Perfect
training for anyone who uses hand gages for measuring part dimensions
Web-Based • LAN-Based • CD-ROM
Course Description
Course Objectives
Intended Audience
Time to Complete
Course Outline
Why Does My Company Need
This Program?
Gage Mentor is a comprehensive, computer-based interactive
training system that will teach your employees how to use the most commonly used
hand gages. It used to be that proper measuring techniques were passed
down from journey craftsmen to their apprentices. With Gage Mentor your
employees will not only learn how to take measurements, but they will also
learn the underlying principles behind the measurements they are
taking.
Gage Mentor includes
a Gage Primer, specific instructions on how to use a variety of
dimensional gages such as calipers, micrometers, and fixed gages, and
training on how to measure a variety of part characteristics.
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- To provide a solid foundation of good measurement
principles and practices including an introduction to GD&T.
- To teach learners proper measuring techniques for hand
gages including calipers, micrometers, fixed gages, dial indicators.
- To introduce some of the most common misapplications
and complications in measuring.
- To help the learner understand how to take certain
types of measurements including linearity, circularity, roundness, etc.
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Shop floor operators responsible for taking dimensional
measurements.
9 hours
Gage Mentor is divided into three units:
Gage Primer, Using Gages, Gaging Applications
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Today companies are lucky if they have a mentor to teach for newer and
less experienced employees how to use gages; many companies don't. At the
same time, measuring equipment is becoming more sophisticated and
dimensional requirements tighter. In other words, accurate and precise
measuring has never been more important, yet the resources available for
training operators and machinists are more limited than they ever have
been. That is until Gage Mentor, an interactive multimedia
computer-based training program.
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If you already provide gage training
Companies that use Gage Mentor find that it is an
excellent replacement for classroom training. Instead of having to take
several people away from their job for several hours or sometimes even
days, with Gage Mentor they can train people when it is most convenient.
This significantly reduces the cost of training because it takes
non-productive time, such as equipment changeovers or unexpected
maintenance shutdowns, and turns it into productive training time.
In addition, with Gage Mentor you can train employees
around the clock, seven days a week. No longer will third shift be left
out of training opportunities. Companies using Gage Mentor also
find that training time is cut in half over the time it takes to teach the
same information in a classroom. That's because learners control the speed
of the training and can proceed at their pace, not that of the
instructor. Gage Mentor assures that each employee
receives the same, technically correct message. You don't have to worry
that your training will be inconsistent as sometimes happens with
classroom and on-the-job training.
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If you don't already provide gage training
Without training, your employees may not be correctly measuring parts.
This means that they could be accepting bad parts that in turn get shipped
to your customers. Or, it could mean that good parts are being rejected
resulting in unnecessary scrap and rework. If you are not sure if your
employees need gage training, go out on the shop floor and see how they
measure parts. If you see gages being misused, inadequate gage
discrimination being measured, and gages with expired gage calibration
stickers, you have a problem.
Until now, the only way to solve your problem was to either provide
classroom or one-on-one training to each employee who use gages at your
site. That meant resources had to be taken away from other important
projects to address the training problem. Because Gage Mentor
does the training for you, you don't have the problem of juggling
resources. You can continue to focus on key projects and still know that
your employees are being trained.
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