Line of credit facility, covenant, amount minimum tangible net worth.

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Line of credit facility, covenant, amount minimum working capital.

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Line of credit facility, covenant, amount of allowable Investment.

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Line of credit facility, covenant, maximum allowable dividends.

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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(22))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03(16))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879938&loc=d3e572229-122910

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.9-03(16))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6876686&loc=d3e534808-122878

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Date the credit facility terminates, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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Description of the interest rate for the amounts borrowed under the credit facility, including the terms and the method for determining the interest rate (for example, fixed or variable, LIBOR plus a percentage, increasing rate, timing of interest rate resets, remarketing provisions).

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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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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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Amount of borrowing capacity currently available under the credit facility (current borrowing capacity less the amount of borrowings outstanding).

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CREDIT AGREEMENTS AND BORROWINGS (Narrative) (Details) € in Millions, ¥ in Millions, £ in Millions, $ in Millions			1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 06, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 07, 2012 USD ($)	Feb. 16, 2017 USD ($)	Oct. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Oct. 31, 2017 EUR (€)	Oct. 31, 2017 GBP (£)	Feb. 16, 2017 CNY (¥)	Feb. 15, 2017 CNY (¥)	Dec. 05, 2016 USD ($)	Oct. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Borrowings available under credit facility				$ 19.6
Letter of Credit [Member]
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Line of credit, maximum borrowing capacity	$ 5.0
Revolving Credit Facility [Member]
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Line of credit, maximum borrowing capacity	15.0								$ 12.5
Maximum dividends allowable	5.0								4.0
Minimum working capital requirement	105.0								90.0
Minimum tangible net worth requirement	$ 125.0								$ 120.0
Line of Credit, interest rate description				Borrowings under our U.S. credit agreement bear interest either at a LIBOR-based rate or a floating rate, in each case with an interest rate floor of 0.00%. The floating rate equals the greatest of (a)a one month LIBOR-based rate plus 1.00% per annum, (b)the federal funds effective rate plus 0.50% per annum, (c) the prevailing prime rate and (d) 0.00%. The rate we must pay for that portion of the U.S. credit agreement which is not utilized is 0.05% per annum.
Line of credit, maturity date	Dec. 31, 2018
Allowable investments in subsidiaries		$ 5.0
Revolving Credit Facility [Member] \| United Kingdom [Member]
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Line of credit, maximum borrowing capacity \| £						£ 1.0
Revolving Credit Facility [Member] \| Germany [Member]
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Line of credit, maximum borrowing capacity \| €					€ 1.5
Revolving Credit Facility [Member] \| China [Member]
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Line of credit, maximum borrowing capacity			$ 3.0				¥ 20.0	¥ 40.0
Line of credit, maturity date			Feb. 15, 2018
Line of credit amount outstanding				$ 1.5						$ 1.5
Interest rate				4.40%	4.40%	4.40%				4.60%