Prior to Alliance Systems, fundamental HPLC system design had remained basically unchanged for years. In fact, most chromatographers were of a mind that the limits of this technology had been reached. Waters challenged that attitude, and with Alliance Systems, proved that increased sensitivity and reproducibility could make a real difference for our customers in both a scientific and a business sense. Alliance Systems are manufactured at our ISO-9001 certified instrument manufacturing facility in Milford, Massachusetts. This cGMP facility is registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce Class 1 medical devices.
Every instrument is tested at the factory and is accompanied by a certificate of performance.
After the instrument itself, the second critical component of an HPLC system is the analytical column. The Waters Symmetry line of columns sets a new standard for columns to be used in the next generation of HPLC assays. All manufacturing operations from incoming inspection and testing to final product release are defined by written SOPs and specifications and are certified to cGMP and ISO-9002. Key to the Waters strategy of helping our customers obtain relevant information is our Millennium software, which can be deployed on single workstations or as part of laboratory chromatography information management systems. Millennium software is based on the integration of a powerful relational database with advanced chromatography software, and was designed to keep pace with changing computer industry trends in the areas of networked data management and communication.