Take advantage of ETI’s June web special to purchase the best ASME Y14.5-2009 reference on the market. Buy two Ultimate GD&T Pocket Guides,  and get one free!

The 2009 GD&T pocket guide has 50% more content than the 1994 pocket guide. Its larger format allows room for more charts and graphics, but it still fits in a shirt pocket.

The pocket guide has a glossary, references to the standard, and index tabs on page edges that give easy access to GD&T terms, charts, and drawings.  It’s spiral bound, so it lays flat.

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The Ultimate GD&T Pocket Guide is a handy reference tool in one convenient pocket-sized package. Carry it with you on the job and have a resource to all your GD&T questions at your fingertips.

This product is a valuable tool for: designers; product, manufacturing, and quality engineers; CMM operators; checkers; quality personnel; engineers; students; and anyone else who uses GD&T on the job.

At only $14.00, The Ultimate GD&T Pocket Guide is a GD&T resource you can’t afford to be without. Order online at our website before June 30, 2011, to take advantage of our June web special.

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ETI’s June Web Special: Ultimate GD&T Pocket Guide (ASME Y14.5-2009)
Until midnight EST, June 30, 2011, buy two pocket guides at the regular price of $14.00 each, and receive one free. Sorry, no other discounts apply.

Don’t miss our buy two/get one free special! Order one for each member of your department, today.

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From now until February 28, 2011, purchase one seat at our April Fundamentals of GD&T Public Workshop, and bring a friend for free.

If you have a basic understanding of mechanical drawings, we’ll teach you the terms, rules, symbols, and concepts of GD&T as prescribed in the ASME Y14.5M-1994 Standard. You’ll get an in-depth explanation of geometric symbols, including requirements, tolerance zones, and limitations. Read more about the course.

Workshop will be held in ETI’s classroom in Westland, Michigan, 8 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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Read more about the offer here. Call 1-800-886-0909 to register.

I always enjoy a lively discussion (and even some debates) about GD&T,  so I’ve started a new group on LinkedIn to get the conversation started.

The GD&T/Dimensional Engineering group was formed to discuss real world cases and practical solutions related to the topics of engineering drawing standards, GD&T usage, inspection, design analysis, and tolerance stack-ups.

Topics include ASME Y14.5M-1994, ASME Y14.5-2009, ISO GPS, tolerance stacks, gaging and measurement, and GD&T training. If we find the need, we’ll make the most-discussed topics into their own subgroups.

Please take advantage of my open invitation to my fellow GD&T professionals and connect with me on Linkedin.

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A few months ago, I took a survey of readers to see what format they prefer for reading ebooks, specifically textbooks in digital format.

Many of you agreed that the regular ebook readers wouldn’t work well for a textbook, since graphs, charts, and images wouldn’t retain the same layout as the printed page.

For our first foray into the world of digital textbooks and reference materials, we’ve chosen to go with lulu.com. They use a pdf  format that can be read with Adobe Digital Editions (free download) on a PC, Mac, or Sony Reader. The pdf format allows the book to retain its original layout, with unaltered charts and graphics. It also allows some of the excellent features that a digital book is known for which makes navigating the ISO Reference Guide a breeze:

• digitally highlight important ISO GPS topics
• bookmark passages of interest, including our handy ASME/ISO comparison chart
• use the links from ISO topics in each section’s contents pages to jump to explanations in the text
• search the text for instant access to ISO terms

Alex Krulikowski’s ISO Geometrical Tolerancing Reference Guide is now available in pdf format on lulu.com. The ebook is on sale for 25% off during the month of October. Until midnight, October 31, 2010, you can order your ebook for only $50 from lulu.com

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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.

Read the full article here.

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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.