Gas chromatographs with built-in diagnostics and guided troubleshooting
The new 8890B and 8860B GC systems combine hardware with condition monitoring and guided troubleshooting, aimed at cutting unplanned downtime.
- Gas chromatography underpins fuel testing, environmental analysis and food profiling — instrument downtime halts the whole flow of orders.
- The manufacturer links the new version to condition monitoring and guided diagnostics, that is, to shortening the time between a fault and its identification.
- What matters most for a laboratory is whether the system prompts can be reconciled with record-keeping requirements: every intervention in the instrument has to be documented.
- Automatic diagnostics replaces neither periodic checks nor quality control — it is a tool for organising work, not evidence that a result is correct.
Source: SelectScience — Agilent unveils integrated MS and chromatography at ASMS 2026