Bill, At my company we build field serviceable products and as a result the customer comes in contact with many of the internal workings. Mechanical drawings are used on occasion. Also our some of our remote service offices are in the EU and they like the idea of metric hardware, just for the ease of replacing fasteners that are lost.
I have no idea how they will deal with things like the 19" equipment rack standards. Could they impose a 48.26 cm standard rack? There is one other problem. Currently we have a conflict with US standards requiring a dual marking for things like weight on shipping cartons or papers. I think there is a D.O.T. requirement like this. I still do not know how to deal with this. Doug Powell Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. Ft. Collins, Colorado USA www.advanced-energy.com ---------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; POWELL; DOUG Subject: Re[2]: Metrics #2 List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 8:19AM I hope your not telling me that the "EU" can reach into the our company and force us to change our design processes in areas that they will never see or affect the use of the product. Why should we release engineering drawing which are intended for our suppliers of say a front panel with only metric values? The vender may be in US and works in the inches and feet. Why would the "EU" care. I can understand this directive applying to the user's manual or maintenance manual. Bill Schwartz General Signal Networks (609) 439-3051 [email protected] ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: RE: Metrics #2 Author: [email protected] (POWELL; DOUG) at Internet2 List-Post: [email protected] Date: 11/4/97 10:08 AM Jim, My understanding of this directive is that anything associated with the product, be it labels, specs, manuals, sales brochures, packages, etc., must use the SI system exclusively. This means anything published or in print, no exceptions. I hope this does not also restrict verbal communication. At my company we currently have a dual system of SI and the "old" English system in operating specs in the user manuals. We intend to continue at least through 1998 this way and hope to have a plan in place to have everthing SI'ed by the end of 1998. Doug Powell Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. Ft. Collins, Colorado USA www.advanced-energy.com ---------- From: [email protected] To: "emc-pstc" Subject: RE: Metrics #2 List-Post: [email protected] Date: Monday, November 03, 1997 8:37PM Does anyone have the details of the impact of this Directive? How many of the following "packaging" type items are within its scope: - product labels - boxes - owner's manuals - service manuals - brochures - advertising Also does anyone know if there is any middle ground? Perhaps the clutter of interspersing metric and imperial (for lack of a better term) units is the problem, in which case physical segregation would be a possible solution. Thanks for your help. Regards, Jim Eichner Statpower Technologies Corp. Burnaby, B.C., Canada [email protected] Any opinions expressed are those of my invisible friend, who really exists. Honest.
