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Revenues - Remaining Performance Obligations & Revenue Expected to be recognized (Details)	Sep. 29, 2018
Revenue, Remaining Performance Obligation, Expected Timing of Satisfaction, Start Date [Axis]: 2018-09-29
Remaining Performance Obligation, Expected Timing of Satisfaction
Percentage of remaining performance obligation expected to be recognized in period	62.00%
Revenue, Remaining Performance Obligation, Expected Timing of Satisfaction, Start Date [Axis]: 2021-01-03
Remaining Performance Obligation, Expected Timing of Satisfaction
Percentage of remaining performance obligation expected to be recognized in period	22.00%

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The percentage of the remaining performance obligation that is expected to be recognized in the period.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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