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Inventories (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 04, 2015
Notes To Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventory, Current | Inventories at April 4, 2015 and January 3, 2015 are as follows:
| Apr 4, 2015 |  | Jan 3, 2015
| (in thousands)
Raw materials and parts | $ | 136,199 |  |  | $ | 126,121 |
Work-in-process | 21,738 |  |  | 17,828 |
Finished goods | 118,446 |  |  | 111,827 |
| $ | 276,383 |  |  | $ | 255,776 |

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