The IT Grade refers to the International Tolerance Grade of an industrial process define in ISO 286. This grade identifies what tolerances a given process can produce for a given dimension. This specific tolerance for a particular IT grade is calculate via the following formula: T=100.2⋅(ITG−1)⋅(0.45⋅3√D+0.001⋅D), where:
T = tolerance
ITG = IT Grade, a positive integer
D = geometric mean dimension Think of D as being the key dimension on the part and T as being the required tolerance on the key dimension. The larger ITG, the looser the tolerance.