Question

You have just purchased a piece of new equipment and must determine what testing to perform in-house and what testing to send to a reference laboratory.

Answer 1

After equipment has been purchased andinstalled, the following details need to be addressed before putting the equipment into service:

• Maintenance and operation programs should be assigned to designated persons
• Maintain the data for the use of parts and supplies
• Its always advisable to implement a written plan regarding calibration check, performance verification check, and proper operation check of the equipment;
• Scheduled maintenance program that includes periodic maintenance tasks
• Training to be given to the designated persons, who will be considered to be authorized to us the equipment.

The new equipment`s performance evaluation should be done in terms of accuracy and precision. Below is the procedure for performance evaluation.

•   Samples ate tested with known values and are compared to expected values
• Stability and uniformity of the temperature should be mainted if the equipment is temparature controlled.
• Validation processes are extremely important incase if the equipment or associated techniques are new
• Samples should be runned in parallel on both previous and new equipment and methods for a period of time to determine that the expected results.
• validation procedures should be recorded completely .