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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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Covers the background of 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 numbers in SI are presented and practiced on real-world
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