Pushing the Limits in ICP-MS Instrument Uptime & Throughput
Webinar Date/Time: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST
Dependable, low-maintenance instrumentation is essential for high-throughput laboratories that need to adhere to regulated or validated methods. In this webinar, you will learn about the latest advances in ICP-MS technology for routine trace elemental applications, maximizing your instrument's uptime and lab throughput.
Register Free: https://www.spectroscopyonline.com/spec_w/precious-metals
Event Overview:
Whether working in municipal, governmental, contract environmental, clinical, or pharmaceutical laboratories, your trace elemental analyses can impact human or environmental health and must comply with regulatory limits to minimize toxic metal exposure. These labs share common demands for their instrumentation, including reliability, durability, accuracy, and potentially high throughput; dependable and low-maintenance instrumentation is essential. In this webinar, you will learn about the latest innovations in ICP-MS technology for routine applications, maximizing your instrument's uptime and lab throughput, delivering increased laboratory efficiencies.
Key Learning Objectives
- Uncover the benefits of the NexION 1100 ICP-MS's Universal Collision-Reaction Cell Technology
- Learn about the NexION 1100's other proprietary technologies and how they come together to optimize your lab's efficiencies
- See how the NexION 1100 ICP-MS can seamlessly analyze 5200+ samples with almost 92% of the on-instrument time devoted to analyses.
Who Should Attend
Directors and managers of high-throughput laboratories conducting trace-elemental analyses
Speakers:
Andrew Rams
Global Product Manager, ICP-MS
PerkinElmer
Andrew Rams is global product manager for the ICP-MS portfolio at PerkinElmer. He joined the company in 2014 as a field applications scientist and moved into the product management role in 2021. He received both a BSc and an MSc from the University of Western Ontario. He previously worked with various contract analytical labs, travelling across North and South America and Africa, providing instrument training, assisting in method development, and implementing standard operating procedures in remote labs.
Ruth Merrifield
Technical Product Manager, Atomic Spectroscopy
PerkinElmer
Ruth Merrifield is the atomic spectroscopy technical product manager at PerkinElmer, with over 20 years of experience in both analytical chemistry and physics. She has a strong background in atomic spectroscopic technologies. Merrifield joined PerkinElmer in 2017 as a field application scientist before transitioning to the current role in 2024. She earned her PhD in nanoscale physics from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2007 and worked in academic positions before transitioning to PerkinElmer.
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