IIGDT Newsletter October 2014
 
 
IIGDT: Helping you to Succeed...Through Training
GDT Consulting

Questions to Ask Your Engineering Team?

  • Do we have engineering drawings which do not optimally represent functional design intent?
  • Do we continue to have multiple revisions to engineering drawings which impact all departments and delay time to market and time to invoice?
  • Do we have daily inefficiencies with employees not trained adequately to "optimally" do their job tasks?
  • Do we have ongoing confusion and costly reactions by design, manufacturing and quality due to invalid or questionable measurement results?
  • Do we have challenges in meeting statistical capability expectations (Cpk)?
  • Are we rejecting parts that work or accepting parts that do not work?

Asking the right questions ensures that everyone in the engineering team understands the full implication to the process chain of their actions. Understanding the proper interpretation or intent of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) is not equally shared. This starts at management and moves down through design, engineering, manufacturing to inspection. We all assume we know GD&T, but the doors of knowledge are closed through non-participation and assumptions.

Education in engineering and manufacturing no longer addresses GD&T period: Engineers and inspectors often take a quick one-day course and they are expected to be masters of the GD&T universe: Very disheartening.

When your engineering team has a full understanding of GD&T your products can be manufactured, assembled and inspected as intended. There will be no ambiguity only true clarity.

Dr. Hetland provides informative seminars and in-house training programs not only to bring the Quality Control inspection process to a full understanding of GD&T, but also to the engineers where the design intent must be clear and unambigious.

Contact Dr. Hetland to discuss bringing these training programs into your house.


What our Customers are saying...

The success of IIGDT is built on Dr. Hetland's 35+ years of proven experience. Dr. Hetland has developed a unified approach to bridge the gap between Design, Manufacturing and Metrology. The bottom-line goal is to build upon the concept of proper Design Intent to improve your cost of business through greater efficiency in engineering, manufacturing, and improved quality.

And our customers agree.

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IIGDT Seminar Series: November - December 2014
Minnesota Seminar Locations
Minneapolis, MN Intro to Mechanical Drawings & GD&T
November 3-7 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   
Santa Clara, CA Executive Overview
November 10-14 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   
Minneapolis, MN Introduction to Dimensional Metrology
December 1-4 Applied Dimensional Metrology
   
Minneapolis, MN Tolerance Optimization & Analysis
December 8-9  
   
Minneapolis, MN Measurement Uncertainty
December 10-11  
   

If you would like to host a Seminar Series within your community or your company, please contact Dr. Greg Hetland for more information.

For our full schedule, visit our GD&T Seminar Schedule Page!


GD&T Training Models

In-House Training Tools

Bringing GD&T training programs into your company provides a valuable tool in the understanding of GD&T across all departments. IIGDT offers three GD&T Models Sets to assist in the on-going training that demonstrate the application of GD&T, visit the iigdt.com products page to learn more about the valuable training tools.

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Dr. Greg Hetland

Phone: (612) 670-9311
Fax: (612) 395-5405

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