2012 Final Program - Pittcon

PITTCON 2012 EXHIBITOR SEMINAR LISTING
EXHIBITOR NAME ROOM # DESCRIPTION
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Empower 2/3 Live Tutorial: Using Custom Fields to Streamline Your Empower Workflow
The use of custom fields can improve laboratory efficiency as you perform calculations automatically through Empower. This live tutorial session will help
you access the flexibility built into Empower and give you the confidence to customize your use of Empower to meet your lab application needs.
You will learn how to:
• Customize data entry by adding your own sample identifiers such as batch number
• Create custom calculations with peaks, such as summing peak areas in a chromatogram within limits that you define ( a Boolean calculation)
• Perform an inter-sample calculation, such as averaging component amounts from multiple injections on different lines of a sample set
3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Understanding the Proposed Changes to USP General Chapter Chromatography
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter Chromatography describes the range of allowed adjustments in an HPLC system when the
suitability test fails. In 2009 a Stimuli article was posted in the Pharmacopeia Forum that proposed a new approach with the aim of adding more flexibility
to selecting and adjusting HPLC column dimensions while preserving the quality of the separation. In this seminar, one of the authors of this Stimuli article
describes the scientific rationale behind these proposed changes along with the benefits that they could provide to method development, quality control
and generic drug analysis laboratories.
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Principles of SPE: Introduction to Solid-Phase Extraction - Why and How to Best Solve Sample Preparation Problems
More and more, analytical scientists are utilizing SPE technology to help solve many of the problems encountered with sample preparation. As newer, more
rapid analytical techniques speed up the work flow in the lab, upfront sample preparation often becomes a bottleneck to productivity. This seminar will
provide you with a strong background on the fundamentals of this chromatographic technology as well as a guide to the powerful SPE processing
strategies that can be used to tackle difficult problems. An SPE demonstration is included.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Compliance - Meeting the Challenge of Increased FDA Focus on CDS Systems
Ensuring the integrity of data supporting the quality or safety of regulated products can be a time-consuming laboratory challenge. In this session you will
learn about:
• Recent FDA guidance concerning laboratory data & its impact
• The criticality of adopting electronic data review practices
• Strategies to supporting the defensibility of laboratory data
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Principles of SPE: Troubleshooting Techniques to Maximize Productivity in your Lab
This seminar is designed for those with some experience with SPE and SPE methods development. The discussion will specially benefit those who need to
improve existing methods, or create new methods that are more robust in order to maximize laboratory productivity. Several important topic areas and
tools will be presented: how to improve performance; how to minimize variations in sample % recovery results, the impact of proper sorbent wetting to
reduce variability, and the identification of the root cause of poor recoveries through the use of mass balance and cartridge break-though capacity studies.
You will leave with an important set of tools that will help you be more successful in your SPE efforts.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Empower 2/3 Live Tutorial: Managing and Auditing Data Electronically with Empower
In laboratories with UPLC, data is being generated faster than ever before. In this live tutorial session you will investigate data integrity by viewing
changes and viewing audit trail information. It is important to view the entire electronic record of the data generated by the analyst rather than solely
referring to multiple pages of printed documents.
You will learn:
• How to follow the path of how processed data is generated from raw data
• If and when the data was altered
• What was specifically changed and why
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Improving UPLC® Performance for the Routine Analysis of Drug Final Formulations
An application area where the sample throughput, analyte response and chromatographic resolution benefits of UPLC technology have translated into
significant business productivity gains is the routine analysis of drug final formulations. In this very practical seminar we will describe how UPLC
technology can best be utilized in laboratories that follow chromatographic test methods found in compendial monographs. We will provide examples of
drug final formulations assays taken from the USP-NF that were successfully transferred to UPLC along with routine analysis studies where the long-term
robustness of the UPLC methods was evaluated.
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Theory and Practice of Ultra Performance LC® Technology
What is Ultra Performance LC? Is it based on real science or is it marketing hype? Learn about the chromatographic theory and principles behind UPLC
technology and discover how the predicted speed, sensitivity and resolution benefits are actually achieved. We will discuss band spreading and its effects
on efficiency, van Deemter curves and peak capacity charts and how the length and particle size of an LC column can be used to predict efficiency and
throughput gains by seeing how these variables (and others) affect resolution as described in the fundamental resolution equation.
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