The diagnostics are sophisticated algorithms developed using METTLER TOLEDO’s many decades of experience of how analytical sensors are affected by process conditions. Sensor specific parameters, such as the characteristics of a pH sensor’s reference system and pH-sensitive glass, have been determined through extensive, long-term aging tests. Each sensor starts with a fixed lifetime in number of days. Depending on the process conditions a sensor has been exposed to, as well as the sensor’s current ‘health’, that lifetime will adjust. If the process conditions are harsh (e.g., constant high temperature) the lifetime will drop faster than for the same sensor used in a less harsh process. Using the information on process and sensor condition, the algorithms are also able to calculate how many days remain until calibration should be performed in order to restore measurement reliability, and when the sensor should be replaced.