Registration Available for ETIs Fall 2005 Geometric Tolerancing Public Workshops

ETI's fall line-up of GD&T public workshops includes training events in Michigan, Florida, California, and Texas.

(PRWEB) August 17, 2005 -- Effective Trainings fall line-up of GD&T public workshops includes training events in Michigan, Florida, California, and Texas. The hands-on workshops are open to the public and feature courses on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing fundamentals, tolerance stacks, and solid model tolerancing. All of the courses were developed by GD&T expert Alex Krulikowski, and they approach the subjects from a design perspective.

The September schedule features a three-day tolerance stacks workshop in Westland, Michigan. October GD&T fundamentals and solid model tolerancing courses are planned for Orlando, Florida. The 2005 workshop series comes to a close with November and December workshops that include fundamentals and Y14.41 solid model tolerancing courses in San Francisco, Houston, and Orlando. Tolerance stacks workshops are planned for San Francisco and Houston.

ETI developed the public workshop series to allow better access to GD&T training," said Alex Krulikowski, president of ETI. The correct application of GD&T is the core to good design, and can help save organizations thousands of dollars. By offering these workshops around the country, we are making them available to individuals and companies that need GD&T training, but have little access to it."

GD&T is an international language of symbols used on engineering drawings to communicate design intent. It is used by thousands of manufacturers worldwide. The two-day GD&T Fundamentals Workshop (based on the ASME Y14.5M-1994 Standard) is a complete course that teaches the terms, rules, symbols and concepts of GD&T. The tolerance stacks workshop is a three-day advanced course that teaches how to calculate tolerance stacks, a crucial skill that solves problems in the design stage instead of the production stage.

Exclusively from ETI, the Solid Model Tolerancing Workshop is a one-day course that explains the fundamental definitions, concepts, and methods of the new ASME Y14.41-2003 Standard. As past Chairman of the Y14.41 Committee on Solid Model Tolerancing, Krulikowski understands the benefits of a math-based product development process, and his course provides a guide for CAD software developers working on improved modeling and annotation practices for the engineering community.

A complete schedule and registration form for the 2005 public workshop series is available at ETIs website [http://www.etinews.com/news. Early registration and quantity discounts are available. Visit the website, or call 800-886-0909 for details.

Effective Training Incorporated is celebrating its twentieth anniversary providing GD&T products, training, and consulting services. They are a world leader in the field of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing and an international supplier of GD&T training software, books, videos and other teaching materials. To find out more about ETI products and services, including GD&T computer- and web-based training, or to sign up for their free online newsletter, visit www.etinews.com/news.

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