SmartCal™

Achieving accurate moisture analysis is crucial for maintaining product quality, shelf life, and performance across various industries.

This SelectScience guide provides expert insights to mastering moisture analysis, highlighting the advantages of halogen moisture analyzers over traditional drying oven methods. It offers practical tips into ensuring reliable results through routine verification, effective cleaning techniques, and modernized digital record-keeping. Additionally, it explores moisture control strategies for food safety, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, emphasizing the importance of routine performance testing with advanced tools like SmartCal™.

Download your free copy to see how implementing these best practices can optimize your processes, enhance data accuracy, and improve overall product reliability.

Resource details:

• Document type: SelectScience guide
• Page count: 5
• Read time: 8 mins
• Edition: 1st

Regular verification of measuring devices is essential to ensure valid results and maintain quality. Routine calibration and preventative maintenance of moisture analyzers should be performed by a qualified service engineer, but additional performance testing between service intervals gives an analyst assurance and confidence that their measurements are consistently correct. Learn more about SmartCal™ – a unique test substance with a specific moisture content – that provides a rapid method for verification of the overall performance of a moisture analyzer in just 10 minutes, testing both the heating and the weighing elements simultaneously. It also provides the ability to monitor the performance of a moisture analyzer over time, with straightforward graphical methods that are regulatory compliant.

Regular calibration of moisture analyzers is essential to ensuring valid results. Whilst routine calibrations and preventative maintenance should be carried out by trained service engineers, this white paper illustrates a fast and convenient interim test using SmartCalTM, providing confidence that measurements are consistently accurate.

Moisture affects the processibility, shelf life, usability and quality of many products such as pharmaceutical substances, plastics and foods. Information about and monitoring of moisture content is therefore very important. Most substances have an optimum moisture content for obtaining the best possible processing results and therefore attaining maximum quality. Furthermore, moisture content impacts on price and there are statutory rules for some products governing the maximum permissible moisture content (e.g. as defined by national food regulations).

This white paper describes the influences and sources of error which may be present when conducting moisture analyses. It discusses the routine tests which are necessary to ensure reliable determination of the moisture content and correct functioning of the instrument. The recommended tests and their frequencies are presented in the framework of a risk-based approach.

May 6, 2025 at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT

Moisture content is a critical factor that influences various aspects of a product, including its processability, shelf life, usability, and overall quality. This makes it an important factor to monitor accurately otherwise it can lead to inconsistencies in performance and even non-compliance with industry standards.

Learn how to effectively measure moisture content of your products in this informative webinar with Andrea Mühleis from METTLER TOLEDO. She will share insights to understand moisture determination and top tips to achieve accurate and reliable moisture results.

She will also highlight the differences between halogen heating technology and drying oven technology as well as how to correctly prepare samples for analysis to provide you with valuable strategies to optimize your moisture determination.

Key learning objectives:

• Explore the different methods used for moisture analysis
• Learn techniques for sample preparation in moisture analysis
• Discover the method development to match results from the drying oven
• Uncover what routine testing can be performed for moisture analyzers

Who should attend?

• Quality control professionals, laboratory technicians, analysts, and researchers in industries including food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, who require accurate moisture analysis for product quality and development.
• Production managers and academic researchers who need to understand moisture control techniques for manufacturing consistency and educational purposes.

Certificate of attendance
If you attend the live webinar, you will automatically receive a certificate of attendance, including a learning outcomes summary, for continuing education purposes.

If you view the on-demand webinar, you can request a certificate of attendance by emailing editor@selectscience.net.