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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets Acquisition information (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Mar. 29, 2015
Mar. 30, 2014
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Jan. 09, 2015
Feb. 05, 2014
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Goodwill $ 166,923,000us-gaap_Goodwill $ 184,260,000us-gaap_Goodwill $ 170,773,000us-gaap_Goodwill $ 136,152,000us-gaap_Goodwill    
Eisenberg [Member]            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Business Combination, Consideration Transferred 5,400,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferred1
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Business Acquisition, Transaction Costs 200,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionCostOfAcquiredEntityTransactionCosts
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Net tangible assets assumed         100,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedNet
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Goodwill         4,100,000us-gaap_Goodwill
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Lithicon AS [Member]            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Percentage of voting interests acquired           100.00%us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionPercentageOfVotingInterestsAcquired
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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred   68,000,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferred1
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Business Acquisition, Transaction Costs     400,000us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionCostOfAcquiredEntityTransactionCosts
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Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustment, Consideration Transferred     400,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationProvisionalInformationInitialAccountingIncompleteAdjustmentConsiderationTransferred
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Net tangible assets assumed           7,700,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedNet
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Goodwill           46,900,000us-gaap_Goodwill
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Net intangible assets acquired, fair value           22,000,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibles
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Deferred Tax Assets, Goodwill and Intangible Assets           8,100,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsGoodwillAndIntangibleAssets
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Developed technology [Member] | Lithicon AS [Member]            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Net intangible assets acquired, weighted average amortization period 10 years          
Net intangible assets acquired, fair value           18,600,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibles
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Customer relationships [Member] | Eisenberg [Member]            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Net intangible assets acquired, weighted average amortization period 5 years          
Net intangible assets acquired, fair value         1,400,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibles
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Customer relationships [Member] | Lithicon AS [Member]            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Net intangible assets acquired, weighted average amortization period 5 years          
Net intangible assets acquired, fair value           2,200,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibles
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Order or Production Backlog [Member] | Lithicon AS [Member]            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Net intangible assets acquired, weighted average amortization period 2 years          
Net intangible assets acquired, fair value           $ 1,200,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibles
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