eBook Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Instructor's Manual: Materials, Processes, and Systems ePub

I think 45 chapters contain in this book are interesting from of mechanical engineering.point of view, by moment, my opinion only is referenting some of them.

Chapters on casting process, machining, and metal working are writing wiith great details, figures, charts, etc. are easy to understand for a reader with basic knowledge , no experience in a manufacturer field.

I like the modern approach of this book because include CNC machining,centers and I know this subject has a high impact today.

So I recommendate to buy and read this book for reader who interesting on the sujects abouth mechanical engineering.

Jaime Z.
February 13, 2014

Needed this for a Manufacturing Process & Materials class and really ended up not using it much. It contains a ton of information and goes into great detail for some of the most minor things, some of it great to know, a lot of it was rather useless. I found myself just skimming through chapters rather than reading them. Overall, if you need this book for a college class, see how the info in the book and the material your professor is teaching you line up. If the professor looks like he's skimming through the book himself for his class lecture, then you will probably not need this book at all and it'll save yourself a few hundred bucks.

It is an ok book but most of the information is on Google for free.. Focuses on some of the wrong concepts from my experience in industry.

This magnificent 1,000 page 5th edition of a timeless classic on manufacturing is as much a practical handbook as it is a text. Each page is PACKED with useful formulas, examples, pictures and diagrams solving practical HOW TO problems in manufacturing, from materials science to casting, molding, sintering, welding and much more, including metals, plastics, glass, integrated circuits and far more. There are supposedly only 63 "formal" problems in the whole text, but needless to say the examples themselves, on nearly every page, give practical solutions, rules of thumb, shortcuts and even rigorous formulas where required (although few proofs or derivations, as this is more on the practical side, which is perfect for an applied audience but not if you're teaching theory and proofs of the equations). Some economics are covered, but not a lot, and not in depth, as other texts focus on that aspect as specialties.

I also use this to teach online classes, and although the text is usually $200, many sellers are importing the "international" edition (read: India for $30 new instead of $200) which IS the edition that is reviewed here. If you have a problem with these kinds of imports you might want to pass, but from a content viewpoint it is identical to the $200 edition, the binding is sound, and although the pages are thin and black and white, they are odor free and sturdy enough for handbook use. If you've gotten SI editions before, you know why I mention these parameters. Of course India uses SI units, but that is not as big an issue here since the math is universal.

Highly recommended regardless of which format you choose. Much of the material in this text is becoming a "lost art" in the West today with so much manufacturing having moved to Japan, China and India. Process manufacturing is not covered as extensively as discrete and assembly operations, although items like light bulbs and other silcone and glass processes are now being looked at as discrete liquid flows, with hybrid techniques between process and discrete. There is not a lot of "10,000 foot" detail on strategies between put out, job shop, distributed vs. centralized, indoor vs. outdoor, etc. as in oil refineries vs. auto production, but that's because this is a DETAIL text on the math behind the trees more than the forest. With those caveats in place, you'll find this a treasured addition to your library beside the more general economic, process and strategic/ facility texts.

This is a good textbook. Well worth having.

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The text appears to be ok though I expect this book to fall apart before the end of my semester. The binding arrived crushed and the book clearly took a lot of falls. As someone who likes to keep their text books I am very disappointed with the arrival quality, even for a used book.

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