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Business Segment Information (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Oct. 01, 2016

Business Segment Information [Abstract]

Revenue from External Customers by Products and Services

Net sales for the Company's products and services are as follows for the three and nine months ended October 1, 2016 and October 3, 2015 (in thousands):

				Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
				October 1, 2016			October 3, 2015			October 1, 2016			October 3, 2015
Product net sales:
	Waters instrument systems			$	226,296		$	219,196		$	646,733		$	625,276
	Chemistry				84,114			78,173			255,312			234,095
	TA instrument systems				39,524			39,564			115,433			112,471
		Total product sales			349,934			336,933			1,017,478			971,842
Service net sales:
	Waters service				160,503			148,206			471,792			438,104
	TA service				16,393			15,439			49,366			45,776
		Total service sales			176,896			163,645			521,158			483,880
Total net sales				$	526,830		$	500,578		$	1,538,636		$	1,455,722

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Tabular disclosure of entity-wide revenues from external customers for each product or service or each group of similar products or services if the information is not provided as part of the reportable operating segment information.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 40
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e9031-108599

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