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Manufacturing and Design
Understanding the Principles of How Things Are Made

An introduction to manufacturing processes emphasizing the relationship between product design and manufacturing method.

Erik Tempelman (Author), Hugh Shercliff (Author), Bruno Ninaber van Eyben (Author)

9780080999227, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 28 March 2014

310 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2 cm, 0.66 kg

Manufacturing and Design presents a fresh view on the world of industrial production: thinking in terms of both abstraction levels and trade-offs. The book invites its readers to distinguish between what is possible in principle for a certain process (as determined by physical law); what is possible in practice (the production method as determined by industrial state-of-the-art); and what is possible for a certain supplier (as determined by its production equipment). Specific processes considered here include metal forging, extrusion, and casting; plastic injection molding and thermoforming; additive manufacturing; joining; recycling; and more.

By tackling the field of manufacturing processes from this new angle, this book makes the most out of a reader's limited time. It gives the knowledge needed to not only create well-producible designs, but also to understand supplier needs in order to find the optimal compromise. Apart from improving design for production, this publication raises the standards of thinking about producibility.

  1. Introduction

  2. Product Disassembly Studies

  3. Shape Casting of Metals

  4. Sheet Metal Forming

  5. Extrusion of Metals

  6. Forging of Metals

  7. Machining

  8. Injection Molding of Thermoplastics

  9. Thermoforming

  10. Resin Transfer Molding

  11. Additive Manufacturing

  12. Joining and Assembly

  13. None of the Above

  14. Recycling

  15. Manufacturing Process Choice

Subject Areas: Technical design [TBD], Engineering: general [TBC]

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