Most American Companies worth a damn are metric capable. The have systems that convert back and forth at will.
Americans plagued with unions are the ones at risk of being noncompetative because the unions won’t change.
I personally use only the metric system in my daily work. It is better, it is easier.
In my line of work, an acre is 43,560 square feet, or 160 square rods, or 4 rods by 40 rods, or one chain by 10 chains, or maybe a rod by a half mile. What could be easier than that?
In my line of work, an acre is 43,560 square feet, or 160 square rods, or 4 rods by 40 rods, or one chain by 10 chains, or maybe a rod by a half mile. What could be easier than that?
Americans plagued with unions are the ones at risk of being noncompetative because the unions won’t change.
I worked for a hydraulic components manufacturer as a design engineer and I traveled a lot with our sales people to supply technical backup when proposing systems to new customers. I remember a meeting with some John Deere engineers, when we looked at their "metric" drawings the steel thickness for the frame members for a new machine was speced as 6.4mm which is 0.25" on the dot. No mill rolls plate to a "Metric" 6.4mm, lots of US mills roll 1/4" plate.
The company I worked for was bought out by Robert Bosch and we went through hell trying to convert to metric. I was the CAD/CAM system manager and tried to explain that converting the existing product line would require a complete redesign as a "soft" conversion was not going to work for us or our customers. A true "modular" metric conversion was not possible and should be reserved for new products only.
Regards,
GtG
PS There's metric and then there's METRIC