An open letter to all PHCP manufacturers and wholesalers from Jack Hester, president of F.W. Webb.
We need the help of every manufacturer in the plumbing, HVAC and industrial-piping industries in what I feel is an important issue: an industry-wide database called Source ASA+. The electrical industry has spent millions of dollars of manufacturers' money setting up a similar database. We can do it for a fraction of the cost.
In 1998 the American Supply Association funded the Center for Advancing Technology and hired Kevin Price as its director. Since then the center has established industry-wide EDI standards called "EDI Express" and it has also convinced the ASA board that, with the technology advances of today, an industry-wide database is necessary.