Convert Feet per Second to Meters per Second

The Foot per Second (symbol: ft/s) is a unit of cutting speed. A US-customary cutting-speed unit equal to exactly 60 ft/min = 18.288 m/min (= 0.3048 m/s). ft/s appears occasionally in specialty US machining applications where m/s would be the equivalent metric unit: high-speed abrasive waterjet cutting (Flow Waterjet, OMAX, Jet Edge industrial waterjet machines specify pump-pressure and traverse rates with mixed units), high-speed CBN/diamond superabrasive grinding wheels (ANSI B7.1 maximum operating speed dual-listed in ft/s and m/s for safety guarding compliance — typical 16,500 ft/s = 5,000 m/min surface speed for vitrified-bond CBN), some legacy US military specifications for ammunition-case rotary machining and barrel-rifling operations per MIL-STD, and a handful of academic-research papers from US universities studying chip morphology at very high cutting speeds (where the units feel natural for dimensional-analysis purposes alongside ft/s flow velocities). Most US machining practice defaults to ft/min (SFM) rather than ft/s. Convert ft/s to m/min by multiplying by 18.288; to SFM by multiplying by 60; to m/s by multiplying by 0.3048.

It belongs to the imperial measurement system.

Feet per Second are commonly used in CNC machining, manufacturing processes, and tool selection.

The Meter per Second (symbol: m/s) is a unit of cutting speed. A cutting-speed unit equal to exactly 60 m/min, used in specialty high-speed-machining contexts and academic research on metal-cutting tribology and chip-formation mechanics. m/s appears in: abrasive grinding-wheel surface-speed specifications per ANSI B7.1 (typical bench grinder 30-35 m/s; CBN/diamond superabrasive grinding 50-80 m/s; high-speed creep-feed grinding 60-120 m/s; some specialized applications up to 200 m/s), laser cutting and laser engraving feed rates (industrial fiber-laser cutters TRUMPF TruLaser, Bystronic Bystar, Amada ENSIS achieve 0.5-50 m/s linear cutting speed depending on material thickness), waterjet cutting traverse rates (Flow Mach 700, OMAX MAXIEM 0.05-1.0 m/s typical), and academic-research papers in CIRP Annals, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering studying chip formation, cutting temperature, and tool wear at very high speeds where dimensional analysis benefits from SI-coherent units. Most production machining defaults to m/min rather than m/s because the numerical values are more intuitive for shop-floor operators. Convert m/s to m/min by multiplying by 60; to ft/min by multiplying by 196.85.

It belongs to the metric measurement system.

Meters per Second are commonly used in CNC machining, manufacturing processes, and tool selection.