The goal was to establish an integrated component-procurement management procedure that would satisfy the different requirements of the member organizational units. All components used in production units had to be selected from this list. Requests for exceptions had to undergo a formal review procedure whereby the justification for the request could be evaluated by all organizational units affected. The procedures eliminated virtually all cases of redundancy only one item was listed for each unique combination of form, fit, and function parameters. Admittedly, the clout necessary to implement this kind of mandatory procedure was provided by contractual requirements imposed by our customers, who were military agencies of the U.S. government.
Nondefense manufacturers have no such information source.
In that way, the CSM systems that emerge can be shaped to fit the needs of the users, rather than the marketing objectives of parts vendors. Evacuated pressure was about 10-6 millimeters of mercury. I share his views that ASME often appears all too eager to channel taxpayers' funds its way. I would like to think that, as a collective professional body, ASME could also communicate such revolutionary ideas and ideals more often. The leaner governments we are headed toward will be deprived of much of the tax largesse they now disburse so inefficiently.