Transcription of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
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ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code AN INTERNATIONAL CODE. A. B. ASME's Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) | 2013. A Century of Safety When ASME's founders including Henry drawn from a balance of interests among been considered essential within such R. Worthington, Alexander Lyman Holley industry, government and R&D who industries as electric power-generation, and John Edson Sweet, along with other operate in a fully open and transparent petrochemical, and transportation, prominent industrialists and technical manner via consensus process. among others. innovators of the nineteenth century . gathered in New York City for the first The resulting living document remains a worldwide model for assuring the safety, Nuclear time in 1880, the main topic of discussion centered on the need for standardized reliability and operational efficiency first ASME has played a vital role in supporting tools and machine parts as well as uniform envisioned by ASME's founders more than the nuclear industry since its inception, work practices in the dawning industrial a century ago.
tools and machine parts as well as uniform work practices in the dawning industrial age. Engineering standards, the founders agreed, would ensure safety, reliability and operational efficiency in machine design and mechanical production. ASME issued its first standard, Code for the Conduct of Trials of Steam Boilers, in 1884.
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