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GD&T Standards by country

GD&T Standards by country

GD&T Standards by country

(OP)
I need to compile a list of which GD&T standards are used in different countries, specifically whether a country uses predominantly ISO or ASME standards.

If you know, It would be greatly appreciated if you posted the country and which standard it uses so I can compile a list.

Thanks!

RE: GD&T Standards by country

Countries don't use standards, companies (hopefully) do. I work for a US company using ISO standards.

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RE: GD&T Standards by country

I agree with dgallup.
I have used both at different companies here in the US.
You will probably find more companies in the US using ASME over ISO, but don't know the percentage.

There is a little info on Linkedin

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RE: GD&T Standards by country

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RE: GD&T Standards by country

Sorry timid but like dgallup says it really varies by company.

Now in general, I believe ASME is more significantly more popular in the US than ISO. I believe ASME is fairly popular in Canada too.

Most other places I suspect lean strongly toward ISO - or their national/regional flavors of ISO such as BS, DIN, EN, JIS...

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RE: GD&T Standards by country

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Countries don't use standards, companies (hopefully) do.

Countries do not use standards, countries WRITE standards.

Every developed (and not so developed) industrial country has organization that writes standards. In some countries they are voluntary associations (like American ASME), in some countries - government agencies (like Chinese CNIS).

ALL those organizations are members of ISO (and that includes ASME).
How far the national standards are harmonized with ISO standard framework, that’s completely another story.

Also, another aspect of the problem is local adoption of the foreign standards for the need of outsourcing.
Let say there is a factory in Russia that makes Ford cars. There is another factory in the making that will build Subaru.
You don’t think both of them will use Russian drafting standards?

But at least there is some REAL incentive here to harmonize standards between countries / companies / etc. in order to be more productive.

RE: GD&T Standards by country

I expect that every Ford factory will use what ever standards Ford uses regardless of the plant location. The same goes for Subaru or any other multinational company. Anything else would be chaos.

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RE: GD&T Standards by country

I wouldn't be so sure dgallup.

Companies that have built up through mergers of independent companies may well use different standards at least in different countries.

Even large corporations where individual units have historically had some independence may vary.

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RE: GD&T Standards by country

Dgallup,

That’s exactly what I said.
But in order to communicate with local sub-contractor, or Ford to steal Russian engineer from Subaru, everybody benefits from standards being “not so much different” from each other.
That’s what I meant by “incentive”: everyone benefits from harmonizing the standards.

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