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Power Protection of Mission Critical Medical and Laboratory Equipment (developed for University of California, Irvine)
Course: University of California, Irvine Engineering Course UCI-E ECE 885.26
Developer / Instructor: Raymond L. Hecker, A.E., M.B.A., Vice President and General Manager, Franek Technologies, Inc.
Synopsis:
Utilizing practical examples and case studies, the course illustrates, in an easy-to-follow format using non-engineering language, the importance of putting safeguards in place to protect critical data from corruption or complete loss. The course is recommended for laboratory managers, principal investigators, and quality assurance personnel running sensitive instrumentation in laboratories.
Laboratory managers commonly face instrumentation performance anomalies and unexplained lost or corrupted data. The course is also for laboratory managers who are working with engineering firms to design new laboratory space and seek to prevent problems from the onset.
In the laboratory, power interruptions of less than 30 milliseconds, stoppages, and itinerant fluctuations have been identified as costing over $5 billion per year in repair or replacement of damaged equipment, lost productive time, irretrievably lost data, data recovery, and repetition of anomalous tests or experiments. Course addresses implementing proactive power control and mitigation as part of a laboratory's risk management program.
The course material meets the guidelines of the U.S. Government's BioShield program to reduce the impact of bioterrorist attacks by minimizing power loss or power anomaly impacts on critical electrical/electronic devices, forensic, production and research instrumentation. Power quality issues are a significant factor in disaster preparedness and good laboratory practices (GLP).
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