ÄKTA basic care and troubleshooting

Proper care and maintenance of your ÄKTA chromatography system is essential to ensure optimal performance. Failure to maintain your system can lead to poor results, significant downtime, costly repairs, and substantial loss of time and money. In this webinar, we will discuss some simple strategies to keep your ÄKTA running smoothly. This includes discussions on proper shutdown and storage, bringing your ÄKTA back online, and calibrations and testing you can perform to verify everything is working properly. We’ll also discuss the basic care steps you should take, fundamental troubleshooting, and means of resolving common problems.

Speaker:
Jim Tomfohrde
Field Technical Leader - Installations, Cytiva

Jim Tomfohrde has been with Cytiva since 2003 and has held several positions within the service department working exclusively with ÄKTA chromatography instruments. He has worked as a field service engineer, regional technical leader, trainer, and is currently a member of the service support group for lab-scale chromatography instruments. In addition to providing training, mentoring, and support for our service engineers, he also conducts on-site training for customers to help them better understand their instruments and how to care for them. He has a BS degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and currently lives in Leesburg, Virginia, U.S.