Mass spectrometer GCMS-TQ8040 NX

MSMS/MSfood

Overview
The Shimadzu triple-quad GCMS-TQ8040 NX features smart technologies to boost the efficiency of routine analytical work. Smart MRM provides fully-automated MRM method development, automatically determining optimum transitions and collision energies and incorporating them into the Smart Database Series. The GCMS-TQ8040 NX GC-MS/MS is designed for high efficiency sample throughput, quick and easy method development, low detection limits and Scan/MRM, making it suitable for applications such as environmental monitoring and food science.

Key features

• Smart MRM: fully automated MRM method development to maximize sensitivity
• Smart Database Series: database-driven automated method creation
• Smart Productivity / Smart Operation / Smart Performance: design goals to improve throughput, ease of method development and detection limits
• Simplified user maintenance to allow quick part changes and reduced downtime
• Scan/MRM capability for flexible acquisition

Applications (selected documents)
Documents | Creation Date
What’s in Your Brew? Detecting Volatile PFAS with Headspace SPME GC/MS/MS | 2026-01-14
Simultaneous analysis of residual contaminants in drinking water using Programmed Temperature Vaporization (PTV) for Large Volume Injection (LVI) and GC-MS/MS | 2025-08-28
Volatile PFAS in Complex Juice Matrices: A Simple Approach Using HS-SPME GC/MS/MS for Volatile Contaminant Analysis | 2025-08-26

Technical documents (selected)
Documents | Creation Date
Guide to Biopharmaceutical Solutions | 2021-09-01
Analysis of Aroclor and Organochlorine Pesticides in Ground Water using Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS | 2019-05-13
Determination of Fatty Acid Esters of 2- and 3-monochloro-1,2-propanediol (MCPD) and Glycidol in Edible Oil Using GC-Triple Quadrupole | 2018-09-06

Manuals (selected)
Documents | Creation Date
Instruction Manual | 2023-09-01
Operation Guide | 2018-07-17

Videos (selected)

• UFsweeper+ASSP GCMS-TQ8040
• Easy sTop GCMS-TQ8040
• Size Short GCMS-TQ8040
• Ecology mode GCMS-TQ8040
• Smart MRM GCMS-TQ8040
• Smart Database GCMS-TQ8040
• MRM Optimization Tool GCMS-TQ8040
• MS NAVIGATOR GCMS-TQ8040
• Methodfile GCMS-TQ8040

Caractéristiques / spécifications techniques

• Product type: Triple quadrupole Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS/MS)
• Model: GCMS-TQ8040 NX
• Automated Smart MRM method development (automatic transition and collision energy optimization)
• Smart Database Series integration for automated method creation
• Design goals: Smart Productivity (high throughput), Smart Operation (easy method development), Smart Performance (low detection limits)
• Scan/MRM acquisition capability
• Intended application fields: environmental monitoring, food science and related contaminant/residue analyses
• Available documentation includes product brochure specific to GCMS-TQ8040 NX, instruction manual and operation guide