Dear AMMRL Colleagues,
I would like to gather information based on your experience about when it is
appropriate to hire an NMR engineer on-site as a full-time employee based on
the following topics (consider the difference in costs and savings when
having an NMR engineer on-site as a full-employee versus not having him/her,
specially if you can give me responses in $'s or any other currency that may
apply to you):
* How many instruments on-site are considered the minimum to justify
the saving costs for hiring an NMR engineer on-site
* Cost effective related to savings on service parts versus service
contracts with NMR vendors considering the cost of NMR instruments nowadays
(specially if they have cryoprobes or coldprobes installed)
* Cost effective (or savings) related to instrument down time by
having service parts/contracts versus having an NMR engineer on site that
can take care of the problems decreasing or diminishing the down time of NMR
instruments
* How much down time is decreased by having the NMR engineer or not
having him/her on-site
* Cost effective (or savings) of having full support for cryogenics
with the NMR engineer on-site versus not NMR engineer
* Cost effective (or savings) when moving an NMR from one building to
another
* Cost effective (or savings) of maintenance of probes
* Cost effective (or savings) of having regular preventive maintenance
for the best spectrometer performance done regularly few times a year by the
NMR engineer on-site versus not having this option (or paying once a year a
PM to the NMR vendor)
* Cost effective of software and hardware upgrades
* Cost effective management of database for user accounts, specially
for open access or any open access situation such as troubleshooting and
minimize instrument down time for open access
* Cost effective (or savings) for negotiation of acquisition of new
instruments and service contracts from NMR vendors
* Cost effective (or savings) for room designed for new NMRs
* Cost effective (or savings) for giving more time to the NMR
spectroscopists to develop and apply NMR methodology to solve structural
problems versus having the NMR spectroscopists to manage everything with the
absent of an NMR engineer on-site
* Academic Institutions and Industries that have an NMR engineer
on-site, how many NMRs they have (open and non-open access) and what the
success is with the NMR engineer on-site (instrument down time, service
contracts/parts, savings, etc)
* Academic Institutions and Industries that would like to have an NMR
engineer on site, how many instruments they have (open and non-open access)
and how they handle the situation without the NMR engineer on-site
(instrument down time, service contracts/parts, savings, etc)
* Academic Institutions and Industries that don't think it is
necessary to have an NMR engineer on-site, how many NMR instruments they
have (open and non-open access) and how they handle the situation without
the NMR engineer on-site (instrument down time, service contracts/parts,
savings, etc)
* Any other issue(s) that I haven't thought about and it is important
to consider for this study
Your response it'll be greatly appreciate it. I'll post the responses I
get. I hope this is an issue of interest and hopefully I get a lot of
responses. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Maria
Maria Victoria Silva Elipe, Ph.D.
AMGEN, Inc.
Department of Analytical Chemistry at CR&D
One Amgen Center Drive (Mail Stop 30E-1-C)
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Tel. 805 447 9807
E-mail: melipe_at_amgen.com
Received on Wed Jun 29 2005 - 21:00:36 MST