Preventative Services

  What are they and where's the Value?

Preventative Maintenance (PM) recognizes the normal wear mechanisms that over time
will begin to affect your system performance and preemptively deals with them to minimize
their impact on your sample load. In other words, the failures that would affect you on their
own time-table are mostly removed according to your schedule by setting up a PM visit.

GC's, LC's and Mass Spectrometers all have failure modes that relate to maintenance.
Some of them are not obvious and I find their symptoms will often lead a user to pursue
many avenues to resolve the symptom, sometimes without ever dealing with the source
causes. This translates to a lot of frustration and wasted time and money!

In the big picture, preventative maintenance takes out the main players in the wear game
and renews the system to the way it should be. Having a skilled person perform it also
brings their experience to your instrument so that any other issues that are presenting can
be recognized and dealt with as well.

GLTS has set PM procedures for dealing with the various instruments, with checklists and
basic criteria requirements showing key testing spec's. Let me know if you have any
questions, I'd be glad to discuss Preventative Maintenance with you.

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