ETI is seeking ASME senior-level certified GD&T instructors who speak fluent French or Spanish.

Are you capable of teaching geometric dimensioning and tolerancing at the fundamentals level?

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If so, please contact ETI using this form.

The latest issue of Mechanical Engineering Magazine  features an article discussing whether or not the advantages of model-based definition justify the effort to change engineering, manufacturing, and inspection practices.

“Digital Tolerance,” by Associate Editor Jean Thilmany, includes quotes from Alex as an expert on the ASME Y14.41-2003 Standard on Digital Product Definition Data Practices. Alex served as chairman of the Y14.41 Committee and developed a course on Solid Model Tolerancing that is available as an onsite workshop through ETI.

Engineers and manufacturers can use the standard to communicate model tolerancing in an accepted way, Krulikowski said. “If one company shows model tolerances one way and another company another way, the user doesn’t know how to find them on the drawing, or how to interpret them and read them,” he said.

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In 1985, Alex Krulikowski began a small start up company that provided training and consulting in a little-known discipline called geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Twenty-five years later, Effective Training Inc. has evolved into a corporation that provides GD&T training, products and services to organizations across the globe.

Alex and ETI would like to thank our clients for supporting us for the past 25 years. We look forward to providing you with GD&T products and services in the future. Please take advantage of our gift to you: 25% off selected products and services.

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Read about ETI’s history.

ETI likes to stay one step ahead of emerging technologies. Over the past 25 years, the company has utilized the most current tools available when developing our GD&T products and training formats.

We’ve gone from print catalogs to the etinews.com website, which enjoys more than 10,000 visits per month. We’ve upgraded from post card marketing to email marketing. Our training has evolved from self-study workbooks to videos, computer-based, web-based, and live web training. Our instructor materials moved from power point slides to digital instructor kits. We’ve created digital forums, message boards and enewsletters.

All in all, we’ve enjoyed embracing the benefits of the digital age, while we’ve kept our company and products on the cutting edge.

It’s time to decide which e-format to use for our new reference guides and textbooks. Many of the new digital readers work well for novels, but not so well for textbooks with figures, graphics, and charts. If you already read ebooks, or if you’ve been planning to start, we’d like your opinion…

Alex will personally sign his new ISO Geometrical Tolerancing Reference Guide for those who pre-order during the special 25% sale. Read more about the reference guide.

Until April 30, 2010, you can pre-order your copy of the ISO reference guide for only $71, a savings of $24 off the $95 introductory price. Estimated shipping date for the book is mid-May, 2010.

Act now to save money and receive a personally autographed copy of the book.

Alex Krulikowski’s ISO Geometrical Tolerancing Reference Guide is now available for pre-order. The book has taken more than a year to complete and compiles a large amount of information about ISO 1101:2004 and its companion standards into one comprehensive, easily accessible reference guide. This handy reference saves companies from purchasing, researching, and organizing much of the information themselves.

The four major benefits the reference guide provides to your company include:

Ease of Use
ISO standards are organized as single topic documents. This system often means that several ISO standards are required to obtain a complete understanding of a subject. For example, ISO 5458 is the standard on the position tolerance; however, ISO 1101 – Geometrical Tolerances, and ISO 5459 – Datum Specification are also required if one has any hope of understanding any position tolerance specification. In addition, some applications would require ISO 10578:1992 -  Projected Tolerance Zones, and ISO 10579-NR -  Non-rigid Parts to understand a position tolerance specification.

The ISO Reference Guide simplifies using ISO standards by collecting volumes of information into one book with clearly marked topics. Cross-referenced concepts, a glossary, a topical index, and hundreds of easy-to-understand tables and figures complete the explanation of ISO practices. This thorough guidebook explains basic ISO dimensioning concepts and conventions, geometrical tolerances, surface texture and imperfections, and even includes a symbol-by-symbol comparison of ASME Y14.5 and ISO specifications.

Time Savings
Alex and two other dimensional engineering experts spent over a year completing the research, comparison, and analysis of the ISO geometrical product specification (GPS) system. This collective effort, combined with Alex’s insights from his contributions to the ISO TC213 Committee, increased the ability to sort through seemingly conflicting or vague ISO requirements. In industry, this reference guide can save companies hundreds of hours searching for tolerancing information spread over dozens of ISO standards.

Cost Savings
Most companies require multiple copies of their applicable standards. Even if a company could operate with one set of ISO standards for the engineers and designers in a technical center, one set for the machinist and inspectors in the plant, and one set for managers and senior staff to support sales negotiations and contract reviews, the cost could easily be more than $1000 US for each set of standards. Alex Krulikowski’s ISO Geometrical Tolerancing Reference Guide provides an accurate and easy-to-read explanation of these requirements for around $100 US.

Comprehensive Understanding of ISO GPS System
Alex Krulikowski’s ISO Geometrical Tolerancing Reference Guide is written with the influence of nearly 70 ISO geometrical product specification (GPS) standards. More than 20 ISO GPS standards are directly covered in the text, with dozens more cited throughout the book. This reference guide provides the user with a comprehensive understanding of the ISO GPS system and prepares the reader to better understand the text of the ISO standards themselves.

Alex Krulikowski will present a 2-hour educational workshop, Introduction to Y14.41-2003 Digital Product Definition Practices at the end of this month. The presentation is part of the Y14 Standards Meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dayton, Ohio, from April 24-30, 2010.

The session provides an introduction to the ASME Y14.41:2003 standard on digital product data definition data practices. It introduces the fundamental concepts, methods, and terms defined in the standard and includes examples of tolerances displayed on 3D annotated models. The workshop takes place on Friday, April 30, 2010, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am.

Alex served for six years as chairman of the Y14.41 Committee on Solid Model Dimensioning, and is an expert on digital data practices and solid model tolerancing. ETI teaches a one-day onsite workshop that focuses on the ASME Y14.41 Standard.

We’re in the final stages of developing Alex’s new ISO geometrical tolerancing reference guide. At a little over 350 pages, this will be one of the most complete references for geometrical tolerancing on the market.

We’ll be taking pre-orders soon, and we’ll also be offering the guide in e-book format. Check back in the next couple of weeks for our pre-order 25% off sale.

Look inside the book.

More about Alex Krulikowski’s ISO Geometrical Tolerancing Reference Guide:

• Hidden spiral-binding allows it to lay flat
• It contains comprehensive reference charts inside the fold-out covers
• Index tabs are provided for easy access to any topic
• It can be used as an on-the-job reference or as a teaching aid
• One entire section is devoted to a quick comparison of ASME and ISO standards.

Topics include:

• ISO drawing conventions
• GPS basics
• Size and boundary conditions
• Limits and fits
• The datum-system
• Form tolerances
• Orientation tolerances
• Location tolerances
• Run-out tolerances
• Profile tolerances
• General tolerances
• Workpiece edges
• Surface texture
• ISO/ASME comparison
• A full glossary of ISO geometrical tolerancing terms
• Non-rigid parts
• Restraint specifications
• A topical index

ETI is offering special pricing on two of our best reference materials. Both items are valuable resources that will help you transition to the new ASME Y14.5-2009 Standard.

The Ultimate GD&T Pocket Guide and the
ASME Y14.5M-1994 to ASME Y14.5-2009
New Features Comparison Chart Set

Until February 28, 2010, for every three pocket guides your purchase, you’ll get an additional pocket guide free. For every three chart sets you purchase, you’ll receive one additional set free. Web orders only.

Sorry, no other discounts apply. Order today and save.

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We also have a course for those who want to understand the differences between the 1994 and 2009 ASME standards:
The one-day ASME Y14.5-2009 Update Workshop will teach you about the pertinent changes made to the Y14.5 standard. You’ll learn how the subject matter has been reorganized, and about new sections that have been created for profile, orientation, and form. We offer onsite workshops at your location, public workshops in the Detroit area, and live web workshops that you can access anywhere. Read more about the course.

Sales for our new pocket guide are going through the roof!  We’ve extended the  buy 2/get 1 free sale to January 31, 2010, and there’s only one week left. Until Sunday at midnight, if you order 2 pocket guides, you’ll get 1 free.

You can now see a detailed view of the Ultimate GD&t Pocket Guide. We’ve added page views of the information-packed covers, tabbed pages, table of contents, and pages with reference material and GD&T application examples. See the examples here.