IIGDT Newsletter February 2026
 
 
New IIGDT Seminar : EVOLVE Suite Workshop / Training

IIGDT and Productivity Quality Inc. (PQI) have teamed up to produce a new seminar focused on the EVOLVE Suite of productivity tools. The EVOLVE software suite optimizes design, production and inspection processes enabling manufacturers to shorten product design & development time, improve quality, and reduce costs through improved efficiency.

EVOLVE Productivity ToolsThe seminar is designed to provide a foundational and advanced understanding of SmartProfile, Design, and SPC modules from an advanced applications perspective. To provide extensive knowledge in methods of analysis from a proof of compliance perspective as well as process and design feedback perspective. To fully understand how to visualize suspicious analytical data to know when to question results from a design, manufacturing, and metrology perspective. During this training we will highlight areas of opportunity to make technical and business improvements and identify areas of opportunity for optimization of physical design definition and functional tolerance allocation which will reflect maximization of manufacturing flexibility and minimization of measurement uncertainty.

Read the EVOLVE Suite Workshop and Training Outline.

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

 


Value of In-House Training

Value of In-House GD&T Training....Are all the pieces coming together?

The budget has been delivered from Mount Management up high! You look it over to see if your metrology needs are fulfilled. Hmmmm. Something is just not right. Remember that shiny new CMM on the shop floor? You noticed there was no budgeted training expense.

Manufacturing CellYou lean back and drift off in thought. With the in-line production cell about to start, the outside engineering company has done a remarkable job providing a fully working solution. The line delivers parts as expected, one every 30 seconds. What is there to be concerned about? The consultants have gone home, production parts are being delivered, the shiny new CMM is inspecting every part. The SPC charts are green. Life is good.

The first shipment is returned from the customer......

Read the full article at iigdt.com.

Visit consulting IIGDT Consulting Services for GD&T in-house training and budget review.


IIGDT Seminar Series : May-November 2025
Seminar Locations
Minneapolis, MN Intro to Mechanical Drawings & GD&T
May 4-8, 2026 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   
Minneapolis, MN EVOLVE Suite Workshop / Training
May 11-14, 2026  
   
   
Minneapolis, MN Intro to Mechanical Drawings & GD&T
August 3-7, 2026 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   
Minneapolis, MN Intro to Mechanical Drawings & GD&T
November 2-6, 2026 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   
   

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!


   
 
Dr. Greg Hetland

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

greg-hetland@iigdt.com

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