Standard Courses

Prints are manufacturing instructions and generally contain a drawing, dimensions, and notes. Print Reading is the universal form of communication allowing the engineering department and the manufacturing department to communicate all the information that is needed to manufacture a product. Upon completion of the program, you will have gained a new set of skills for reading engineering prints.

How to interpret a technical drawing is an essential skill to anyone involved in the manufacturing industry. This course is designed for those seeking thorough coverage of the subject of drawing interpretation. This course presents the basic elements of a print and introduces the concepts that students must master to successfully interpret engineering drawings. Designed to provide you with an awareness of GD&T fundamentals, this course focuses on the basic requirements of engineering drawings, numeric dimensions and tolerances and geometric dimensions and tolerances.

Intended for practicing professionals who create drawing specifications or read drawings, this course helps students make sense of a topic that some find overwhelming. In this comprehensive class, the key principles are explained and brought down to the real world. The delivery includes and lots of illustrations and animations to help with conveying concepts. More than simply memorizing symbols, students leave this course with a working understanding of how the system works and feel confident fully understanding drawing requirements and creating their own tolerancing schemes for parts.

The Advanced course helps students apply GD&T to achieve the mating and functional requirements of their parts. This course reinforces fundamentals and provides applications-based exercises where students apply what they have learned. Application practice exercises and calculations are performed individually and in teams. The use of functional dimensioning and tolerancing schemes and its effect on assemblies is emphasized throughout the course. Students will expand their understanding of the implications of their specifications on function, manufacturing, inspection, and quality. Students will gain experience and confidence selecting the product definition strategy for an assembly by working more advanced application examples with their peers under the guidance of an expert in a classroom setting.

This course helps students apply GD&T to achieve the mating and functional requirements of their parts using a series of case study problems including sheet metal, machined parts, plastic parts, castings etc. Light on lecture and heavy on participation, calculations and exercises are performed individually and in teams. This course provides realistic design problems where students apply what they have learned while reinforcing their understanding of the fundamentals.

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) is a set of overlapping principles applied to engineering design that consider requirements beyond the functional. DFA ensures a good design early in the design process by focusing on the number of parts, part handling, and ease of assembly. DFM achieves good product designs using simple manufacturing techniques and using standardized parts and materials. Together DFMA helps organizations reach the goal of developing quality products at the lowest cost while saving time. This 3-day workshop will provide you with fundamental knowledge and hands-on practice with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles and key tools.

Intended for the professional or manager seeking an awareness of dimensioning and tolerancing who does not need to further their knowledge with a more in-depth course. Designed to provide you with an awareness of GD&T fundamentals, this course focuses on the basic requirements of engineering drawings, numeric dimensions and tolerances and geometric dimensions and tolerances.

Though released in 2019, the most current standard defining dimensioning and tolerancing practices and their interpretation carries the ASME Y14.5-2018 designation. A revision of ASME Y14.5-2009, it contains many clarifications and improvements on the standard it replaces. Important changes include: concept of feature of size; datum references and degrees of freedom; composite position tolerances; surface boundaries and axis methods of interpretation; profile tolerances; and symbology and modifier tools. This course highlights the most significant of these changes and provides answers to your questions on the added, changed, and deleted content as compared to the previous revision. Don’t be left behind following outdated standards, get current with the GD&T ASME Y14.5-2018 update.