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Solutions for World-Class Manufacturing to help you....

• Increase your company's bottom line
  
• Lower down time
  
• Decrease your rework
  
• Clearly define tightening strategies and processes
  
• Plan auditing procedures before, during and after assembly
  
• Gain confidence in the quality of your assembly processes
  
  

Who should attend

• Plant Managers
  
• Assembly Engineers
  
• Manufacturing Engineers
  
• Production Managers
  
• Quality Control Personnel
  
• Assembly Personnel
  
• Maintenance Personnel
  
  

Seminar Outline

• History and purpose of threaded fasteners
  
• Fasteners and joint components
  
• Joint types, design stiffness and joint rate
  
• Torque… what is it and how do we use it?
  
• Energy distribution
  
• Friction… unintended and intended
  
• Mechanical and chemical locking mechanisms
  
• Hand and power torque tools
  
• Tightening strategies
  
• Torque measurement equipment
  
• Torque auditing methods
  
• Traceability of torque instruments

Each attendee will be given an Introductory Primer that closely follows the seminar subjects.

About the Instructor

Michael Hawes has over 20 years experience in tightening and measuring bolted connections.
He has worked on a wide variety of assembly applications, including in the following industries:

• Light-to-Medium Assembly: automotive, aircraft, motorcycles, RV's, boats, personal watercraft, electronics, and telecommunications.
  
• Heavy Industrial: railroad, locomotives, power generation, refineries, foundries, shipbuilding, offroad and construction equipment.
  
• Medical: pacemakers, defibrillators, halo clamps, safety syringes, and implants.
  
• Government: ammunition, weapon systems, flight, space, surface ship, submarines, and tanks.

Michael Hawes is the Business Development Manager for the Torque Measurement Systems product group at AIMCO. His responsibilities include presenting seminars throughout the U.S. and international sites, developing tutorials for torque tightening seminars and conducting torque/clamp load studies for numerous clients.