Rick,
Why ever would an auditor ask that you do this? This is way out of line.
Why don't you tell the auditor you will have an answer tomorrow at 1:00 p.m., or would he like it at 1300 military time instead? 

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] System International Units versus Imperial English units??

Ridiculous bureaucracy. :-( It is perfectly legal, even in the USA, to use the metric system as a unique method and has been since the 19th century, 1866 to be precise (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system_in_the_United_States ).

Of course, whether you comply with the request of the auditor or not is up to you but, IMHO, he has no grounds for enforcing the issue. If your house specs say n °C ±m °C, you are perfectly in your rights to keep it at that.

Brian

Rick Thompson wrote:
> 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.
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> Thanks for any comments or feedback.
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