This article discusses how knowledge of ASME codes helped an engineer in his career. Aby Thomas was a young engineer in India in the 1990s when he got an invitation from a Saudi Arabian company for the job of a project engineer. Aby was able to get this job, thanks to his knowledge of manufacturing pressure vessels and boilers and of ASME code requirements. In that job, Aby helped the company in setting up to meet all the requirements for obtaining the ASME, USA, and PP Stamps in the first external audit. As a result, Aby was promoted a level, from project engineer (mechanical) to superintendent (fabrication) immediately and in the next year one more level as general superintendent. Later, Aby's experience with ASME and National Board codes helped him secure another job in Bahrain. He joined the Bahrain Petroleum Co. in 2002 at the Bahrain Refinery as a field supervisor and today he is employed as a senior engineer for cost and planning in the plant engineering department.
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The International Language of Codes
A Career Arc from India to the Middle East was Driven by the Global Power of Standards.
Aby Thomas is senior engineer for cost and planning in the plant engineering department of the Bahrain Petroleum Co.
Mechanical Engineering. Jan 2011, 133(01): 38-39 (2 pages)
Published Online: January 1, 2011
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Thomas, A. (January 1, 2011). "The International Language of Codes." ASME. Mechanical Engineering. January 2011; 133(01): 38–39. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2011-JAN-4
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