Hands-on GC-MS maintenance
- Duration: 1 day for live courses
- Experience level: Intermediate
- Delivery methods: Face-to-face | Offsite training & consultancy | Onsite training & consultancy | Tailored training |
- Type of course: Universal
- Applicable to manufacturer(s): Agilent | Bruker | Leco | PerkinElmer | Scion | Shimadzu | SRI | Thermo | Varian | Waters |
- CPD Approved: Approved
- Scheduled course price: £650.00 + TAX per delegate
- Course discounts: RSC CAMS HEaTED Cambridge Network members receive a discount on this course
Your Hands-on approach to learning gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) maintenance
Day 4 of our Hands-on GC and GC-MS
Combine the practical theory of GC-MS maintenance with laboratory-based exercises in this Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) approved training for the purposes of Continued Professional Development (CPD). This course is designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, enabling you to confidently maintain GC-MS instrumentation within the laboratory.
This Hands-on course is ideal for students, analysts and professionals who want to gain practical experience with all aspects of GC-MS maintenance including leak checking, tuning, vacuum systems, ion sources, calibration gases, detectors and preventative maintenance procedures. Learn how to identify common issues affecting GC-MS performance and develop the practical skills needed to maximise instrument uptime, sensitivity and reliability.
Why should I join?
On completion, you will have both the theoretical knowledge and practical experience required to confidently maintain GC-MS systems in your laboratory.
This Hands-on GC-MS maintenance course gives you:
- Strong practical skills for maintaining and troubleshooting GC-MS instrumentation
- Practical guidance on leak checking, tuning and vacuum system maintenance
- Hands-on experience maintaining ion sources, filaments and calibration systems
- A structured approach to preventative maintenance planning
- Practical techniques for identifying contamination, air leaks and sensitivity loss
- Experience performing routine vacuum system and detector maintenance
- Confidence interpreting tune reports and maintenance-related performance issues
What would I learn?
A user-friendly GC-MS maintenance course that combines in-depth theory with practical laboratory exercises, you will learn:
- How to perform air and water checks and identify vacuum leaks
- The purpose and interpretation of GC-MS tuning procedures
- How vacuum systems operate and how to maintain pumps, seals and associated components
- How to safely vent and pump down a mass spectrometer
- Routine maintenance procedures for GC-MS interfaces and columns
- How to inspect, clean and maintain ion sources and associated components
- The maintenance requirements of filaments, calibration gas systems and detectors
- Approaches to troubleshooting contamination, sensitivity loss and poor instrument performance
What knowledge will I gain?
- Understand the critical role of preventative maintenance in ensuring reliable GC-MS performance
- Be confident discussing leak detection, tuning procedures and vacuum system operation
- Understand how air, water and contamination affect sensitivity, mass spectral quality and instrument reliability
- Explain the maintenance requirements of vacuum pumps, ion sources, calibration systems and detectors
- Understand how tuning verifies instrument performance and analytical readiness
- Recognise symptoms of contamination and developing faults before they affect analytical results
- Understand correct procedures for venting, servicing and returning GC-MS systems to operation
- Diagnose common causes of poor sensitivity, instability and tuning failures
- Create practical preventative maintenance schedules tailored to laboratory workloads and applications
Is this course for me?
This RSC approved for purposes of CPD training is designed for anyone responsible for maintaining, operating or supporting GC-MS systems, including:
- Analysts & technicians requiring training or a clear structured refresher of GC and GC-MS
- Laboratory or line managers overseeing GC and GC-MS instrumentation
- Data analysts and report writers who interpret results but don’t use the instruments
- Service and consultant engineers who need both a theoretical and a hands-on reminder
- Sales, marketing or commercial teams working with GC and GC-MS systems, consumables, data or laboratory services
If GC and GC-MS touches your work in any way, this well-planned course delivered by experts in the field equips you to understand the science behind these techniques.
Course combinations
Can’t attend the full course? No worries, combine days or modules to create training that works best for you. The more days you book the larger the discount.
- For 2 days, pay £1250
- For 3 days, pay £1825
- For 4 days, pay £2350
- For 5 days, pay £2850
Please note, discounts won’t apply when booking but will appear on your invoice.
