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Product Warranties | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Guarantees [Abstract] |
Product Warranties |
12) | Product Warranties
The Company provides for the estimated costs to fulfill customer warranty obligations upon the recognition of the related revenue. While the Company engages in extensive product quality programs and processes, including actively monitoring and evaluating the quality of its component suppliers, the Company’s warranty obligation is affected by shipment volume, product failure rates, utilization levels, material usage, and supplier warranties on parts delivered to the Company. Should actual product failure rates, utilization levels, material usage, or supplier warranties on parts differ from the Company’s estimates, revisions to the estimated warranty liability would be required. The product warranty liability is included in other current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets. Product warranty activities were as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Beginning of period |  | $ | 6,266 |  |  | $ | 6,956 |
Provision for product warranties |  |  | 1,109 |  |  |  | 704 |
Direct charges to warranty liability |  |  | (1,244 | ) |  |  | (656 | )
Foreign currency translation |  |  | (67 | ) |  |  | 9 |
End of period |  | $ | 6,064 |  |  | $ | 7,013 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for standard and extended product warranties and other product guarantee contracts, including a tabular reconciliation of the changes in the guarantor's aggregate product warranty liability for the reporting period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 460 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 8 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6398077&loc=d3e12565-110249 + Details
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