Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I work in metric as an American, my industry is probably the only one that works in metric world wide. Temp is mixed
Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I work in metric as an American, my industry is probably the only one that works in metric world wide. Temp is mixed
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 days ago
What industry is that?
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Aerospace
holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
My last project in aerospace with 100’s of people was mostly Imperial. There is a lot of mixing of units and you can basically design your subsystem however you want. There was a mandate decades ago to go metric, but that has largely been ignored. It’s the worst of both worlds!
My current project is just a couple people, so I mandated all metric. I have to spend a lot of money on tooling, but it is largely fine. I would say 10 years ago getting some fancy aerospace grade fasteners was easier in Imperial, less so today.
My mind still defaults to Imperial for very small dimensions like a 8 thou gap or something.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t that happen because of the Mars Climate Observer crashing? Caused by a us team using pounds-force-seconds where nasa expected newton-seconds (sending it hurtling towards mars at a too-low dip into the atmosphere)
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
30+ years satellites, we are all metric. But as @FuglyDuck said it was a mixed team that mixes SAE\Imperial and metric that caused the failure.
We do everything in house so when parts\waveguide\antenna’s\etc all gets ordered its all metric.