INVENTORIES

Inventories are summarized as follows (amounts in thousands):



	September 28, 2014		September 29, 2013
Raw materials	$	55,280	$	36,436
Work in progress	94,044		86,762
Finished goods	55,681		38,788
	$	205,005	$	161,986

We periodically evaluate the profitability of our various offerings. Should the actual or expected profitability fall below an acceptable threshold, we may decide to stop offering a product, in part to reallocate manufacturing, operations, engineering, sales and support resources to products we expect will generate greater returns. During 2014, our evaluation led us to selectively exit product offerings that we believe will continue to lag our overall profitability goals. This resulted in an inventory write-off of $7.9 million. We believe that for many of these products, market dynamics dictate that price is the primary differentiator rather than our value-added core competencies of power, reliability, security and performance.