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Other / In a tender for a grinding machine | | French term or phrase: normes ASM | 1 année ou 2200 heures pour travail d'équipe selon feuille annexée
"Conditions générales de vente et de livraison" (normes ASM)
No problem with the sentence as a whole but I don't know what "ASM" stands for. The bid is from a Swiss milling/grinding equipment manufacturer. I have left it as "ASM standards" as some of these abbreviations are international, but I'd like to know for sure.
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Until 2007, there was a body called Association Patronale Suisse de l'Industrie des Machines, abbreviated to ASM. This would seem to fit your context. |
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| Grading comment Thanks, everyone. Based on all of your helpful suggestions I decided to go with "ASM standards".
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Explanation:
Until 2007, there was a body called Association Patronale Suisse de l'Industrie des Machines, abbreviated to ASM. This would seem to fit your context.
Reference: http://www.swissmem.ch/fr/lassociation/portrait/historique.h...
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| | Grading comment | Thanks, everyone. Based on all of your helpful suggestions I decided to go with "ASM standards". |
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4 hrs confidence: ASM American Society for Metals International
Explanation:
From the list below I selected American Society for Metals International as it was the only one what would fit your context
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ASM
See also
*** ASM American Society for Materials (now the Materials Information Society)
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ASM.html
*** MIS Materials Information Service
http://www.acronymfinder.com/MIS.html
The IOM3 Materials Information Service (MIS) was established to help companies to select the appropriate materials and processes for their products.
Correct materials and process selection is fundamental to a product's success – get it right and profitability and product performance are maximised, but get it wrong and poor performance and product failure soon lead to a damaged reputation in the marketplace.
http://www.iom3.org/content/technical-enquiries
Reminded me the ASTM
****** ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM International; West Conshohocken, PA)
**** ASTM American Standard Test Method
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ASTM.html
Last, but not least, IOM3
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is a major UK engineering institution whose activities encompass the whole materials cycle, from exploration and extraction, through characterisation, processing, forming, finishing and application, to product recycling and land reuse. It exists to promote and develop all aspects of materials science and engineering, geology, mining and associated technologies, mineral and petroleum engineering and extraction metallurgy, as a leading authority in the worldwide materials and mining community.
IOM3 was formed from the merger of the Institute of Materials and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in June 2002. Its roots go back to the Iron and Steel Institute which was established in 1869. It received Royal Charters in 1899 and 1975. It merged with the Institute of Packaging (2006) and the Institute of Clay Technology (2006). In the Summer of 2009 the Institute reached an agreement with the Institute of Wood Science to transfer all its members and activities to IOM3.
http://www.iom3.org/content/about-iom3
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| Reference: ASM (defunct German-language acronym)
Reference information:
www.swissmem.ch/en/the-association/membership.html - Cached
The employeer's association of the Swiss engineering industry (ASM) is the
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmem - Cached
Swissmem was created by the merger of two associations: ASM (Association of Swiss Engineering Employers) und VSM (Swiss Association of Machinery ...
If you read German, here's the expansion of ASM (which is in any case defunct):
Swissmem ging aus den beiden Verbänden ASM (ARBEITGEBERVERBAND DER SCHWEIZER MASCHINENINDUSTRIE) und VSM (Verband Schweizer Maschinenindustrieller) hervor
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmem
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