Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Disaggregation of Revenue [Table Text Block]

A summary by the Company’s reportable segments follows for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018:

Twelve months ended December 31, 2018	U.S. Operations		Swiss Operations		Western European Operations		Chinese Operations		Other Operations		Total
Product Revenue	$	769,971	$	106,400	$	517,855	$	475,025	$	430,824	$	2,300,075
Service Revenue:
Point in time	196,314		19,430		134,052		38,528		100,638		488,962
Over time	41,512		8,234		66,881		11,556		18,366		146,549
Total	$	1,007,797	$	134,064	$	718,788	$	525,109	$	549,828	$	2,935,586

The Company's global revenue mix by product category is laboratory (51% of sales), industrial (41% of sales), and retail (8% of sales). The Company's product revenue by reportable segment is proportionately similar to the Company's global mix except the Company's Swiss Operations, which is largely comprised of laboratory products while the Company's Chinese Operations has a slightly higher percentage of industrial products. A breakdown of the Company's sales by product category for the year ended December 31 follows:

	2018
Laboratory	$	1,504,600
Industrial	1,211,362
Retail	219,624
Total net sales	$	2,935,586

In certain circumstances, our reporting units sell directly into other geographies. A breakdown of net sales to external customers by geographic customer destination, net for the year ended December 31 follows:

	2018
Total Americas	$	1,105,956
Total Europe	908,773
Total Asia/Rest of World	920,857
Total	$	2,935,586

Contract with Customer, Asset and Liability [Table Text Block]

	Deferred Revenue and Customer Pre-payments
Beginning balances as of December 31, 2017	$	107,166
Customer pre-payments/deferred revenue	619,257
Revenue recognized	(618,002		)
Foreign currency translation	(3,040		)
Ending balance as of December 31, 2018	$	105,381