2.2.0.7 false Business Segment Information 0213 - Disclosure - Business Segment Information true false false false 1 USD false false USD Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 0 USDEPS Divide http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 Shares Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 $ 2 Business Segment Information [Abstract] 0 dnex_BusinessSegmentInformationAbstract dnex false na duration Business Segment Information. false false false false false true false false false false false false 1 false false false false 0 0 false false false xbrli:stringItemType string Business Segment Information. false 3 Business Segment Information 1 us-gaap_SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock us-gaap true na duration No definition available. false false false false false false false false false false false verboselabel false 1 false false false false 0 0   <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><font style="font-variant: small-caps"><b>Note 13: Business Segment Information</b></font> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The accounting standard for segment reporting establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments in annual financial statements and requires selected information for those segments to be presented in interim financial reports of public business enterprises. It also establishes standards for related disclosures about products and services, geographic areas and major customers. Our business activities, for which discrete financial information is available, are regularly reviewed and evaluated by the chief operating decision maker (our Chief Executive Officer). As a result of this evaluation, Dionex determined that it has two operating segments: Chemical Analysis Business Unit (“CABU”) and Life Sciences Business Unit (“LSBU”). </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">CABU sells ion chromatography and sample preparation products, chromatography data systems software, services and related consumables. LSBU sells High Performance Liquid Chromatography (“HPLC”) products, chromatography data systems software, services and related consumables. These two operating segments are aggregated into one reportable segment for financial statement purposes. Both operating segments have similar economic characteristics; product processes; products and services; types and classes of customers; methods of distribution and regulatory environments. Because of these similarities, the two segments have been aggregated into one reporting segment for financial statement purposes. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Net sales for our products and services were as follows for the three months ended September 30: </div> <div align="center"> <table style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">  <tr valign="bottom"> <td width="76%"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="1%"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="1%"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="1%"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="1%"> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom"> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="left" style="border-bottom: 0px solid #000000">(in thousands)</td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><b>2010</b></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><b>2009</b></td> <td> </td> </tr>   <tr valign="bottom" style="background: #cceeff"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Products </div></td> <td> </td> <td align="left">$</td> <td align="right">86,452</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="left">$</td> <td align="right">79,282</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Installation and Training Services </div></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">2,580</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">2,480</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom" style="background: #cceeff"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Maintenance </div></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">13,842</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">8,902</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 1px"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">  </div></td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">  </div></td> <td> </td> <td align="left">$</td> <td align="right">102,874</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="left">$</td> <td align="right">90,664</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 1px"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">  </div></td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" align="right" style="border-top: 3px double #000000"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" align="right" style="border-top: 3px double #000000"> </td> <td> </td> </tr>  </table> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">No individual customer accounted for more than 10% of net sales during the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009. </div> </div>  <!-- Begin Block Tagged Note false false false us-types:textBlockItemType textblock This element may be used to capture the complete disclosure of reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10% or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 131 false 1 2 false UnKnown UnKnown UnKnown false true