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James D. Meadows, GD&T ‘expert’, Releases New Book

Product News Wednesday, April 18, 2007: James D. Meadows & Associates, Inc.

James D. Meadows, GD&T ‘expert’, releases new book entitled, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007. This book is a compilation of 5 different GD&T topic textbooks...all in one book.

This is the most comprehensive GD&T textbook ever written by a single author. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007 has the unprecedented ability to cover almost every facet of tolerancing. Unlike any before it, this GD&T textbook, and the courses based on it, can cover all the tolerancing-related topics time allows (time is your only limiting factor in topics to be covered in a workshop)...but the textbook has it all. Some of the general topic categories covered are: Basic GD&T, Advanced GD&T Concepts/Applications, Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis, Statistical Tolerancing, Measurement, and Functional Gage and Fixture Design-Dimensioning and Tolerancing.

Although based on the rules found in the ASME Y14.5 standard, it also covers topics from other recently published standards by ASME not found in older texts.

It includes step-by-step procedures for dimensioning and tolerancing parts and assemblies. It shows how to analyze the tolerances applied using both worst case and statistical analysis. This book demonstrates the connection between the application of functional geometric tolerances and its effect on manufacturability and inspection, stressing optimal ways to achieve a high-quality product at the lowest possible cost to the customer.