World of Acronyms

In today’s fast pace of life even our communications needs to trimmed up, tuned up, more efficient, I guess.

Industry especially looking to speed things up, reducing head counts, trying to make the corporate wheel house the size of the 1920 ocean liner.

In our industry of process equipment we face a daunting task of trying to keep up with ever changing and growing world of Acronyms.

Let me give you a short list of some acronyms we deal with,

• ASME – American Society Mechanical Engineers
• ISPE – International Society Pharmaceutical Engineers
• API – American Petroleum Institute
• ANSI – American National Standards Institute
• NACE – National Association Corrosion Engineers
• ASTM – American Society Testing Materials
• ASA – American Standards Associations

And the list goes on and on, like;

EXP, DIN, DIV 1, OSHA, IEC, NPT, DRG, DIM, GSKT, FAB, MATL, NOM, STD, SOP, SPEC to name a few.

The point of all of this, we need to know what the acronym represent and we can’t and don’t assume we know.

Happy Acronym Hunting.