Kilopascal asked in USMA 17911 how any worker in an auto plant could think that his product was not metric.
>2002-02-03 > >About a week ago, I reported some findings on the use of metric in Texas. >Also, I mentioned about my neighbour who works at Ford Motor company and >claims metric is not used there. > >Pat Naughtin responded about metric in the auto plants in Australia. But, >I want to know from anybody who has some contact with people, average >Americans who work for any of the automobile companies in the US. And >that would include companies like John Deere and Caterpillar who also are >said to be metric. > >I want to know how Joe Six-pack, average American who has no clue as to >what any of the metric units are is able to function is a supposed metric >environment. How does my neighbour function in a supposed metric >environment and yet claim they don't use metric where he is at? Is it the >situation I experienced in Texas, where metric is everywhere and people >manage to ignore it? > >I think one of the reasons there hasn't been much of a push to go metric >is because it might be seen as decreasing American efficiency and >increasing costs and aggravation. There may be cost savings in going >metric, but many American's will see it as wasteful, especially if they >have to waste time constantly converting every metric value back to FFU. >I doubt they will ever try to learn and understand metric. > >Any answers? > > >John > > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#edeffb> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>2002-02-03</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>About a week ago, I reported some findings on >the use >of metric in Texas. Also, I mentioned about my neighbour who works >at Ford >Motor company and claims metric is not used there.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>Pat Naughtin responded about metric in the auto >plants in >Australia. But, I want to know from anybody who has some contact with >people, average Americans who work for any of the automobile companies in the >US. And that would include companies like John Deere and Caterpillar who >also are said to be metric.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>I want to know how Joe Six-pack, average American >who has >no clue as to what any of the metric units are is able to function is a >supposed >metric environment. How does my neighbour function in a supposed metric >environment and yet claim they don't use metric where he is at? Is >it the >situation I experienced in Texas, where metric is everywhere and people manage >to ignore it?</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>I think one of the reasons there hasn't been much of a >push to go metric is because it might be seen as decreasing American >efficiency >and increasing costs and aggravation. There may be cost savings in going >metric, but many American's will see it as wasteful, especially if they >have to >waste time constantly converting every metric value back to FFU. I doubt >they will ever try to learn and understand metric. </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>Any answers?</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial>John</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Metric is used by the design office. Assembly line workers don't measure anything. They use the nuts and bolts that they are supplied. My memory is that a tool and die manufacturer in Sheffield, England, said that going metric had produced a 15% reduction in design time. The (U.S.) reported design time saving of as much as 5% Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
