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Laboratory equipment

Repair, servicing and calibration support for university and research labs

One team for the mechanical side, the power and control electronics, and the software or PC interface — on-site at your lab, or board-level at our Faisalabad workshop.

Catalogue

Equipment we work on

Not an exhaustive list. If an instrument is not here, ask — the underlying faults are usually the same.

Thermal & sterilisation

  • Bacteriological and CO2 incubators
  • Hot-air ovens and sterilisers
  • Autoclaves — vertical, horizontal and benchtop
  • Water baths, oil baths, shaking baths
  • Muffle furnaces and drying cabinets
  • Distillation and deionisation units

Sample preparation

  • Centrifuges — benchtop, refrigerated, micro
  • Orbital shakers, rotators, vortex mixers
  • Magnetic and overhead stirrers
  • Homogenisers and tissue grinders
  • Microtomes and tissue processors
  • Vacuum pumps and rotary evaporators

Analytical instruments

  • UV-Vis spectrophotometers and colorimeters
  • Analytical balances and moisture analysers
  • pH, EC, TDS and DO meters
  • Flame photometers and turbidity meters
  • Kjeldahl, fibre and fat analysers
  • Titrators and conductivity bridges

Optical & molecular

  • Compound, stereo and digital microscopes
  • PCR and thermal cyclers
  • Electrophoresis units and power packs
  • Gel documentation systems
  • Laminar flow hoods and biosafety cabinets
  • Colony counters and incubated shakers

Control & power electronics

  • Temperature controllers and PID panels
  • Control boards, SMPS and power supplies
  • RTD / PT100, thermocouple and digital sensors
  • Display panels, keypads, membrane switches
  • Motors, drives, relays and contactors
  • Wiring looms, heaters and thermal cut-outs

Instrument PCs & software

  • Instrument software that will not launch or license
  • Drivers and data-acquisition cards
  • RS-232 / USB links that stopped communicating
  • Windows upgrades that broke an old instrument PC
  • Data export, report templates and record keeping
  • Replacement PCs configured for the instrument
In detail

The work itself, instrument by instrument

What actually gets done when one of these arrives at the bench or we arrive at yours.

Analytical & measurement instruments

Spectrophotometers — UV/Vis, FTIR, fluorescenceCuvette holder clips and carriages, stepper-motor and grating-drive errors, lamp, laser and source assemblies, source alignment, detector and preamplifier repair, full service.
Chromatography systems — HPLC, GCInjector syringes, valves and columns, pump seals, detector electronics, oven heater and control boards, and restoring communication with the data station.
Spectrometers — NMR, FTIR, MS front-end electronicsPower-supply rails traced and repaired, RF and signal amplifiers rebuilt, control and interface electronics, cooling and interlock circuits serviced.
Scintillation countersDetection electronics, photomultiplier bias supplies, discriminator and counter boards.
pH meters & electrochemistry equipmentMeters, probes and electrode inputs serviced; buffer-point calibration and drift correction.

Life sciences & general lab equipment

Centrifuges & microfugesPower supplies and circuit boards, drive and speed-sensing faults, lid interlocks, imbalance detection, and no-start diagnosis.
Thermal cyclers — PCR machinesControl electronics, Peltier thermal blocks, block-uniformity checks, heated lid and display faults.
Incubators, ovens & water bathsFans and heating elements, temperature controllers and displays, sensor replacement, door hinges, latches and gaskets, followed by a stability run.
AutoclavesControl system and printer repair, pressure and temperature sensing, solenoids and steam traps, safety interlocks, general electronics maintenance.
MicroscopesIllumination, condenser and stage electronics, camera and digital-head interfaces, mechanical alignment and optical cleaning.

Mechanical & vacuum systems

Vacuum pumps — rotary, dry, turbomolecularScheduled maintenance and full rebuilds, disassembly of seized rotors, self-cleaning cycle faults, drive electronics and controller repair.
Glove boxesFaulty PLCs and internal relays traced and replaced, oxygen and moisture sensor circuits, purge and antechamber control.
Rotary evaporatorsHeating-bath controls, mains and power faults, drive motor and lift mechanism, vacuum controller service.
Stirrers & hotplatesControl shaft and potentiometers, motor and drive board, heating element and thermal cut-out replacement.

Electronics & data systems

Power suppliesFailed or missing voltage rails traced to component level. Linear and switch-mode units are repaired rather than thrown away.
Data acquisition (DAQ) equipmentAC/DC signal amplifiers, filters and head stages repaired; noise and grounding faults resolved.
Lab computers & peripheralsInstrument PCs and printers — including autoclave printers — repaired, replaced and configured until the instrument talks to them again.
Controllers & amplifiersTemperature, voltage and current controllers serviced, re-tuned and, where the original is obsolete, rebuilt.

Specialised & high-value repairs

RF generators & amplifiersHigh-power RF systems diagnosed and repaired, including output stages and protection circuits.
Lasers & light sourcesXenon lamp drivers, ignition and power supplies, laser heads and their cooling systems.
Electronic circuit boards (PCB)Opens and shorts traced, undocumented boards reverse-engineered back to a schematic, BGA rework and component-level repair.
Custom & unavailable equipmentInstruments and modifications designed and built when nothing suitable is sold — including drop-in replacements for discontinued boards.

Preventive maintenance & general service

CalibrationRoutine calibration across instrument types, with the readings written down and left with the department.
Safety modificationsOver-temperature cut-outs, earthing and RCD protection, interlocks and guarding upgrades.
Electromechanical repairTeaching and research lab hardware of every kind, from demonstration rigs to production instruments.
Annual maintenance contractsScheduled visits through the year, so instruments do not fail mid-semester or mid-project.
Where the work happens

Two ways to run a repair

Option A

On-site at your lab

Our engineer comes to the department with test equipment and spares. Diagnosis and most repairs happen there, so the instrument never leaves your custody, and there is no gate pass, no transport and no risk of damage in transit.

Option B

Board-level at our workshop

When a fault sits in the controller board, the power supply or a component, the unit comes to Faisalabad. It is repaired, run under load and returned tested, with the fault and the parts replaced recorded in writing.

Worth knowing

Before you write anything off

Departments usually underestimate what is repairable. A large share of the equipment sitting in store rooms as “dead stock” has a failed heater, a dry electrolytic capacitor, a burnt triac or a sensor that has drifted — parts costing a fraction of a replacement instrument. That is exactly what the free survey is for.

Method

How a job runs

01

Free survey

An engineer visits your department, opens every non-working instrument on the list and tells you plainly which are revivable and which are not. You get a written inventory. There is no charge and no obligation.

02

Diagnosis before cost

The fault, the parts required, the price and the turnaround are put in writing before any work starts. If a repair is not economical, we say so.

03

Repair — on-site or workshop

Most faults are fixed in your lab, so the equipment never leaves the department. Board-level and component-level work goes to our Faisalabad workshop and comes back tested.

04

Test and handover

The instrument is run under load and its readings checked against its own specification — temperature stability, speed, wavelength accuracy, balance linearity — before we hand it back.

05

Annual maintenance (optional)

Scheduled preventive servicing through the year, so instruments do not fail in the middle of a semester or a funded project.

Send us your list of non-working instruments. The survey is free.