The Economics of Metric

摘要

Why pay extra for inches when world economics is moving the U.S. into the metric age. Will this motivate the U.S. to convert in the next two years? Is it time for U.S. moldmakers to take a second look at mold bases and components based on metric measurements because they may be able to save money and maintain quality? The global economy has made the metric system its standard. This drives mold component suppliers around the world to primarily use metric sizes. As the number of metric users goes up, the number of users of the imperial system (inches) goes down. When the size of the metric market increases, prices for metric products reduce, thus prices for imperial-based products go up. This change will cause U.S. moldmakers working in inches to pay more for their mold components. And so, the campaign to move metric forward within mold manufacturing continues.