UOM Conversion Best Practices

Hello All-
Could someone provide some best practices for converting between different units of measure in MDM?
We have an English repository with several numeric attributes defined in English units (inches, horsepower, etc). We want to add a second language which inherits these measurements, but converts them to Metric (cm, kW, etc).
From what I can see, neither the MDM clients (except Publisher) or the Java API support this dynamic conversion. So that leads me to believe that we have to programmatically convert the units as we access the data via the Java API.
Is there built-in functionality to handle this?
thanks
Tim
MDM 5.5 SP06 Patch 1

Hello Tim,
By using MDM UOM Manager you can maintain system dimension and user defined dimension.
System dimension:
You can modify system unit.
You can add new user defined unit to system dimension.
User defined dimension:
You can add new user defined dimention.
You can add new user defined unit.
After unload and load the MDM repository, MDS builds new indexes to the added / modified UOM and the MDM API treats those changes as it treats to the system MDM dimension and units.
You can utilise the "new" MDM java API to convert values from one dimension unit to another:
Package: com.sap.mdm.util
Class: MeasurementUtils
Method: public static double convertMeasurementValue(DimensionId dimensionId,
                                             UnitId unitIdFrom,
                                             UnitId unitIdTo,
                                             double value,
                                             DimensionsManager dimensionManager)
Good luck, Nimrod.

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serious issues with audio and video sync. A problem that is all too common
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Conversion exit missing in BI - Best practice to install missing exits

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Product hierarchy field PAPH1 cannot be adapted to the new structure
Message no. KE691
Diagnosis
The definition of the product hierarchy has changed (structure PRODHS). The hierarchy field generated in CO-PA, PAPH1 cannot be adapted to the new definition, because it is already being used in structures or tables.
System Response
The field PAPH1 does not appear in the list of fields that can be selected.
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Procedure
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PRODH2     2         RKEG_PAPH2      5
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