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2002-04-27
This article appeared in this morning's Business section
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The article made me think and wonder
if when these foreign engineers are contracted to design products for American
companies, do they do it in SI or in FFU? I know for a fact that Van Dorn
is a company dedicated to the use of FFU.
So, would foreign Engineers give in and use FFU to
satisfy an American client and then maybe use their FFU experience on other
projects not related to America? Would they be a force to change American
habits of using FFU to that of using SI? In this particular article, these
engineers are from the Indian company of Infosys Technologies, Ltd.
Would these Indian Engineers attempt to convince their
American Client that using metric is more cost effective in the long term?
Would they do their designs in metric and if required convert them to FFU if the
client demands it? Or would they work completely in FFU?
If Engineering is going to be outsourced, this is the
perfect opportunity for bringing metric into US made products on a more subtle
approach. Kind of like sneaking it in the back door. And thus
creating a greater demand for such things as metric sized steel, metric
fasteners, etc.
Maybe, Madan has some insight on this. Any
comments?
John
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