Automotive Training
Geometrical Tolerancing in Automotive
Practical training in geometrical tolerancing, tailored for the Automotive and Industrial Machinery sector.
Course Description
Built for Industry
This intensive programme introduces the fundamental principles of geometrical tolerancing, with a focus on the aspects most relevant to the Automotive and Industrial Machinery sector. The course can be delivered to either BS 8888 & ISO GPS or ASME Y14.5 standards, depending on client requirements.
By bridging the gap between theory and practice, the course helps teams apply standards with greater clarity across design, manufacturing, and inspection.
Course Objectives
What Participants Learn
By completing this course, participants build practical understanding they can apply throughout a part’s lifecycle.
Core Principles
Grasp the core principles that make the standards easier to understand.
Key Symbols
Become fluent in the key terminology, rules, and most commonly used symbols from the standards.
Effective Application
Learn when and how to use tolerance symbols effectively, and how the standards are used, interpreted and applied across a part’s life cycle.
Datum Strategy
See how correct datum and tolerancing strategy enables a requirements-driven approach, ensuring fitness for purpose and unambiguous capture of design intent.
Production Reality
Learn how tolerancing strategy is shaped by manufacturing and inspection realities.
Real Drawings
Work with real Automotive & Industrial drawings and parts to see how the standards drive better design intent, clearer communication, and more efficient production.
Who It Is For
Designed for Teams
Course Details
Requirements and Delivery
Everything needed for effective learning is built into the programme.
Requirements
Participants should have some familiarity with engineering drawings and a background in design, production, or inspection, including the ability to interpret how parts are represented on drawings.
Materials Provided
Detailed course notes including drawing examples, a workbook with exercises and other printable handouts, quizzes and knowledge checks, and a certificate of course completion.
Delivery Format
Onsite or online delivery.
Duration
3 days. An upper limit of 10 delegates is advised to ensure effective learning.
Syllabus
Standards and Application
The syllabus can be aligned to BS 8888 & ISO GPS or ASME Y14.5, depending on client requirements.
Core Content
Principles, benefits, and standards in context; features of size and size tolerances; datums and datum systems; characteristic symbols, tolerance indicators, modifiers, and profile tolerances.
ISO GPS Route
Includes ISO 8015, ISO 17450, BS 8888, ISO 14405-1, ISO 5459, ISO 1101, ISO 1660, ISO 2768, and ISO 22081, plus Maximum Material Requirement and Bonus Tolerance.
ASME Route
Includes Rule #1, Feature Control Frames, Basic Dimensions, Profile Tolerances, Maximum Material Condition, and Bonus Tolerance within the ASME Y14.5 framework.
Industry Application
Application on combustion engine parts such as cylinder head, piston, camshaft, and flywheel housing, plus suspension parts and industrial machinery components such as cherry picker and fork lift parts.