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Published: Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 10:59 (NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) has developed a new methodology to learn, retain, and transfer knowledge for Geometric Tolerancing & Dimensioning (GD&T) across an organization. NIMS offers the training in a day and a half workshop. Conventionally, most people are taught print reading with drawings, annotated with limit dimensioning and all its flaws. Lessons in limit dimensioning are further applied in engineering or manufacturing activities. Students or employees are then exposed to GD&T—the international standard, with symbols to describe parts in a language that is clearly understood by any manufacturer. This traditional approach usually results in limit dimensioning being the first language, or “native tongue,” and GD&T being the second. Going back and forth between the two is a struggle for many, and they rely on craftmanship to produce parts. This approach may eventually lead to producing parts within the specifications but, according to NIMS, that approach is inconsistent and wastes time. “GDT is the best way for manufacturers to ensure parts are absolutely within specifications,” says NIMS Executive Director Montez King. “It gives designers, engineers, and machinists a common language to communicate not only for manufacturing, but how those parts fit into its final assembly.” However, like any language, it only works if everyone agrees to speak it and fully understands it. And that’s where NIMS comes in. According to King, the optimal way to learn GDT is to teach employees and students how GD&T works rather than its applications. Teaching GD&T applications restricts understanding and only relays a process or procedure. But when GD&T is understood, as though it’s the person’s native tongue, every application makes sense. In fact, when GD&T is well understood, it's retained, and applications can be improved continuously. NIMS helps organizations transfer GD&T knowledge and skills much the same way children learn their native language. Further, NIMS teaches an organization how to embed GD&T across all lines of communication within the enterprise. By the end of NIMS GD&T training, the staff will be able to understand and use GD&T in all stages of design and production. To make GD&T the first language in your organization, contact NIMS at (703) 352–4971, www.nims-skills.org. Quality Digest does not charge readers for its content. We believe that industry news is important for you to do your job, and Quality Digest supports businesses of all types. However, someone has to pay for this content. And that’s where advertising comes in. Most people consider ads a nuisance, but they do serve a useful function besides allowing media companies to stay afloat. They keep you aware of new products and services relevant to your industry. All ads in Quality Digest apply directly to products and services that most of our readers need. You won’t see automobile or health supplement ads. So please consider turning off your ad blocker for our site. Thanks, For 40 years Quality Digest has been the go-to source for all things quality. Our newsletter, Quality Digest, shares expert commentary and relevant industry resources to assist our readers in their quest for continuous improvement. Our website includes every column and article from the newsletter since May 2009 as well as back issues of Quality Digest magazine to August 1995. We are committed to promoting a view wherein quality is not a niche, but an integral part of every phase of manufacturing and services.NIMS Offers Innovative Teaching Technique to Make GD&T a ‘Native Tongue’
Day and a half workshop to learn, retain, and transfer GD&T knowledge across an organization
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