Hi Rick,

It may just be simpler to add the units and avoid the conflict.  While, you
likely understand that a simple conversion can be done to obtain the
Fahrenheit value.  In my opinion, its not worth arguing over. Personally, I
would just add the degree F values in ( ) and be done with it. This way
everyone walks away happy.

Best regards,

Joe Russeau
Process Analyst

Precision Analytical Laboratory, Inc.
4106 Cartwright Dr. Ste. A
Kokomo, IN 46902

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From: "Rick Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:03 PM
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
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