Everything Nevada Biomedical Services publishes on laboratory equipment preventive maintenance in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
This is the index for laboratory equipment preventive maintenance. If you already know which service you need, go straight to it below; if not, the full overview explains what each one covers.
Preventive maintenance is the work you do so the repair call never happens. Inspection, cleaning, wear-part replacement and performance verification, on a schedule set by the manufacturer and the device's own history — done properly it converts unplanned downtime into planned downtime, which is the whole point.
Every visit produces documentation an inspector can read without a translator: what was done, to what standard, by whom, and when it is next due.
A preventive maintenance programme is only as good as its completion rate. A schedule that is 70 percent complete is not a programme; it is a list of devices someone intended to look at, and inspectors read the gap rather than the intent.
The value of preventive maintenance shows up in what does not happen: the procedure that is not cancelled, the loaner that is not needed, the overnight call that does not come. That makes it easy to underfund and expensive to have underfunded.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
Technicians are qualified for the equipment they touch, and the qualification is on file rather than asserted.
Findings are reported plainly, including the ones that mean a device should be taken out of service.
A preventive maintenance programme is only as good as its completion rate. A schedule that is 70 percent complete is not a programme; it is a list of devices someone intended to look at, and inspectors read the gap rather than the intent.
Scope is written down before the work begins, including what is excluded. Most disputes about equipment service are really disputes about scope that nobody put in writing.
A complete equipment history changes capital planning from an argument into an evidence question. Departments that can show failure rates and repair spend per device get replacement budget; departments that cannot, do not.
If you are not sure which of these pages applies to your equipment, describe the situation and a technician will tell you what the work actually requires rather than what the largest quote would cover.
Current developments in laboratory equipment preventive maintenance, with sources for further reading.
