Critical service to prevent downtime
The demands being placed on scientific instrumentation in today’s labs are extreme. Instrumentation must perform with reliability, accuracy, and sensitivity despite a variety of adverse factors such as the environment, daily usage, and diversity of users and level of care which can negatively impact an instrument’s daily performance as well as shorten its lifespan.

In order meet these expectations, continuous care must be given to your laboratory’s instrumentation. A critical component to continuous care is regular preventive maintenance.

Benefits of preventive maintenance:

• Prevention of downtime
• Extension of the useful life of the instrument
• Less probability of a costly breakdown
• More reliable instrument
• Increased likelihood that the instrument will maintain its specifications
• Minimization of potential contamination issues
• A safer instrument for staff

Preventive Maintenance – a function of PerkinElmer’s instrument design
OneSource Laboratory Services raises the bar of traditional preventive maintenance. Rather than just a “tune-up” or a simple inspection of an instrument, at PerkinElmer, preventive maintenance is a critical component of the design process. The ability to perform preventive maintenance on an instrument is a custom protocol carefully worked into an instrument’s design. Preventive maintenance built specifically for your instrument ensures that you are able to take appropriate action before any potential downtime occurs.

Not only preventative, but predictive maintenance
Preventive Maintenance performed by PerkinElmer OneSource Laboratory Service engineers also encompasses predictive maintenance. Our engineers due to years of experience can diagnose impending problems and propose remedial actions that need to be taken to avoid system failure. Knowing the signs of wear, corrosion, discoloration, evidence of rubbing, damage, presence of foreign objects, missing parts or the presence of wrong parts is part of the diagnostic which is interpreted for impact on future instrument performance. Exacting measurements on alignment of pumps, drives piping, dynamic balance of rotating assemblies and shaft axial variances are just examples of the analysis that is customized for each instrument.

Only Qualified Personnel should conduct Preventive Maintenance
Preventive maintenance is a crucial part in maintaining instrument functionality. Inadequate protection of an instrument or worse yet damage due to the application of incorrect consumables can be caused when unqualified personnel attempt to do preventive maintenance. Seals, for example, are only as insignificant as the damage caused by using the incorrect one. Consumable selection has been optimized as part of the custom designed preventive maintenance protocol for each PerkinElmer instrument.

In addition, breakthrough instrument technology comes with associated hazards such as high voltage transformers and lasers. Proper safety protocol is observed by PerkinElmer engineers who have comprehensive insurance protection to ensure your place of work is not affected by any on the job injuries.

Preventive Maintenance – make it a part of your lab’s Good Laboratory Practices (GLP)
The reality today is that many instruments are subject to inadequate maintenance leading to premature additional capital expenditure for replacement instruments. Make Preventive Maintenance one of your labs core competencies by incorporating the manufacturer recommended Preventive Maintenance schedule into your lab’s GLP.