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Inventories

6 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2012

Inventories

Inventories consist of the following:



	April 30, 2012		October 31, 2011
Raw materials	$	14,687	$	14,433
Work-in-process	7,225		5,612
Finished goods	9,262		8,575
Total material	31,174		28,620
Tooling	10,771		5,356
Total inventory	$	41,945	$	33,976

Total cost of inventory is net of reserves to reduce certain inventory from cost to net realizable value. Such reserves aggregated $1,035 and $566 at April 30, 2012 and October 31, 2011, respectively.

The increase in tooling inventories of $5,415 is for customer reimbursed production tooling related to new program awards that go into production over the next several quarters.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for inventory. This may include, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the major classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory. If inventory is stated above cost, accrued net losses on firm purchase commitments for inventory and losses resulting from valuing inventory at the lower-of-cost-or-market may also be included. For LIFO inventory, may disclose the amount and basis for determining the excess of replacement or current cost over stated LIFO value and the effects of a LIFO quantities liquidation that impacts net income.

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