Significant Accounting Policies Nature of operations (Details) - Jun. 30, 2015	Total
Sales level from major customers	4.00%
Diversified Industrial
Number of countries that the Industrial International operations provide Parker products and services to	47

The number of countries in which the entity operates as of balance sheet date.

No definition available.

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