads.

The Ohaus Defender 3000 Bench Scale is the solution for weighing applications that require dependability within any weather situation, at an affordable budget.

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Scale experts at Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing (IITB) in Germany have invented new self-service retail weighing scales which can automatically recognise which type of fruit and veg have been placed onto them.

These scales use an onboard camera to take an image of the produce placed onto it. The image is then compared against other images that the vegetable scale already has stored within its own database to help identify the produce.

Customers are then shown additional options on the scales touch-screen, if further distinguish between different varieties of tomatoes, oranges or apples are required.

The German researchers are confident that their scales for retail will accurately distinguish between the various shapes, colours and ripeness stages of all the vegetables and fruits currently available in shops.

Sascha Voth, Lead Scientist from IITB suggests that plastic packaging that may surrond the vegetables will not hinder the performance of their shop scale, he says, "Even the cloudy plastic bags in which the fruit may be packaged at the counter are no problem for the scales".

These retail weighing scales are currently being trialled in 300 supermarkets throughout Europe.

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