Start a successful career in machining

Metalworking is an exciting field that's currently experiencing a shortage of qualified machinists—and there's no time like the present to capitalize on the recent surge in manufacturing and production opportunities. Covering everything from lathe operation to actual CNC programming, Machining For Dummies provides you with everything it takes to make a career for yourself as a skilled machinist.

The book series on manufacturing processes for engineers is a reference work for scientific and industrial experts. This volume on Turning, Milling and Drilling starts from the basic principles of machining with geometrically defined cutting edges based on a common active principle. 

Tool and Manufacturing Engineers' Handbook: Material and Part Handling in Manufacturing v. 9 Get the expert advise you need to shrink handling costs, reduce downtime and improve efficiency in plant operations! You'll use this comprehensive handbook during post design, process selection and planning, for establishing quality controls, tests, and measurements, to streamline production, and for managerial decision-making on capital investments and new automated systems.

This volume focuses on the practical application of processes for manufacturing plastic products. It includes information on design for manufacturability (DFM), material selection, process selection, dies, molds, and tooling, extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, lamination, rotational molding, casting, foam processing, compression and transfer molding, fiber reinforced processing, assembly and fabrication, quality, plant engineering and maintenance, management.

Discover the benefits of implementing a continuous improvement program, including higher quality and lower cost of products, fewer problems in the execution of jobs, increased prestige in the marketplace, increased productivity through greater efficiency, and opportunities for reduced inventory. You'll learn how to deploy your company resources to maximum efficiency, produce higher quality products, and understand how to identify and correct problems that become obstacles to sustaining profitability.

Addresses important topics of DFM, including how it relates to Concurrent Engineering, management issues, getting started in DFM, how to justify using DFM, applying quality tools and how DFM is affecting computer technology (and vice versa). Covers topics starting with the creative thinking process, to combining DFM with geometrical dimensioned tolerancing. Also includes product design information that designers should know when committing pen to paper or mouse to mat.

Engineers, corporate managers, project managers, and production managers will use Manufacturing Management to answer important planning questions, manage new systems and technologies, and to integrate design, engineering, and manufacturing to bring products to market faster at the most competitive cost. 

Volume 5 also helps you focus on management' s role in quality programs such as setting objectives, monitoring outcomes, and how to make continuous quality improvements while reducing quality costs.

Quality Control and Assembly helps you meet today's competitive pressures for measuring quality, making continuous quality improvements, streamlining assembly, and making the transition to automated assembly systems and applications.

Volume 3 helps you and your production team use new materials, choose the most efficient surface and edge preparation techniques, and apply coatings that enhance the appearance and performance of your final product. You'll use this book to analyze the machinability, formability and weldability of your materials, and to help assess heat treatment systems, coating processes and materials, application and curing methods, and more.

You'll rely on Forming to help you understand over 50 forming processes plus the advantages, limitations, and operating parameters for each process. Save valuable production time and gain a competitive edge with practical data that covers both the basics and advanced forming processes. 

Forming also helps you choose the most appropriate materials, utilize innovative die designs, and assess the advantages and limitations of different press types and processes.