HANDBOOK OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING NGINEERING: CNC, Additive Processes, Metrology, and Smart-Factory Systems: A Complete Reference for Practicing Engineers
On a modern production floor, a single decision about tolerance made in a CAD model travels directly into machining strategy, measurement, quality control, and final cost. Most engineers, though, learn these subjects from separate books that never explain how they connect.
If you work in manufacturing, you have felt the gap. One reference explains metal cutting, another covers measurement, a third addresses quality - and none of them show how a choice in one area quietly reshapes the others. When a part comes back out of tolerance, or a process costs more than it should, the answer usually lives in the space between those disciplines, exactly where scattered resources go silent.
This comprehensive handbook was written to close that gap. It treats advanced manufacturing as one integrated system, building each topic from first principles and then showing how design, machining, measurement, quality, and cost influence one another across the whole production chain.
Inside this book you will:
Understand how tolerance decisions ripple through machining, inspection, and cost, so you can anticipate problems before they reach the floor.Follow fully worked numerical examples, with units tracked from start to finish, that turn theory into calculations you can reuse.Move confidently between conventional machining, non-traditional processes, and additive manufacturing using one consistent way of comparing them.Read measurement, tolerancing, and quality results with a clear framework that links what a drawing specifies to what an instrument can confirm.Connect shop-floor practice to the digital thread that now links design, production, and data across a plant.Key topics span engineering materials; metal cutting and machinability; numerical control and multi-axis machining; non-traditional and energy-beam processes; additive manufacturing and design for additive; forming, joining, and casting; geometric dimensioning and tolerancing; metrology and inspection; automation, control, and industrial robotics; computer-aided design and manufacturing; statistical process control and quality engineering; lean production; smart-factory and digital-manufacturing systems; and manufacturing economics and sustainability.
It is written for practicing manufacturing, mechanical, and industrial engineers, for machinists and technologists moving into engineering roles, and for advanced students preparing to join the production floor. Readers comfortable with undergraduate mechanics, materials, and mathematics will find each process built up from fundamentals before it reaches application.
Add this integrated reference to your library and start connecting the decisions that shape every part you make - from the first tolerance to the finished, measured, costed product.
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