Basic Blueprint Reading

Description

INTRODUCTION

Prints are manufacturing instructions and generally contain a drawing, dimensions, and notes. Print Reading is the universal form of communication allowing the engineering department and the manufacturing department to communicate all the information that is needed to manufacture a product. Upon completion of the program, you will have gained a new set of skills for reading engineering prints.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

On completion of this workshop, the participants will be able to:

• Interpret and describe the technical information provided on industrial prints through drawings, dimensions, and notes.
• Navigate the total manufacturing print, including lines, scale, language, symbols, title blocks, and other components.
• Visualize parts from drawings consisting of multiple views, including basic, auxiliary, partial and various types of section views.
• Identify part dimensions and tolerances including geometric dimensioning & tolerancing.
• Calculate minimum and maximum allowable values for dimensions considering tolerances
• Interpret standard surface finish symbols and screw thread designations.
• Interpret symbols and notes used to communicate special manufacturing requirements that are not directly illustrated and dimensioned.
• Analyze drawing features, symbols and notes unique to castings, forgings, and molded part prints.
• Analyze weld symbols and interpret the unique symbols found on welded part prints and sheet metal prints.
• Analyze drawing features, symbols and notes unique to gears, splines, and cams.
• Identify relevant information from a variety of other common types of prints.

ALL of our courses are developed based on decades of front-line industry experience of the instructor. 

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

• Machine operators
• Quality control inspectors
• NC programmers
• Shop supervisors
• Metal-working manufacturing personnel
• Engineers
• Engineering managers
• Other manufacturing professionals interested in learning how to read blueprints or updating their knowledge in this area.

PREREQUISITES

None

COURSE CONTENT 

This is a 2-DAY CLASSROOM TRAINING with an instructor that has decades of front-line industry experience. Alternately, a Virtual Workshop with a Live Trainer is also available. The virtual workshop is conducted in 4 sessions (4 hours each) over a live web based interactive class.

TOPICS COVERED:

• The Basics of Manufacturing Prints
• The Reading of Manufacturing Prints
• The Total Manufacturing Print
• Views
• Dimensions
• Tolerances
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Surface Finish
• Threads
• Machine Terms and Manufacturing Processes
• Casting, Forging, and Molded Part Prints
• Welding and Sheet Metal Prints 
• Gears, Splines, and Cams
• Types of Manufacturing Prints

INSTRUCTOR 

Charlie Gillis has over 25 years of machine design experience in industry. Through his work with Dynamic Design Consulting, LLC, he helps clients with product design, design for assemblability and manufacturability, design documentation, tolerance stack-up analysis, and related capability-building. He has invented and designed mechanical and electromechanical devices of great diversity, from high-speed, fully-automated precision mechanisms and manufacturing machinery to kinetic sculptures installed as public art.

Charlie earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and his Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and holder of a Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional Certificate- Senior Level (GDTP-S) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). Charlie is a nationally recognized instructor and consultant in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).  He is currently serving as a mechanical design engineer for The Gillette Company, designing automated machinery for manufacturing blade and razor products. He has designed equipment to manufacture the Mach3, Venus, Sensor3, Fusion, and Embrace product lines. He has been training practicing engineers in GD&T, Print Reading, and related mechanical design and documentation topics for the last 10 years.

LOGISTICS 

This training is offered both as a classroom and a virtual training. Locations and Dates are available in the signup options.