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Application and Training

Instrument operation, method development and application training.

Application and Training Services

Empower Software: Advanced Topics

3 days

This intensive 3-day training course shows you how to use many of the advanced features of the Empower software. The focus is on the creation, organization, processing, and reporting of chromatographic data. Additionally, it covers adding custom sample descriptions and creating custom calculations for chromatographic data. This instructor-led, hands-on computer course is designed for experienced Empower software users.

Topics

  1. 1Configuring Settings
  2. 2Generating and Processing Data
  3. 3Creating Custom Fields and Report Formats

Using the Pro Interface

  • Daily tasks
  • Introduction to window properties
  • A user’s perspective on system policies and privileges
  • Understanding the effects of system policies
  • Default strings
  • User accounts, user types, user groups, and group administration
  • Acquisition servers and chromatography systems
  • Cloning projects and searching across multiple projects
  • Organizing and accessing information in Empower
  • Creating view filters
  • Using “just-in-time” view filters
  • Comparing method versions
  • Locking/unlocking channels
  • Creating a Sample Set method template
  • Developing a manual process method on the Review screen
  • Comparison of traditional and ApexTrack peak detection and integration theories
  • Global peak detection parameters

Laboratory Use of the Pro Interface in Empower Software

2 days

This 2-day course demonstrates how to efficiently collect, integrate, calibrate, calculate, and report chromatography data using Empower Software via the Pro Interface. Participants use the software throughout the course and develop their skills through hands-on practice with the instructor.

Topics

  1. 1Using the Pro Interface
  2. 2Data Generation
  3. 3Processing
  4. 4Using Existing Report
  • Empower overview and login
  • Creating a project
  • Creating Instrument, Method Set, and Sample Set objects to start an analysis
  • Developing process methods for integration, calibration, and calculation
  • Modifying sample information after the analysis is complete
  • Batch/background processing of multiple chromatographic data sets
  • Filtering and visualizing data in the Project window
  • Creating custom report formats
  • Adding statistical calculations for users
  • Aligning chromatograms
  • Displaying results and calibration curves
  • Combining tables with chromatograms: creating compound report groups
  • Practice (optional)

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for new Empower Software users who want to quickly learn how to use the Pro interface.

Prerequisites

None.

Course Materials

Each participant will receive a course handbook for reference and a Certificate of Participation. Only Empower software and the Pro interface are used in this course.

Using the ACQUITY QDa Detector with Empower Software

2 days

This 2-day course introduces you to the ACQUITY QDa detector hardware and its operating principles using Empower software. Participants will learn topics specific to the ACQUITY QDa detector in Empower software, such as instrument method settings and working with MS data in the review window. Laboratory exercises will be conducted to apply and reinforce the Empower MS data processing systems necessary for successful use of the QDa detector and Empower software.

Topics

  1. 1ACQUITY QDa Detector Principle
  2. 2Preparing the Hardware for Operation
  • ACQUITY QDa Detector Console
  • ACQUITY QDa Detector Instrument Method Settings

Overview of the Empower 3D Review Window

  • Toolbar functions
  • Table properties
  • Chromatogram extraction
  • Spectrum extraction
  • Spectrum area properties
  • 3D view
  • Developing a processing method for 3D data

Mass Analysis Window

  • Channel extraction
  • MS spectrum extraction
  • Mass Analysis window toolbars
  • Mass Analysis window view settings

Operation and Maintenance

  • Source component replacement and cleaning
  • Capillary replacement

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for Empower software users who want to quickly learn how to use the ACQUITY QDa Detector.

Prerequisites

Participants must be familiar with the Pro Interface in Empower software. They must know how to work with 2-dimensional chromatography data in Empower software and have a solid understanding of basic LC/MS principles.

Course Materials

Each participant will receive a course handbook for reference and a Certificate of Participation.

Useful Training Videos

53 videos

#1 waters_connect System Monitoring Mar23

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#02 Sample Management & Data Archiving

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#03 Method Validation Manager MVM

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#04 Business Continuity LAC/E

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#05 Archive vs Backup

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#06 Validated Excel

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#07 USP (1220) & ICH Q14/Q2(R2) - Part I

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#08 USP (1220) & ICH Q14/Q2(R2) – Part II

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#09 Compliance & Data Integrity

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#10 Customizable Searches

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#11 Manage Instruments, Columns & Reagents

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#12 Custom Fields

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#13 Sample Weights

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#14 Alliance iS and Empower

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#15 Audit Trail Review

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#16 Peak Integration and Impurity

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#17 INFORM 2024 – Empower & NuGenesis Insights

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#18 System Suitability

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#19 w_c System Monitoring

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#20 Manage SoD and PoLP

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#21 Data Intelligence

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#23 Windows 11

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#24 Empower Data Viewer

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#25 Fair data

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#26 Computer System Validation (CSV)

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#27 Message Center & Reviews

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#28 SEC-MALS & Empower

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#29 Waters Node Manager

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#30 Empower Reports Simple & Smart

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#31 Empower Advanced Custom Fields - Reports

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#32 Empower Data Exchange

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Empower Tips: Ask Me Anything Webinar: Managing Computerized System Risks to Data Integrity

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Empower Tips Webinar | Ask Me Anything About Peak Purity in Empower Software

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Empower Tips Webinar | Ask Me Anything About Peak Detection and Integration in Empower Software

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Empower Tips Webinar | Ask Me Anything About Using Sample Set Methods and Templates in Empower

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Empower Tips Webinar | Ask Me Anything About Custom Fields in Empower Software

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Empower Tips Webinar | Ask me Anything About Impurity Calculations in Empower Software

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Empower Tips Webinar | Ask Me Anything About Empower Software

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Using a defined Auto•Blend Plus method

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Modifying a solvent within an Auto•Blend Plus method

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Creating a new solvent within an Auto•Blend Plus method

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Calibrating the pH of a buffer system within an Auto•Blend Plus method

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Creating a new buffer system within an Auto•Blend Plus method

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Webinar | Data Integrity Oversight Through Analytics

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Webinar | Data Integrity Concerns: Challenging Chromatographic Analyses

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Creating a Method Set for SEC-MALS Analysis in Empower Software

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Episode 1 USP 621 Harmonization

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USP 621 Revisions - S/N Calculation, Sensitivity and Peak Symmetry

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Enhanced Method Development

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Introduction | APC Method Development Series | Part 1 of 4

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Method Development Factors | APC Method Development Series | Part 2 of 4

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Sample Loading | APC Method Development Series | Part 3 of 4

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Flow Rate | APC Method Development Series | Part 4 of 4

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