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Power Quality in the Lab: The Critical Variable You Can’t Ignore 

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Understand why electricity and power matter in your lab, and learn how to control the 'Power Quality Variable'.

By viewing this roundtable, you will learn:

  • How modern LCMS, GCMS, ICPMS, HPLC, GCs and mass spectrometers place fundamentally different demands on lab infrastructure—and how to align lab teams, facilities, and vendors before go-live.
  • The most common (and least expensive) infrastructure upgrades that prevent downtime—yet are routinely missed or buried in site prep documentation.
  • Critical preventive maintenance blind spots that can become single points of failure and quietly destroy throughput if left unaddressed.
  • How to set up a typical  LCMS system for long-term success.
  • How poor power quality can hurt the integrity of your data. 

Event Overview

In this session, lab managers and scientists will learn why most instrument delays and unplanned downtime are not caused by the instrument itself—but by overlooked facility and infrastructure gaps that are entirely preventable.

Today’s AI-enabled instruments and integrated lab systems are being deployed into infrastructure designed for a refrigerator that used to sit in the same spot. The result? Predictable failures hidden deep inside 400-page site prep documents and routine maintenance schedules. This session will show you how to find—and fix—those issues before they derail your test results or waste your time restarting tests from unplanned instrument downtime.

Who should view it?

Anyone who has been frustrated when their lab instrumentation locks-up, doesn’t complete tests, or has inaccurate results. 

What you need to know:

Format: On demand

Duration: Approximately 30 minutes

Speakers

  • Craig Kalie headshot

    Craig Kalie

    Consultant, NXT Power, LLC

    Craig Kalie is a consultant with NXT Power, LLC, and the founder of Protect the Process. With extensive experience leading national and global technology deployments, Craig helps laboratories and medical device organizations improve implementation success, protect critical assets, and maximize uptime through better infrastructure and process alignment.

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    Jim Ference

    Consultant, NXT Power, LLC

    Jim Ference, is a consultant with NXT Power, LLC. He has more than 38 years of experience assisting analytical and clinical OEMs, researchers, scientists and laboratory managers in developing good power quality strategies that result in higher instrument reliability, availability and data integrity.

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