The miniQV-X from CANNON Instrument Company offers the laboratory an exciting new tool for convenient and rapid kinematic viscosity (KV) measurement. Occupying roughly the same footprint as a tabletop rotational viscometer, the miniQV-X automates the time-consuming sample measurement and viscometer tube wash/dry procedures associated with the ASTM D445 method, freeing the laboratory technician for other duties. The miniQV-X is designed as a rapid fully-automated viscosity analysis tool – an alternative to slower D445 compliant manual measurements. Operation of the miniQV-X is simple and quick with typical sample-to-sample cycle times of less than three minutes.