James D. Meadows, ASME Sr. Level Certified GDTP:

• has been a full-time GD&T trainer/consultant since 1982 (decades of GD&T applications experience);

• is a dynamic communicator and nationally and Internationally recognized as a GD&T 'expert' in:

design, manufacturability, inspection techniques, tolerance stack-up analysis, and the design of and dimensioning and tolerancing for gages and fixtures (as Chairman of ASME Y14.43-2003. the world's only gaging standard);

• had trained thousands of engineering and technical professionals on GDT topics for the private sector, universities and government/government contractors/military (such as Aerojet, Mare Island, BAE, Battelle, CWI, FMC, Kilgore Flares, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences, Redstone Arsenal, United Defense, Westinghouse, NASA, Lockheed Martin, NSWC, NAWC);

• has conducted GDT training, and consulted on, thousands of product lines (such as satellites, shuttle engines, heart/hip/knee implants, automobiles, motorcycles, armored personnel carriers, submarines, medical devices, computers, a variety of military munitions, pens, computer games, etc.);

• is an active member of eleven (11) ANSI/ASME/ISO committees, that write the standards for the U.S. and International communities, including:

Y14Main Committee

Y14.5 SG

Y14.5.1

Y14.43 (Chairman) Dimensioning and Tolerancing Principles for Gages and Fixtures

Y14.36 (Chairman) Surface Texture Symbols;

• has written 10 books on GD&T, the most current seven of which are:

1) Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007  The most comprehensive GD&T textbook ever written by a single author has the unprecedented ability to cover almost every facet of tolerancing... all in one book - GD&T and GD&T Advanced Concepts, Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis, Statistical Tolerancing, CMM Measurement, and Functional Gage and Fixture Design - Dimensioning and Tolerancing. 

2) Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007 Workbook and Answerbook The Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007 Workbook and Answerbook offers a wide variety of practical examples and worksheets that demonstrate the concepts in the corresponding textbook also written by Mr. Meadows (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007). This workbook/answerbook includes dimensioning and tolerancing applications problems commonly faced by professionals working in design, manufacturing, inspection and gaging disciplines. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007 Workbook and Answerbook supplies worksheets covering many product types and gives detailed explanations of their answers. It presents the solutions in an easy-to-understand manner. This book also includes a section of word problems that would help prepare anyone interested in taking the ASME Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional Certification exam.

It encompasses all aspects of industry and complies with the latest ASME/ANSI/ISO standards. It shows the proper application and interpretation of geometric tolerancing requirements, their analysis and measurement. Included in this Workbook/Answerbook is 1) an Overview of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, 2) Applications Problems, 3) Word Problems, 4) an Answerbook and 5) a Reference Section with additional illustrations and explanations.

3) Differences and Similarities between ASME and ISO Dimensioning and Tolerancing Standards  This book compares the most important differences and similarities between the ASME Y14.5M-1994 dimensioning and tolerancing standard and ISO standards and technical reports on dimensioning and tolerancing practices.  Unlike other products similar to this on the market, all references in this book from ISO and ASME standards are absolutely up to date as of October 2006.

4) Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing This best-selling, 625-page textbook was written to explain the ASME Y14.5M-1994 standard and is already in its 14th printing.  300+ illustrations.  Written in an easy-to-understand format.

5) Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing: Workbook and Answerbook  is 340 pages that corresponds chapter by chapter to the above-referenced textbook and the Mr. Meadows' DVD GDT Training Series.

6) Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis This best-selling 325-page combination text-workbook/answerbook of single- and multiple-part assemblies in comprehensive, clear and easy-to-follow.

7) Measurement of Geometric Tolerances in Manufacturing is a 455-page, fully illustrated, highly insightful, GD&T measurement and inspection book per ASME Y14.5M-1994.

• has a background in manufacturing-inspection-gaging and education.  He

- has been a Journeyman Die Maker, Prototype Machinist, and Jig and Fixture Builder

- has taught at a variety of colleges and universities (such as Univ. of California Space and Science Laboratories, Motorola University) and

- currently teaches courses for the University of Wisconsin and ASME;

• makes a technically difficult topic easy to understand and interesting.  His 'applications-based' GDT training sessions are lively, entertaining and extremely in depth;

• has decades of experience on how to approach dimensioning and tolerancing problems and has a basis of knowledge for a quick and proven solution to his clients' GD&T problems.