MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS 9e(pb)2010

First written in 1942, this authoritative book covers everything an engineer needs to know about manufacturing systems and processes This book takes a systems-based, rather than process-only, approach to manufacturing The authors present a modern description of processes and its evaluation, including recent developments in the subject It is a comprehensive text that presents over 400 manufacturing processes It discusses a systems orientation to manufacturing, since it is systems that make manufacturing efficient · The Manufacturing System · Nature and Properties of Materials · Production of Ferrous Metals · Production of Nonferrous Metals · Foundry Processes · Contemporary Casting Processes · Basic Machine Tool Elements · Sawing, Broaching, Shaping, and Planning · Grinding and Abrasive Processes · Pressworking and Operations · Heat Treating · Plastic Materials and Processes · Electronic Fabrication · Nontraditional Processes and Powder Metallurgy · Thread and Gear Working · Operations Planning · Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing · Metrology and Testing · Quality Systems · Computer Numerical Control Systems · Process Automation · Operator-Machine Systems · Cost Estimating Phillip F Ostwald and Jairo Munoz