3 Reasons to Consider Contract Maintenance for Your Laboratory Equipment
Your laboratory’s equipment is what drives the research that your staff can perform. This means that if the equipment isn’t working, you can’t be running samples; which is why uptime is one of the most critical factors in staying in business. However, it’s difficult to achieve maximum uptime if your instrumentation suffers from lack of maintenance or is in need of repair. It’s even harder to accomplish if your staff is tasked with the maintenance and repairs of the instrumentation. This why having a contract service agreement with an experienced, expert partner is so important. You will have access to a team of experts that will provide the periodic maintenance that are essential to the proper functionality of your assets and make any necessary repairs that will ensure that your equipment remains working, and your staff remains discovering. Here are three important reasons to strongly consider a contract maintenance agreement for your lab.
Streamlined, Efficient Service for Your Laboratory Equipment
A contract service agreement for your laboratory’s equipment provides a single point of contact that eliminates all of the friction of juggling the requirements of maintenance and repairs. Whether it be through our Lab Asset Management program, managing multiple vendors, departments, specialties, and timetables or as your vendor of choice for specific instruments, Overbrook can make a complex and inefficient undertaking simple and efficient. With a contract maintenance partner, many of the duties and corresponding administrative tasks can be eliminated; meaning less cost, less time, and more science.
Laboratory Cost Savings
Your lab instrumentation is expensive. If something goes wrong, a repair or replacement can take a significant toll on your productivity. With periodic maintenance provided through a contract service agreement, the amount of necessary repairs drops dramatically. And in the case that an asset does need to be repaired, your service partner will be available to do the required work. This means no more surprise expensive repairs, no more costly replacements, and more time and money to reinvest back into your research.
Improved Performance with Increased Equipment Uptime
When your instrumentation is down, so is your staff. Deadlines get missed, budgets get exceeded, hard work and potential discovery get lost. However, when your equipment is appropriately maintained, and major repairs are avoided, downtime gets mitigated. Knowing that your equipment will be up and running when needed, every time it’s needed, provides not only peace of mind, but enhanced performance.
These are three reasons to leverage the advantages of a contract maintenance agreement for your laboratory’s equipment. Each reason may address different pain points and priorities for each unique situation, and there are many other benefits as well. Reducing costs, improving performance, and increasing efficiencies are all strategic advantages that all organizations can use to create more opportunities. The expert team at Overbrook is here to handle your laboratory’s equipment maintenance and service needs. You no longer need to worry about downtime, missed deadlines, and exceeding budgets, and get the peace of mind that your assets will be ready when you need them.
