Everything Colorado Biomedical Services publishes on laboratory equipment field service in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
Use this page to find the exact laboratory equipment field service service you need. Everything Colorado Biomedical Services publishes for this area is listed below, starting with the full overview.
The measure of field service is first-visit resolution. A second trip for a part that could have been anticipated is downtime the facility pays for twice.
Technicians are qualified for the equipment they touch, and the qualification is on file rather than asserted.
Field service means the technician comes to the equipment, which is the right model for devices that cannot leave the department without cancelling a day's work. It puts a premium on arriving prepared.
On-site work has to fit around clinical operations rather than the other way round. Scheduling around the theatre list is part of the job, not a favour.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
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.
Findings are reported plainly, including the ones that mean a device should be taken out of service.
Field service means the technician comes to the equipment, which is the right model for devices that cannot leave the department without cancelling a day's work. It puts a premium on arriving prepared.
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.
The documentation is not administrative overhead; it is the deliverable that outlives the visit. When an inspector, an insurer or a lawyer asks what condition a device was in on a particular date, the record is the entire answer, and a facility either has it or does not.
There is no charge for the conversation that establishes whether you need this service at all.
Current developments in laboratory equipment field service, with sources for further reading.
