Manufacturing process selection handbook

• Main Author: Swift, K. G.
• Other Authors: Booker, J. D.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013
• Subjects: Manufacturing processes > Planning.; Engineering design.; Production planning.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780080993577; 0080993575; 9780080993607; 0080993605
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The selection of suitable manufacturing processes is an essential part of the design process - but it is often seen as secondary to the choice of component form and shape, regularly resulting in late engineering changes, high costs, and compromised quality. Novice design engineers in particular lack...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to the handbook
• Process selection strategies and case studies
• Casting processes
• Forming processes
• Plastics and composites processing
• Machining processes
• Non-traditional machining processes
• Rapid prototyping processes
• Surface engineering processes
• Assembly systems
• Joining processes
• Component costing
• Assembly costing.