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 Exclusively from ETI, this advanced course will show you how to calculate tolerance
stacks, a crucial skill in today¶s competitive workplace. Solve problems in the design stage instead of the
production stage, and save time and money by getting it right the first time.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is a valuable tool for individuals who create or interpret
engineering drawings:
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product and gage designers; process, product, and manufacturing 
 
 
engineers; supplier quality engineers; CMM operators; buyers/purchasers;      
checkers; inspectors; technicians; and sales engineers.    
 
  
Workshop Highlights
The workshop is based on a series of goals and objectives. It includes numerous practice problems and
in-depth coverage of tolerance stacks applications. You¶ll learn how to use tolerance stacks to establish
part tolerances, analyze design, create process designs, use geometric tolerances in stacks, and much
much more.CEUs will be awarded for successful completion of the course. 

Skill Level Needed

Please be aware that this is not an introductory course. In order to qualify for this course, you must
already know how to read a blueprint and be familiar with the fundamentals of geometric tolerancing. We
recommend taking GD&T fundamentals and advanced concepts workshops before attempting this
course. 

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‡ A copy of ñ
 
 textbook, by Alex Krulikowski
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‡ Class handouts
‡ An official certificate of completion

Dorm t: Covers the complete principles of tolerance stacks and can be completed in a three-day or 10-
session course. Topics covered include: 

à Importance of stacks
à Prerequisite skills
à Introduction to stacks
à The four basic stack steps
à Part stacks using coordinate dimensions
à Part stacks using runout
à Part stacks using profile
à Part stacks using position
à Part stacks using bonus (planar & RFS datums)
à Part stacks using position with bonus and shift
à Part stacks using multiple geometric tolerances
à Assembly stacks using coordinate dimensions
à Assembly stacks using runout
à Assembly stacks using profile
 Ã Assembly stacks using position
à Stacks using form controls applied to a feature
à Stacks using straightness applied to a feature of size
à Stacks using orientation controls applied to a feature
à Stacks using orientation controls applied to a feature of size
à Assembly stacks using multiple geometric tolerances
à Stack matrix chart
à Evaluating a stack answer

Students who attend our workshops walk away with more than knowledge. They gain on-the-job skills
because our materials are performance-based, and each workshop approaches the subject from a design
perspective.

For more onsite workshop information ² or to request a custom quote package ² contact a GD&T
account executive at 1-800-886-0909, email sales@etinews.com, or use our online training quote request
form.

xomp nion produ
ts: Tolerance Stacks textbook, The GD&T Ultimate Pocket Guide; ASME Y14.5M-
1994 Reference chart

All the machining process produces the components within certain amount of tolerance
to its desired dimensions. As the precision of the machining process increases, the
tolerance gets reduced, but no practical machine can produce components with zero
tolerance. Due to this tolerance only, the concept of MMS, LMS and bonus tolerance is
developed.

The situation become even more complicated when multiple components with different
tolerances form an assembly. For such an assembly, what will be the tolerance? How to
calculate the whole assembly tolerance? Assembly tolerance chain analysis or
tolerance stack up analysis is the answer.

Wh t is Assembly Toler n
e St
k up An lysis?

In short, assembly tolerance stack up analysis will tell you the tolerance value of the
whole assembly or a specific gap of the assembly when you know the tolerance values
of all its components.

Assembly tolerance chain stack up analysis can be performed in many ways. The
simplest method is the worst case method, which we are going to discuss here.
Worst x se Method of Assembly Toler n
e St
k Up
Say, we have an assembly of four thick plates like below:

The thickness and tolerance of the four plates are shown in the above figure. We have
to find out the dimension ³X´ and its tolerance value. Proceed as below:

à Calculate the lower specification limit (LSL)size for each of the plates like below:

For èLAT9:

LSL= 27 = 266

For èLAT92:

LSL=  = 7

For èLAT9:

LSL=  = 7

For èLAT9:

LSL=  = 

à Sum up the LSL thickness values of all the plates, and you will get the LSL
thickness of the whole assembly as below:

TL = 266 +7 + 7 +  = 7

à Calculate the upper specification limit (USL)size for each of the plates like below:

For èLAT9:

USL= 27+ = 27

For èLAT92:
USL= + = 

For èLAT9:

USL= + = 

For èLAT9:

USL= + = 

à Sum up the USL thickness values of all the plates, you will get the USL of the
whole assembly as below:

TU = 27 +  +  +  = 7

à Tolerance of the whole assembly can obtained as:

 (TU ± TL) / 2 = ± (77)/2 = ± 

à Sum up the nominal thickness dimensions of all the plates to get the nominal
thickness value of the whole assembly, like below:

TN = 27 +  +  +  = 72

à So, by the worst case method we got the overall dimension (X) of the assembly
as:

X = 72  

xon
lusion
Assembly tolerance chain stack up analysis is used for calculating the tolerance value
of the overall assembly (or a gap in the assembly) from the tolerance values of the
individual components. The worst case method of the stack up analysis is the simplest
among all the methods used in industry.

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