Waters Announces AI Tool for Chromatography Review Tasks

Waters Corporation announced an AI feature for pharmaceutical labs that automates selected chromatography review tasks, with early customer access planned for December 2026.

Called AI-Powered Peak Integration, the feature will be a premium subscription capability in Empower Software. Chromatograms are graphs that show compounds separated from a mixture. The tool uses artificial intelligence and machine learning trained on each lab’s data to remove noise peaks, combine high-molecular-weight peaks and edit baselines.

In an internal 2025 pilot with a global pharmaceutical partner, manual interventions across 400 chromatograms fell from 90 to four. That was a 95% reduction. The partner was not named.

Reviews were 50% faster and variation between users was 72% lower in a 2026 customer evaluation. The company is enrolling customers for early access beginning in December 2026. Validated, compliant deployment is planned for mid-2027.

Tina Wu, senior vice president of Waters Analytical Sciences, said: “Waters is using AI to help customers bring drugs to market faster and to increase the quality testing of manufactured molecules.”