Our Services

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The ongoing performance of your equipment is integral to the research lab’s effectiveness. Performed by our integral network of trained specialists, equipment services from Avant Garde can be utilized at any point during your equipment’s lifecycle to enhance performance. Available 24/7, you can trust that Avant Garde has the technical expertise to perform the services you need where and when you need us.

Continued equipment performance is essential to the research lab’s effectiveness. Our trained equipment service specialists can ensure that your vital operations will successfully continue. Smoothly running equipment should be a constant – not a variable. 

 

Other Services

  • Emergency repair
  • Preventive maintenance programs
  • Calibration services
  • Descaling steam coils and electric steam generators
  • Tunnel washer conveyor belt replacement
  • Steam coil replacement
  • Pump replacement and upgrade
  • Dryer coil and blower system replacement
  • Operational safety analysis
  • Yearly MD State boiler inspection assistance
  • Welding services for stainless steel

 

Preventive Maintenance Inspection

Improve the performance and extend the life of your equipment with a Preventive Maintenance Inspection from Avant Garde. With a thorough inspection of your equipment performed to the original manufacturer’s specifications, a detailed Maintenance Inspection field report, and personalized recommendations for continued or improved equipment performance, you can be sure that a Performance Inspection from Avant Garde will help keep your equipment in optimal operating condition.

Your final report will include detailed recommendations to help maximize your equipment’s performance, including:

• Replacement parts
• Preventive maintenance packages
• Technology upgrades
• Spare parts stocking strategies

MD State boiler inspection assistance

The autoclaves and associated boilers and steam generators must be inspected by the State of Maryland on a yearly basis. What sends many a lab manager scrambling at the last minute is – the inspector must “inspect” the inside of the boiler as well, but he doesn’t come packing tools – that part is up to you! (Surprise…)

The service techs of Avant Garde specialize in just this sort of activity. We take the unit apart, clean out and replace anything that requires attention and then put it all back together after the inspector has left.

The link below will supply some helpful advice from our friends at the DLLR with regards to these boilers and the actual MD requirements.

 Contact us to help with your inspection

Maryland State Boiler Inspection Site   

(link: http://www.dllr.state.md.us/labor/safety/boil.shtml)

 

Autoclaves: Calibrations and Sterility Assurance

Facilities operating under the FDA’s GLP (good laboratory practice) for non-clinical lab studies must follow the guidelines set forth. This is the CFR Title 21 part 58. Equipment used for generalization, measurement or assessment of data must be calibrated and maintained. 

Avant Garde performs this equipment maintenance and keeps electronic files of all quarterly preventive maintenance equipment checks. All remedial service records are filed per your equipment’s individual ID. The cage washers and autoclaves all have temperature measurement and controlling devices that must be calibrated at least yearly. These calibrations are carried out within the FDA guidelines, and using NIST traceable testing apparatus.

For facilities using autoclaves for decontaminating general lab waste, we can perform the sterility assurance measures to qualify the autoclave cycles used. This test involves load runs with lethality indicators. These tests can assure that your loads are completely biologically inactivated. 

You can find helpful information on the FDA’s website following this link.
[CFR – Code of Federal Regulations Title 21]  

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