E20.02 Progress through 5/21

We held our E20.02 meeting in Vancouver this past Monday. I lead the meeting via Web-Ex from American Fork, Utah. It went rather well. Here is an update on our subcommittee's progress.

WK21204 - Standard Guide for the Selection and Use of Wide-band, Low Temperature Infrared Thermometers

The rough draft for this guide is complete. The following steps will take place between now and the next subcommittee meeting in November.

• The current text will be put into ‘standards form’ (June 09)
• Technical review (July 09)
• Editorial review (July 09)
• Send out for ballot (September 09)
  

The date of September 09 to send out for ballot is a stretch goal. It will only take place if a significant amount of editing does not need to take place after the reviews.

Calibration of Wide-band, Low Temperature Infrared Thermometers

This will be a work item that we will start on in November.

E 1256 – 95: Standard Test Method for Radiation Thermometers (Single Waveband Type)

This standard does not come up to be reapproved until 2012. However, we need to review it to see if we can make some changes. I will be discussing this with Ray Peacock in the future.

Collaboration Areas

ASTM has started collaboration areas for current work items. I have started one for WK21204. If you are interested in collaborating in the development of this standard, please contact me.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Monday Nov. 9th, 2009 or Tuesday Nov. 10th, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.