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Pre-Production Costs Related to Long-Term Supply Agreements (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	9 Months Ended
	Oct. 01, 2016	Sep. 26, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015
Pre Production Costs Related to Long Term Supply Arrangements [Line Items]
Pre-production E&D costs for which reimbursement is contractually guaranteed by the customer	$ 110.5	$ 115.9
Pre-production tooling costs related to customer-owned tools for which reimbursement is contractually guaranteed by the customer	61.5	74.8
Cash collected related to E&D and tooling costs	168.9	$ 155.6
Recoverable customer E&D and tooling	221.4		$ 215.7
Current
Pre Production Costs Related to Long Term Supply Arrangements [Line Items]
Recoverable customer E&D and tooling	172.2		162.0
Long-term
Pre Production Costs Related to Long Term Supply Arrangements [Line Items]
Recoverable customer E&D and tooling	$ 49.2		$ 53.7

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Amount of recoverable preproduction engineering and design costs related to long term supply agreements capitalized during the reporting period.

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Amount of recoverable preproduction tooling costs related to long term supply agreements capitalized during the reporting period.

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Cash recoveries of preproduction engineering, design and tooling costs incurred on behalf of a customer.

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The carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of capitalized preproduction costs incurred on long-term supply arrangements, including recoverable costs to design and develop products.

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