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Our training programs are tailored to your business. Your personnel will
learn the metric system in a hands-on manner, working with the units, metric
drawings, and metric specifications related to their jobs.
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Sampling of our Seminars |
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The very special reference material used in our seminars
consists of a
collection spanning decades. It was developed utilizing hands-on experience
working in several countries and jobs, setting standards in committees, and
facilitating metric changeovers. It contains information from US and foreign
manuals, and digests of ISO, DIN and other standards. The quality of our
programs lead to consulting worldwide and delivering courses through
professional societies, and at variety of businesses. Among them were
Universities, Engineering Societies, Contractors' Associations, ANMC,
AlliedSignal, Bell & Howell, Eveready, DOTs, General Electric, GSA, Gerber
Scientific,
Gillette, HDR, Johnson & Johnson, JPL, R.A. Jones, Lightnin, NASA, NOAA, Otis Elevator,
Perkin-Elmer, Rockwell International, Shuttleworth, Tambrands, Tetra Pak, and UTC
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Metric
Everyone
Should Know
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In less than a day, participants
learn about the progress of metric changeover and how it affects their
lives and professions. Taught by a veteran metrication trainer, the course
invites participation and questions of the widest variety. The program motivates by pointing out reasons for the adoption of
metric
and the simplifications it brings. Through unique exercises, participants
learn the units and acquire confidence in using any of them. They learn
how to convert and, more importantly, how to think metric. They learn
about metric cars, two-by-fours, and how global standardization
impacts us. Suitable for all, novice or expert, layman or professional,
young and old, it is a course every American should take.
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Metric
for Procurement Personnel
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Participants learn about the
progress of the metric changeover and how it affects their lives and
professions. Taught by a compiler of directories of metric product
suppliers and consultant to the US government and numerous businesses, the
course invites participation and questions of the widest variety. The
program motivates by pointing out reasons that lead to the
adoption of metric, the simplifications it brings, and progress in
availability of metric supplies. It shows what units we need to know, how
to obtain a feel for them, how to figure out pricing, and how to recognize
incorrect usage. Aside from the units, participants learn about metric
practices seen in drawings and specifications for fasteners and raw
material used in building, road or machinery construction, hard and soft
metric, and how to recognize what is unobtainable. Two types of courses
are offered, one satisfying the needs of technical, and the other
non-technical personnel.
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Metric for
Technical Personnel
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Participants learn about the
progress of the metric changeover and how it affects their profession.
Taught by a veteran metrication trainer and expert on US and global
engineering standards and practices, the course invites participation and
questions of the widest variety. The program motivates by
pointing out reasons that lead to the adoption of metric, and the
simplifications it brings to engineering. It answers "Why we are
going metric" and explains what "going metric" really
means. Participants learn units pertaining to their field, how to obtain a
feel for them, and how to use them with confidence. They exercise the mass
vs. gravity force distinction, see applications, and learn how to avoid
potential pitfalls. Aside from SI, they learn international and US metric
practices in engineering drafting and design, ISO tolerancing, GD&T,
spec writing, threads, fasteners, raw materials, power transmission
components, building or road construction topics, the implications of the
hard or soft metric approach, purchasing, and how to save with going
metric. Several types of courses are offered, each tailored to the level
of education, job description such as design, inspection, machining, assembly or
construction, and the needs of civil, mechanical, and other engineering.
Courses for engineers involved in the design or manufacture of machinery
for global markets cover the greatest number of topics.
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Metric
for Managers and Strategic Decision Makers
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Participants learn about the
progress of the metric changeover and its effect on strategic planning.
Taught by a veteran of the metric changeover, expert on international
standardization, and consultant to a range of nation's businesses, the
course invites participation and questions of the widest variety.
Participants hear about metric legislation and the challenges their
organization will face changing or not changing. Sharing the experience of
many organizations, the course shows how to facilitate the changeover: It
lists issues that will surface as potential problems, explains the role of
standards personnel and training requirements. It covers the impact of
global harmonization of standards in design, manufacturing and sales on
the company future. Included are ISO certifications, the potential for
gains or losses, hard and soft metric, savings offered by metrication,
how to enforce rationalization, the best timing, budgets and schedules,
and the organizational structure needed for success and cost benefit.
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Units
in Measurement (for Laboratories and Testing)
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Categorizes units used in
measurements, calculations and data presentation, particularly metric and
their US equivalents. Presents a clear explanation of the logic that was
built into SI, shows which units and practices are current and which are
obsolete, exercises the mass vs. gravity force distinction, and correlates
readout accuracy with precision and rounding in conversion. Shows how to
obtain a feel for sizes of new units, potential pitfalls associated with
their use, and the correct way of writing units, prefixes, numbers and
quantities. Taught by the best known metrication expert, member of SI
committees and author of a book on units, the course presents the latest
resolutions of BIPM, ISO/IEC, NIST and similar guiding bodies. Handouts
include reference numbers for over 50 physical quantities.
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Metric
for Administrative Personnel
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metrication in this country and abroad and the status of the changeover in
their organization. Explains the basic units everyone needs to understand
and how to use prefixes. Exercises help in acquiring the feel for the
units and in recognition which metric units are current and which are
obsolete. The complete, up-to-date rules for writing units, prefixes and
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