This document discusses tolerances and variations in manufacturing processes. It introduces key concepts:
1. Variations are unavoidable in manufacturing and tolerances allow for acceptable ranges of variation. Tolerances depend on functional requirements.
2. Components have basic sizes but can only be manufactured within upper and lower tolerance limits. The difference between these limits is the permissible tolerance.
3. Tolerances are classified as unilateral, bilateral, compound, or geometric and influence how parts fit together within acceptable tolerance ranges.