Segment Information (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 2012

Sales and Gross Margin for Reportable Segments

The following represents sales and gross margin of the Company’s reportable segments (in thousands):


	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 28, 2012		September 30, 2011		September 28, 2012		September 30, 2011
Sales
Laser Products	$	28,336	$	29,763	$	80,350	$	86,609
Precision Motion and Technologies		41,184		48,941		124,735		152,207

Total	$	69,520	$	78,704	$	205,085	$	238,816


	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 28, 2012			September 30, 2011			September 28, 2012			September 30, 2011
Gross Profit
Laser Products	$	9,489		$	11,719		$	27,365		$	34,204
Precision Motion and Technologies		19,660			23,374			60,549			72,599
Corporate ⁽¹⁾		(296	)		(508	)		(713	)		(1,476	)

Total	$	28,853		$	34,585		$	87,201		$	105,327

⁽¹⁾	Corporate costs primarily represent unallocated overhead related to discontinued operations.

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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