GD&T Standards by country

[timidlikerivers]

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!

 

[dgallup]

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

----------------------------------------

The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.

 

[ctopher]

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

Chris
SolidWorks 11
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

 

[powerhound]

ASME here!

Powerhound, GDTP S-0731
Engineering Technician
Inventor 2013
Mastercam X6
Smartcam 11.1
SSG, U.S. Army
Taji, Iraq OIF II

 

[KENAT]

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...

Posting guidelines faq731-376

http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

(probably not aimed specifically at you)
What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484​

 

[CheckerHater]

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.

 

[dgallup]

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.

----------------------------------------

The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.

 

[KENAT]

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.

Posting guidelines faq731-376

http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

(probably not aimed specifically at you)
What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484​

 

[CheckerHater]

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.