Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: A Practical Guide to Materials, Processes, Machining, Automation, Quality Control, and Advanced Production Technologies - Softcover

Sterling, Thomas E

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798172758485

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing
A Practical Guide to Materials, Processes, Machining, Automation, Quality Control, and Advanced Production Technologies

Every manufactured product hides a chain of decisions: which material to choose, which process will shape it, how to hold its tolerances, how to join its parts, and how to keep quality consistent at scale. Most engineers and students learn these decisions in fragments — a materials course here, a machining lab there, a separate unit on automation — and are left to connect the dots on their own. Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing was built to close that gap.

Instead of treating casting, forming, machining, joining, metrology, and automation as isolated topics, this handbook presents manufacturing as one connected engineering system. It starts with the structure of production itself — cycle time, capacity, utilization — then builds outward through material behavior, the major shaping and machining process families, joining and assembly, and finally into CNC programming, statistical quality control, robotics, and additive manufacturing. Each chapter shows not just how a process works, but why it behaves the way it does, what variables actually control the result, and how that choice ripples forward into cost, quality, and the next stage of production.
What sets this book apart is its consistency and its discipline. Every one of its sixteen chapters follows the same rigorous structure: clear learning objectives, theory built from first principles, equations tied to physical meaning and correct units, fully worked examples that show the reasoning behind each answer — not just the number — and practice problems with answer keys for self-check or classroom use. Nearly ninety figures and dozens of comparison tables translate abstract mechanisms into visual, memorable references, while a full glossary and chapter-indexed index make the book as useful for lookup as it is for cover-to-cover study.
Inside, you'll find:

• A complete process landscape : casting, bulk and sheet forming, polymer/ceramic/composite processing, conventional and nontraditional machining, and joining, compared by capability and limitation rather than listed as disconnected techniques
• Real engineering calculation : cutting forces, machining time, tool life, statistical process capability, robot and cell productivity, and additive build-time estimation, worked step by step
• A dedicated quality and metrology chapter covering GD&T, control charts, and process capability, tying design intent directly to production performance
• Forward-looking chapters on CNC/CAD-CAM, industrial robotics, and additive manufacturing, digital twins, and sustainable production — extending the fundamentals into where manufacturing is heading
• SI-first units with US customary equivalents where industry practice demands them, so the math matches the shop floor

Whether you're a student building your first working understanding of manufacturing systems, an instructor looking for a text with genuine pedagogical structure, or a practicing engineer who needs a dependable technical reference, this handbook is designed to be read in sequence or used chapter by chapter without losing the connections between them.

Manufacturing rewards people who understand the whole system, not just one machine at a time. Start building that understanding today — pick up your copy of Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing and see how the pieces fit together.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798172758485
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476
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