On-site/Virtual: Pipette Repair & Calibration Training Plan
Mar 09, 2025ยทBy EZPRT
On-site/Virtual: Pipette repair and calibration training includes instructional material presented via PowerPoint and hands-on practice. Trainers will demonstrate key repair and calibration techniques, followed by student application of these methods through guided practice.
Day#1:
- Powerpoint Training: parts diagrams, preventative maintenance, and pipette cleaning & evaluation.
- Hands-on demonstration & activity:
- Cover general cleaning and evaluating pipettes.
- Go through standard preventative maintenance for Rainin, Gilson, Eppendorf, Thermo, and VWR pipettes.
- Powerpoint Training: discuss repair tools and their specific uses.
- Hands-on demonstration & activity
- Demonstrate how to use specific repair tools for Thermo, VWR, Eppendorf, Rainin and Gilson.
- Q & A
- Knowledge check - quiz related to the material provided above.
Day#2:
- Powerpoint Training: common model-specific repair and troubleshooting repair issues powerpoint training. This will cover mainly Gilson, Rainin and Eppendorf.
- Hands-on demonstration & activity
- Demonstrate how to complete the model-specific repairs.
- Cover how to determine if your repairs are effective or if you need to send a pipette back to a customer as unserviceable(unable to repair).
- Powerpoint Training: basics of pipette calibration(physics of pipetting, setting up your pipette calibration station and ergonomics of pipetting)
- Hands-On demonstration & activity
- Cover how to set up your calibration station for pipette calibration.
- Demonstrate the steps involved to calibrate a pipette
- Q & A
- Knowledge check - quiz related to the material provided above.
Day#3:
- Powerpoint Training: calibration tools, common issues when calibrating pipettes and tips & tricks for specific pipette models.
- Hands-on demonstration & activity
- Walk through the different calibration tools and how to use them.
- Cover the common issues experienced when calibrating pipettes.
- Discuss and implement tips and tricks we use to calibrate difficult pipette models.
- Q & A
- Knowledge check - quiz related to the material provided above.