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Graham Naisbitt <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:05:50 +0000
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Now if you really want to put this guy on the spot, tell him that, according
to all International Standards, temperatures must be measured in Degrees
Kelvin and could you borrow his thermometer.

Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger......

Graham Naisbitt


On 11/1/06 16:31, "Douglas O. Pauls" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> What you might also do is to put down the number in every possible unit you
> can think of, C, F, K, hell make up a few units.  Take it to an absurd
> level to make your point.
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> Doug Pauls
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>              01/11/2006 09:39          Re: [TN] System International Units
>              AM                        versus Imperial English units??
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>              Please respond to
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> Oh boy, that is funny.
> So why am I crying?
>
> Ahne.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rick Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] System International Units versus Imperial English units??
>
> We have a customer who is questioning how we audit soldering iron
> temperatures per J-STD-001D.  All of our monitoring is done in Celsius
> which
> is the main unit of measure in the standard. Imperial English (Fahrenheit)
> is only used as a reference shown in parentheses.  The auditor is insisting
> that we need to measure in both units, i.e. we have a temperature with a
> +/-
> 15C tolerance and we would also need to measure it in degrees F at +/- 27F.
>
> My question is has anyone come up against this type of issue and how did
> you
> handle it?  We've cited the section of the standard where it explicitly
> indicates that the IE units are equivalent and shown for reference only but
> this response was deemed as 'inadequate'.  I'd typically put this in the
> category of Friday afternoon humor except we have a corrective action to
> respond to due to this.
>
> Thanks for any comments or feedback.
>
>
> Rick Thompson
> Sr. SMT Process Engineer
> CTS Electronics Manufacturing Solutions
>
> +1 (805) 532-2800   x-193
> [log in to unmask]
> www.ctscorp.com
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