A modern measuring instrument must be able to communicate with its environment, i.e. transfer its measured data to peripheral equipment, execute commands from a computer, trigger alarm signals, and respond to switching pulses. To cover all possibilities while also keeping the hardware needed to a minimum all necessary interfaces have been integrated in our ALMEMO® output connector. This concept allows the user - with one and the same ALMEMO® measuring instrument - to choose freely from a wide variety of output interfaces to best suit the particular task in hand