Dimensional and Tolerance management projects are best undertaken in three phases. This method has been proven to give the most cost effective way to achieve your GD&T goals.

The national standard, adopted by the client, needs to be fully understood. Seize A Solution Limited has a range of training courses and workshops that can be tailored to your company's way of working.

Phase One
Phase one is designed to harmonise the understanding of GD&T within your company. The confusion about the philosophy will be alleviated giving your company a uniform understanding of GD&T.

All training and consultancy is performed in accordance to BS 8888 or the ASME Y14.5 standard

GD&T Fundamental Training Course:
This 3 day training course will cover the fundamentals of GD&T as well as a comprehensive study of the 14 Geometric symbols, the Datum System and rules to apply GD&T.

GD&T Application Workshop:
This 2 day workshop will concentrate on the application of GD&T to your own parts and assemblies. This will include a study of the optimum Datum System, tolerance calculations and best practise GD&T application.

The full course content is available on application.

The course in accordance to the BS 8888 (ISO standard) carries recognition from the British Standards Institution and a BSi certificate can soon be awarded to the delegate for attendance of the course.

Phase Two
After the relevant personnel have received their fundamental training, those who have the responsibility of applying GD&T to the drawing and CAD models will need a level of mentoring, Seize A Solution Limited have extensive and proven experience to aid your personnel to derive functional GD&T which will show the function of the part and design intent. This mentoring programme can be extended to the manufacturing and quality departments to ensure the interpretation of the GD&T is being understood to the adopted national standards.

Phase Three
Take advantage of your digital environment. With the advance of CAD technology, it is now possible to attach 3D GD&T to your CAD models, to analyse the GD&T and within your assemblies, identifying potential build problems and fix them before you actually manufacture a component. You can also program your CMM machines to collect the point data from the actual component, then analyse the points to the CAD models. Using GD&T as the analytical engine, you can verify that the component complies with the functional dimensions derived using GD&T.