SWE Workshop: Relocation of Multiple R&D Lab Facilities to a Single-Site Location

SWE Workshop

Relocation of Multiple R&D Lab Facilities
to a Single-Site Location

SWE 4th Annual Laboratory Instrument Qualification
and System Validation Conference

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WALTHAM, Mass. (Aug. 23, 2007)- A workshop detailing the consolidation of five separate R&D facilities into a new center for research and technology will be presented in September by Joe Tehrani, PhD, Multivendor Service, Validation and Relocation Business Leader for PerkinElmer Life & Analytical Sciences.

The workshop will be presented at the SWE 4th Annual Laboratory Instrument Qualification and System Validation Conference, Sept. 17-18, 2007, at the Tremont Marriot in Boston, MA.

In this workshop, Dr. Tehrani will discuss the timetable and logistics for this large-scale project, which includes the relocation of more than 1,500 scientific instruments including large-scale equipment requiring rigging and other "special-handling" items, NMR, EPR, TEM, SEM, Autoclaves and Laser Optics. Other instruments to be moved include: LCMS, GCMS, Microscopes, Custom-made Equipment, Refrigerators, Freezers, Incubators, and Robotics.

In addition to the relocation of scientific instruments, the technical team will oversee coordination of all activities related to the move. The process includes compiling an accurate inventory of all goods (instruments, samples, contents of drawers, lab supplies and personal items) and coordination of all activities through detailed scheduling and resource allocation.

The workshop highlights the relocation process, including:

	Inventory and bar-coding of all equipment
	Labeling all equipment and components to verify current location, move date, final location, and information about related components
	Pre-move benchmarking of over 300 high-end instruments to establish working status of these equipment prior to move
	Coordination of the dismantling of specialized equipment with selected vendors
	Dismantling, packing, and labeling of lab equipment
	Relocation of instruments; supplies; large and specialized equipment; and personal items
	Setup and commissioning of equipment and holistic testing § Coordinated setup of specialized equipment with selected vendors
	Repair and preventive maintenance of equipment (LCMS, GCMS, HPLC, GC)
	Multivendor IQ / OQ and calibration of equipment including HPLC, LCMS, GC, GCMS, FTIR, UV-Vis Spectrophotometers, Particle size analyzers, Titrators, Balances, pH Meters, Refrigerators, and Freezers from various vendors including Agilent, Waters, Shimadzu, Thermo, GE/Amersham, Varian, Bruker, ABI, and others.

PerkinElmer technical staff will provide all required services, including benchmarking, dismantling, setup, repair, calibration, qualification, and completion of all IQ/OQ documents according to GLP/GMP guidelines and Good Documentation Practices (GDP).

Success in this project is defined by three overriding parameters:

	Meeting all move deadlines, including deadlines for each phase of the move as well as the entire project.
	Staying within the established budget.
	Achieving a 100% acceptance rate for instruments post-move, that is: Each instrument will be up and operational as required by the client.

Dr. Tehrani, who has 17 patents to his name, established Biomatic Inc., a high-technology qualification and service company in 1998. Biomatic specialized in multivendor IQ OQ instrument qualification/validation as well as multivendor instrument service and repair. PerkinElmer Inc. acquired Biomatic in November 2005.

For more information about the SWE conferences visit the SWE website (http://www.sweinc.biz) where a PDF of the conference brochure is available.

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