Empower Tips: Ask Me Anything About the Top Tips To Simplify Workflows and Your Day

In Quality Control laboratories, your work is the final critical testing step to ensure you have the necessary quality for your end customers.

As QC Scientists, you are faced with an ever-increasing workload, tasked with analyzing more samples in a shorter period of time and quickly turning around required reviews before batches can be released for shipment. The Empower Tip of the Week blog was started in 2017 with the focus on using Empower more effectively to help make your workflow in the laboratory more efficient.

As we think about your workflow in Quality Control, we will highlight tips to make the following easier:

• Getting started quickly: Comprehensive Sample Set Methods to prime, purge and equilibrate your instrument

• Triggers to stop you if there is a problem: Interactive System Suitability to automatically stop your instrument if system suitability fails

• Streamlining data review: Configure Review to automatically load and apply the Method Set for easier data review

• Streamlining result review: Review Results by Exception to flag out of specification Results

• Leveraging electronic workflows: Use Electronic Signatures on Report Methods

• Identify issues and ongoing monitor: Use Control Charts for data tracking and trending

Please join us for a live discussion. As always, don’t forget to bring your questions for this exclusive opportunity to ask our experts anything about Empower Software!

Presenter: Neil Lander (Principal Product Manager - Informatics Group, Waters Corporation)

Neil has worked for Waters Corporation since 1994 and has held a variety of positions including Technical Support Specialist, Technical Trainer, Manager Customer Education and currently, Principal Marketing Manager in Waters in the Informatics group. Neil provides internal support for Empower CDS software and is focused on developing laboratory software solutions that help organizations achieve their scientific and operational objectives. Prior to joining Waters Corporation, he was an analytical chemist where he gained experience in both the cosmetics and specialty chemical industries.