Successful vacuum solutions require more than selecting the right pump. Learn how Agilent's application expertise, broad technology portfolio, global infrastructure and collaborative approach help customers bring innovative ideas to life. Through real-world examples, they'll demonstrate how an integrated strategy reduces risk, accelerates time to market, and improves performance and reliability.
Overview
Vacuum systems are a critical enabling technology behind many advanced analytical instruments and industrial platforms, and decisions around system design and supplier selection can significantly influence performance, manufacturability, lifecycle cost, serviceability, upgrade paths, supply continuity and long-term product success While selecting components from a catalog may address an immediate design need, it can also leave development teams disconnected from supplier roadmaps, emerging technologies, near-production innovations and end-of-life planning.
The right vacuum supplier combines a broad technology portfolio, streamlined development processes, co-development expertise, customer management tools and long-term lifecycle support to help customers move efficiently from requirements discovery to system design, technology selection, monitoring and future planning. This integrated approach helps reduce complexity, simplify troubleshooting, improve uptime, support upgrades and ensure the complete vacuum system works together as the application evolves.
The session will close with two real-world examples of collaboration in action. The first will feature insights from a large OEM with the structure and resources to evaluate in-development technologies through a formal co-development process, showing how external enabling technologies can be managed as part of a disciplined product development roadmap. The second will highlight an advanced scientific user who approached Agilent with a “what’s possible” mindset rather than simply replacing an end-of-life component with what was available from a catalog — leading to novel product evaluations, custom firmware development and early assessment of pre-launch technology for future applications
Partnering with Agilent Vacuum Products creates a strategic advantage for instrument developers, system designers, product managers, service teams and advanced end users by turning early application requirements into smarter design choices, better technology alignment, reduced lifecycle risk and access to innovations that may not be visible through a catalog-parts approach.
Key Takeaways
- Start with the application — not the product.
- Design integrated systems for long-term performance.
- Plan for monitoring, service and future expansion from day one.
- Partner with Agilent to optimize performance throughout the equipment lifecycle.
Speakers
John Screech is a senior applications engineer at Agilent Technologies (Vacuum Products). John graduated in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in Physics and has worked in analytical instrumentation ever since. His career has spanned general Mass Spectrometry, Vacuum System development and Contraband Detection. John joined Agilent in 2011 and currently leads Training and Education Programs for the Vacuum Products division. John also assists Agilent’s sales force and end-users with pre- and post-sales applications support. He is based near Toronto, Canada.
Ken Halligan is a senior leader in New Product Development with more than 35 years of experience developing analytical instrumentation in the field of mass spectrometry. Throughout his career, he has led products from early research through commercialization, combining technical innovation with practical product development leadership. Ken's work is based on the principle that exploratory research and the engineering of commercial products require fundamentally different management approaches. Building on established principles from R&D, engineering, project management and customer-focused product development, he has integrated, adapted and extended these ideas into a practical methodology that includes original concepts and practical tools for managing the journey from research through commercialization. At its core is a way of thinking about innovation that reduces technical uncertainty, shortens the path to proof of concept and enables more effective commercialization. Ken helps organizations improve product development performance through practical, high-impact methods that reduce technology setbacks, accelerate commercialization and deliver products that better meet customer needs.