Chromatography Forum

I talked to a recruiter for Perkin Elmer today.

Any general impressions of them?

They seem to be into a lot of businesses. Is their chromatography equipment and software any good?

We use a Perkin Elmer ICP-OES unit and we're very happy with it.
We also have PE Labworks as our LIMS system , it's OK despite some initial troubles after install.

Perkin Elmer are of good quality..

we've been using them and nothing made us feel sad..

I like their TotalChrom software for its ease in processing.

Mr. Albrecht,

In my neck of the woods, Agilent and Varian have far more of the market share than PE for chromatographic instruments. (That also may be a function of sales force, I don't know.) For metals, I have seen more PE than either Varian or Agilent.

In general, I find it easier to work on Agilent and Varian GC's than on PE's.

For what it is worth.

Best regards,

AICMM

I've never seen or used an Perkin-Elmer GC or HPLC (a bit ironic in that they bought a company i worked at for 14 years... I'm sure they are using PE equipment now! )

Personally for HPLC I would stick to Waters or Agilent, and Agilent for GC... But that is based on my experience... That's all I used for the last 30 years, except for one Shimadzu HPLC which gave us a lot of trouble.

- karen

Perkin Elmer is now also into the MVS (Multiple Vendor Servicing) model, under the name Perkin Elmer On-Source.
They provide service engineers capable of supporting maintenance on a full range of instruments covering all manufacturers of HPLC and MS including Waters, GE, Shimadzu, Agilent etc.
Mostly they have hired engineers who have previously worked at these companies, and also reverse engineer these instruments so they can learn the expertise of working on them.

Servicing these types of instruments seems to be a big money bringer, and seems to be the way of all of these vendors these days, with big service contracts to the big Pharma companies.