Standards
Consistent and professional standards lay an important foundation for safety, efficiency, and good collaboration. Pneumofore has a strong tradition of standards: those we follow and those we set. We encourage our customers and partners to share our standards whenever possible, we strive to learn about yours.
QUALITY CONTROL
Pneumofore works according to ISO standards. We are certified with ISO 9001 since 1999 and ISO 14001 since 2002.
COMMUNICATION STANDARDS
Our preference is digital information exchange by email or FTP (File Transfer Protocol), faxes when signed approval is required. Pneumofore resources can access their email at any www spot with our webmail service. International calls and video conferences are managed with Skype. We minimize air mail and shipping whenever possible and appropriate.
We encourage the use of Portable Document Format (PDF) for cross-platform compatibility. Otherwise, please select from the following when exchanging documents with us:
General: pdf, for text .doc, .docx, for tables .xls, .xlsx, for presentations .ppt, .pptx
Compressed images: for graphics .gif and for photos .jpg
Images for production: .eps or .tif
Technical: .dwg, .dxf, .dwf
Please use the .zip compression format for file sizes above 3Mb. In case of larger files, Pneumofore can transfer them by the YouSendIt service.
TECHNICAL STANDARDS
Pneumofore adheres to the International System of Units (SI) set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) pertaining to the definition and usage of units and measures.
In the global community, there is still much discrepancy concerning the proper use of scientific units. Pneumofore respects the standards set by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), which has established the International Systems of Units (SI) with the following base units:
| Quantity | Name | Symbol |
| Length | metre | m |
| Mass | kilogram | kg |
| Time | second | s |
| Electric Current | ampere | A |
| Thermodynamic Temperature | kelvin | K |
| Amount of Substance | mole | mol |
| Luminous Density | candela | cd |
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Derived SI units are coherent units, i.e. derived as products, quotients, or exponential products of base SI units from formulae in which the numerical coefficient is unity. |
1 Newton [force] = 1 N = 1 (m · kg)/s²
1 Joule [Work] = 1 J = 1 N· m
1 Pascal [Pressure] = 1 Pa = 1 N/m²
1 Watt [Power] = 1 W = 1J/s
A number of units commonly employed for general applications (i.e. in the industry) are not included in the SI system of base and derived units. **For practical purposes** they usually correspond to a simplification of SI units.
Examples:
1 bar [Pressure] = 1 bar = 100000 Pa
1 horsepower [Power] = 1 hp = 736 W
Various countries use a range of non-SI units. Special care is required to measure and describe the vacuum level, whether absolute or relative to the atmosphere, metric or imperial. Our preference is the scientific approach with metric, absolute values using mbar(a), as defined by ISO. On this site, you can easily convert units with the dedicated Unit Converter found in the right column of various technical pages. For further information on this topic:
International Organization for Standardization
European Organization for Pumps and Compressors
