×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Designing in mm/inch?

Designing in mm/inch?

Designing in mm/inch?

(OP)
We are currently designing tools for a few US companies and are finding that some companies require their designs in metric (which suits us since we're based in Ireland) Is this a growing trend?

Kieran Fegan
www.moulddesigner.com

RE: Designing in mm/inch?

Most machineries in the US bought long time ago are imperial. Many companies are still using imperial system. It is now a trend to go metric in many industries such as automotive and consumer.

RE: Designing in mm/inch?

Yes. Most likely that metric mold will never run production in U.S., because of labor cost. It may run preproduction, if shipped to U.S., but my bet is the mold never comes to U.S. The average moldmaker here, still likes the English system.

Trucking  

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources