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U.S. Fastener Training Institute (FTI) announces two new fastener training classes for 2013: Aerospace Fastener Technology and Metric Fasteners for Professionals.

Aerospace Fastener Technology, co-produced with the Industrial Fasteners Institute (IFI) is offered as both a two-day and a three-day class, August 27 to 29, 2013. This technical course was created to provide a better understanding of aerospace fasteners for distributors, fastener manufacturers and specifying and consuming OEMs, and will include classroom instruction along with tours of fastener manufacturing plants. You’ll see cold heading, hot heading, thread rolling, heat treating, plating and an inspection laboratory.

Topics include:
• Aerospace fastener standards
• Terminology
• Thread specifications and inspection
• Government contracting
• Metallurgy
• Commercial vs. military aerospace
• Corrosion and fastener coatings
• Fastener failures
• Quality management
• Tightening methods

Instructors are Salim Brahimi (IBECA Technologies) and Carmen Vertullo CFS (CarVer Consulting).

Metric Fasteners for Professionals was developed to fill the knowledge gap between metric and inch fasteners. Offered on November 5, 2013, this one-day advanced course will provide valuable and usable information to participants who must service a worldwide market, most of which is metric. Topics include:
• What makes metric fasteners different
• Metric fastener math
• Things that you must know to speak metric without an accent
• How to help end users specify metric fasteners
• Metric fastener standards, ISO the way forward
• Material standards, dimensional standards
• Metric tolerances, blueprints and inspection
• Metric for assembly, who uses what and why
The instructor for this course is Carmen Vertullo, CFS.