Industrial Press, Inc.

• Covers stocking theory and practice.
• Uses the Pareto Principal throughout as the best way to achieve superior results with a minimum of investment of time by plant personnel.
• Includes the following topics: the risks inherent in setting inventory stocking levels, setting the reorder point, setting the reorder quantity, determining excess inventory, how to avoid unnecessary purchases of spares, and how to set and monitor goals for inventory improvement.  

• Incorporates the useful Pipe Trades Pro calculator (available for purchase together with the book from Industrial Press) throughout the work to help users get fast and accurate solutions that help them save time and reduce material costs.
• Suggests simple calculations for pipe lengths, offsets, weight and volume, flow rates, pressure, area, and more.
• Perfect for those studying for certification exams, designers, operations professionals, in addition to pipefitters working in the field.

Up to now, the best way to get information on 5-axis machining has been by talking to experienced peers in the industry, in hopes that they will share what they learned. Visiting industrial tradeshows and talking to machine tool and Cad/Cam vendors is another option, only these people will all give you their point of view and will undoubtedly promote their machine or solution.

This unbiased, no-nonsense, to-the-point description of 5-axis machining presents information that was gathered during the author's 30 years of hands-on experience in the manufacturing industry, bridging countries and continents, multiple languages - both human and G-Code. As the only book of its kind, Secrets of 5-Axis Machining will demystify the subject and bring it within the reach of anyone who is interested in using this technology to its full potential, and is not specific to one particular CAD/CAM system. It is sure to empower readers to confidently enter this field, and by doing so, become better equipped to compete in the global market.

Features

• Features full-color illustrations through that help to explain the theories and principals.
• Includes a CD containing avi files, high quality illustrations, and sample parts.

"This book explains 5-axis machining in simple terms most people in the field will appreciate and quickly understand. The colorful graphics are nothing short of amazing and generously sprinkled throughout the book with incredible detail. Dozens of machining applications are illustrated and explained while taking much of the fear out of driving these complex machine tools. Anyone associated with 5-axis machine tools has much to gain by reading this book."  

Mark Summers, President
CNC Software Inc.

"… this great book will allow operators, NC programmers and anybody interested in multiaxis machining to learn and understand the reality of 5-axis machining. The crystal clear wording and perfect overview make this book easy to read and simple to understand for everyone, from beginner to expert."

Yavuz Murtezaoglu, Managing Director
ModuleWorks GmbH

Now in its second edition and written by a highly acclaimed maintenance professional, this comprehensive and easy-to-understand resource provides a short review of all the major discussions going on in the management of the maintenance function. This revision of a classic has been thoroughly updated to include advances in technology and thinking and is sure to be found useful by maintenance professionals everywhere. It's the perfect reference for any maintenance professional that needs a quick update on any specific area within the subject.  

Features

• Contains five entirely new chapters, including Dealing with Contracts, 5S, Lean Maintenance, PM Optimizing, and Fire Fighting.
• Offers a complete survey of the field, an introduction to maintenance and a review of maintenance management.
• Provides a manual for cost reduction and a primer for the stockroom.
• Includes a training regime for new supervisors, managers and planners.

This manual is about proven principles of success in metal fabrication. The material presented is practical and in-use, as the examples will show. While the primary focus of this book is on machining titanium, many of the items discussed could apply to any machining or manufacturing enterprise.The look and feel of a world-class shop is described with many examples. If you own, manage, or work at a general or titanium machine shop, or at virtually any metal fabrication shop, you will find yourself referring to this manual over and over again! 

This unique book is perfect for those who are internal consultants…and may not know it… recognize the value of their efforts and help them learn the skills required to optimize their performance. It explains the internal consultant’s role and describes the various tasks in which they become engaged. What’s more, it provides information that will enable users to improve their performance and deliver greater value. Also included is the Internal Consultant’s Web of Change—a tool that will help individuals recognize their strengths and their areas that need improvement. This practical resource does more than start internal consultants on the road to improvement, it accompanies them on the journey! Upper management looking to understand internal consulting, middle tier reliability and maintenance management, and those who hold “special projects” positions will find this reference extremely useful.

Features

• Written by a professional who “been there, done that” type of work as opposed to someone who has not lived in the organization as an internal consultant.
• Addresses 12 elements of internal consulting—those who are internal consultants can learn from this and improve their performance.
• Presents the internal consultant business case so companies can justify this position.
• Features the Web of Internal Consultant Change—a web (radar) diagram listing the 12 elements of the internal consultant and allowing readers to take a survey which will identify their strong areas, as well as areas for improvement.  

This unique handbook provides total coverage of issues related to countersinking and chamfering holes, including history of their use, design reasons, and basic cutter design. It features “how-to-use” details of the most used tools and techniques and complete information on the subject of countersinking holes of any size, including those over 10 inches in diameter. Its detailed approach to illustrating over 100 different tools designs is unparalleled in technical literature and is sure to be found useful by manufacturing engineers, shop foremen, and experienced users.

Features

• Provides discussions of all cutter material variations and options, feeds, speeds and coolants, tool holders, and applications--including plastics, metals, wood, composites, ceramics, glass, and dental materials.
• Discusses side effects of countersinking, including stress risers.
• Includes optimum applications for specific tool use, gaging countersinks, economics, pressworking countersinks, non-traditional countersinking methods, and references to standards and other published works.
• Contains case histories, practical tips, and information to make process selection easier.

• Provides complete detailed solutions to carefully selected exercises that reinforce the text, making it ideal an ideal self-study guide.
• Written in a chatty, user-friendly manner that will help motivate the reader. 
• For those who might need it, an optional introductory refresher chapter covering indices, fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios is offered.
• Contains calculator and mathematical software examples and exercises. 

Features

• Includes designed plans instructors can use to teach students all facets of the welding environment in a fun and challenging way.
• All 14 projects were developed because students wanted to build them. A parts list included with each project allows students and instructors to easily complete a cost estimate.
• The book starts with projects on beginning fabrication, teaching students how to measure, identify types of steel, use a scribe, a square, plasma and cutting torches.
• During the welding process students experience real-life situations where they must tack up a project, check for square, and ensure part size is exact so that joints are not too wide to weld.
• Some projects are designed for specific welding applications but can be easily changed to fit all the welding processes including MIG, TIG, AC/DC, and Oxy/Acetylene welding.

The use of computers for engineering design, and in CNC for manufacturing, has dramatically changed the cam design and manufacturing process. Additionally, cam design and manufacturing have been affected by a significant number of fundamental research results published in recent years. This new edition offers changes which have been made throughout the book to update its information with the latest technology from the engineering literature and from the author's research and that of his students. Beginning at an introductory level and progressing to more advanced topics, this it provides all the information needed to properly design, model, analyze, specify, and manufacture cam-follower systems. It is truly a comprehensive resource that brings together up-to-date cam design technology, correct design and manufacturing procedures, and recent cam research results-all in one volume!  

Additionally, this unique book is accompanied by a 90-day trial demonstration copy of the Professional Version of Dynacam. Written by the author and used worldwide, this program solves the equations described in the book and allows in its fully licensed version the design, dynamic modeling, analysis, and generation of follower center, cam surface, and cutter coordinate data for any cam. It also defines conjugate cams for any application.

Features

• Includes a completely rewritten and updated chapter on splines, along with a discussion of shape-preserving splines as currently used for automotive valve-train cams.
• Features added coverage of multi-degree of freedom models and of followers with deliberate impact events within the chapter on dynamic modeling.
• Covers Globoidal cams in several chapters.
• Provides a definitive solution to the torque compensation cam design problem.
• Program Dynacam is much enhanced and improved and is available at a preferred price to purchasers of the book.

Now in paperback, this book was written for all managers who have been given the difficult task of bringing change to their organizations. It addresses organizational change at the working level. It is a “user's guide” in change management, written by a user, for users. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to know, step by step, how to implement change successfully.

Features

• Draws on the author's wealth of practical experience and emphasizes that the elements of change are interrelated, that they constitute a “Web of Change”: change one element and you must see what the impact will be on the others.
• Identifies and explains eight key elements of change.
• A way to measure change in each element and its affect on the others is presented on paper and through a computer program on an enclosed disk.

• Offers new information on current instrumentation as well as additional appendixes, case histories and practice questions.
• Explains how to use instrumentation to monitor and interpret vibration signature.
• Provides information needed to identify potential problems before they cause machine failure.
• Emphasizes practical matters of developing an intuitive understanding of the nature of vibration, giving the reader the ability to attack any problem with a good chance of success.

Amy Campbell, CMRP  

Overview

Winner of first prize (Gold Award) in the RGVA book competition in Maintenance & Reliability at MARTS/Chicago in 2011.

The first edition of this award-winning book immediately became one of the most widely read texts by maintenance, reliability, operations, and safety professionals. It is also being used at many colleges and universities throughout the world. It has become a standard reference for anyone preparing for maintenance and reliability professional exams. In the time since original publication, this book has become a must-have guide and reference. It helps everyone ensure that their organization’s assets are operating as and when needed and at reasonable cost.

Features

• Features a streamlined flow for easier study and reference.
• Includes self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter.
• One of the first books to discuss asset management related standards, including the new ‘ISO-55000 Asset Management Standards.
• Provides new material on corrosion control, risk management, and operator-driven reliability.
• A separate Workbook (ISBN 9780831134358) has been prepared with the assistance of Christopher Mears.

Ramesh Gulati is currently Asset Management and Reliability Planning Manager with the Aerospace Testing Alliance at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), Arnold AFB, TN. He is responsible for creating a reliability culture across AEDC and for building and designing reliability into new systems. Previously, he held various maintenance, engineering, and management positions at AEDC, Carrier Air Conditioning Corp., True Temper Corp., Bethlehem Steel, and Heavy Engineering Corporation’s Foundry Forge Plant.

Ramesh is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), and a registered Professional Engineer (PE). He holds BSME, MSIE, and MBA degrees, is very active in professional societies and has authored many professional papers. Currently, for SMRP, he serves as Certification Committee chair and was director of Certification and Standards, Best Practices, Body of Knowledge, and a Board member. He also serves as an advisory Board member for the University of Tennessee’s Reliability & Maintenance Center (RMC). He is a member of Association of Maintenance Professionals (AMP) and a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE). Recently, Ramesh served as a U.S. delegate to the ISO/PC251 committee, supporting development of a new Asset Management Standard.

By Terence O'Hanlon, CMRP

Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com, Uptime Magazine

July 2012

I first met Ramesh when we were both volunteering at a Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals executive board meeting. The first thing I noticed was his intensity.

He was intensely interested in contributing what he knew to the best practices being collected by the organization. He was intensely working to connect people who might be able to help each other. He was interested in making sure those around him were not simply passively supportive of a reliability-based maintenance strategy. They had to be fully committed to a reliability-based way of life!

I eventually made it to the Air Force base where Ramesh worked, and I noticed something completely different about the way maintenance was regarded. I could not detect the usual sense of maintenance as a "necessary evil" or a "cost center," even from the base's leadership. Instead, maintenance was viewed as an important enabler of the mission. Reliability was the context and aim of the maintenance program.

Since that day almost ten years ago, I have been privileged to work with Ramesh, who taught me that one can only gain through contributing. I've also learned from his entire team, including a series of leaders over the last decade that represent the best of what America is all about.

There is a common thread I have found from all the best practice programs like the one where Ramesh works. That is the thread of sharing. You would expect best practice organizations to be learning organizations, like knowledge sponges absorbing every bit of beneficial information they can find. Instead, it is almost the exact opposite. These organizations share and teach everything they know and everything they have learned; somehow this contributes to their getting better and improving even more.

Before this book appeared, only those who worked and volunteered with Ramesh or those who heard him at an industry conference, had been touched by his work. With this book, and now this new edition, the wider world will have a chance to benefit from his experience and knowledge.

If you are a maintenance professional, dive in and savor this book. Try not to make too many dog-eared pages because I suggest that you lend it to your boss as soon as you are done with it or, better yet, buy him or her a copy. Then ask your boss to pass it up the line so everyone can start to see the important work done by some of the best people on the planet -- maintenance professionals.

In the second edition, you will benefit from a streamlined flow to allow easier study and reference. In addition there are now "assessment" questions at the end of each chapter to test how well you absorbed the material. This is one of the first books to discuss the asset-management-related standards -- including the new "ISO-55000 Asset Management Standard," which Ramesh has been developing with a global team from 24 nations. Other new material includes corrosion control, risk management and operator-driven reliability.

This award-winning book has become one of the de facto standards for those preparing to sit for maintenance-reliability professional exams. It is also used in college-level courses throughout the world.

If the lights are on as you read this book -- you owe thanks to a maintenance professional.

I know I owe thanks to Ramesh for being a personal and professional mentor for me. I am a much better person as a result of having him as a friend.

Terence O'Hanlon

In any organization, assets are needed to produce products or provide services. An item or asset, as defined here, could be an electronic or mechanical hardware component or device, a software product, or a manufacturing system or process. The objective of performing better maintenance and improving reliability of assets in an organization is to ensure that the assets are available to perform required functions, when needed, in a cost-effective manner. The performance of an asset is based on three factors (see Figure 1.1):

1. Inherent reliability — how it was designed?
2. Operating environment — how it will be operated?
3. Maintenance plan — how it will be maintained?

Usually assets are designed with a certain level of reliability. This designed-in (or built-in) reliability is the result of individual components’ reliability and the way they are configured. This level of reliability is called inherent reliability. We cannot change or improve the reliability of an asset after it has been installed without replacing or modifying it with better and improved components (with the exception of redesigning it).

The second factor, the operating environment of the asset, considers operating conditions under which the asset has to operate along with the operator’s skills. Several studies have indicated that 40% or more failures are the result of operational errors. Organizations need to ensure that operators are appropriately educated and trained in operating these assets without causing operational errors that lead to failures. In fact, operators should be the first line of defense in monitoring the asset’s performance and any abnormal conditions, and in initiating timely corrective actions.

The third factor is a maintenance plan that defines how the asset will be maintained. The objective of a good maintenance plan is to sustain asset reliability and to improve its availability. The plan should include the necessary maintenance and service-type actions needed to detect potential failures before they lead to unscheduled downtime.

So what do best practices have to do with these principles of maintenance and reliability? Throughout the many years of the maintenance and reliability industry, good and bad practices have been identified. These good and bad practices have been briefed at international conferences, discussed in person and over the airwaves, and written in magazines, books, websites, and blogs. The best of these practices are now becoming more accepted and published throughout local, national, and international industries, becoming the benchmarks that companies seek to achieve. Throughout this book, we will be discussing these factors and what best practices can be used to improve asset performance.

• Introduction: What Is a Best Practice?
• Key Terms and Definitions
• What Do Best Practices Have to Do with Maintenance and Reliability?
• Examples of Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarks
• Basic Test on Maintenance and Reliaility Knowledge
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions 
• References and Suggested Readings

Culture and Leadership

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Leadership and Organizational Culture
• Strategic Framework: Vision, Mission, and Goals
• Change Management
• Reliability Culture
• Measures of Performance
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Understanding Maintenance

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Maintenance Approaches
• Maintenance Practices: Others
• Maintenance Management System: CMMS
• Maintenance Quality
• Maintenance Assessment and Improvement
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Work Management: Planning and Scheduling

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Work Flow and Roles
• Work Classification and Prioritization
• Planning Process
• Scheduling Process
• Turnarounds and Shutdowns
• Measures of Performance
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Materials, Parts, and Inventory Management

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Types of Inventory
• Physical Layout and Storage Equipment
• Optimizing Tools and Techniques
• Measures of Performance
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Measuring and Designing for Reliability and Maintainability

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Defining and Measuring Reliability and Other Terms
• Designing and Building for Maintenance and Reliability
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Operator Driven Reliability

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• The Role of Operations
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Workplace Organization: 5S
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Measures of Performance
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Maintenance Optimization

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Understanding Failures and Maintenance Strategies
• Maintenance Strategy — RCM
• Maintenance Strategy — CBM
• Other Maintenance Strategiess
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Managing Performance

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Identifying Performance Measures
• Data Collection and Data Quality
• Benchmarking and Benchmarks
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Workforce Management

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Employee Life Cycle
• Understanding the Generation Gap
• Communication Skills
• People Development
• Resource Management and Organization Structure
• Measures of Performance
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Maintenance Analysis and Improvement Tools

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Maintenance Root Cause Analysis Tool
• Six Sigma and Quality Maintenance Tools
• Lean Maintenance Tools
• Other Analysis and Improvement Tools
• Summary 11.8 Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Current Trends and Practices

• Introduction
• Key Terms and Definitions
• Energy Management, Sustainability, and the Green Initiative
• Personnel, Facility, and Arc Flash Safety
• Risk Management
• Corrosion Control
• Systems Engineering and Configuration Management
• Standards and Standardization
• Summary
• Self Assessment Questions
• References and Suggested Reading

Appendix for Chapter 1

• Best Practices Q–A: Answer Key and Explanation

Index

Engineers and reliability professionals are increasingly being held accountable for materials and spare parts inventory management and in response they need to gain a better understanding of materials and spare parts inventory management principles and practices. This practical book delivers just that.   

This new edition will help you get the right parts, in the right place, at the right time, for the right reason. Fully revised, it provides specific coverage of the issues faced in, and requirements for, managing engineering materials and spare parts and what to do to improve your results. It includes 29 exclusive examples and real life case studies to demonstrate the application of the concepts and ideas so that you will easy and quickly understand how to implement them. What's more it will show you: What to do to truly optimize your inventory holdings, Why inventory levels are almost always too high, How to identifying the factors that have greatest impact on your inventory levels, When to apply the 7 Actions for Inventory Reduction, Where to focus your efforts for greatest effect, and Who to involve in taking action. The concepts, ideas, tools, and processes in this book have helped many companies achieve and sustain results that other inventory tools and approaches just could not match. And it is sure to help you achieve true inventory optimization as well!

Features

The second edition includes…

• A new chapter on The Mechanics of Inventory Management, a pragmatic review of the management of inventory including… Introducing the Materials and Inventory Management Cycle, Comparing theoretical and actual inventory outcomes, Discussion on normal and Poisson distribution models, How to determine the re order point, How to determine the re order quantity, and Commentary on Monte Carlo simulation.
• An expanded chapter on the financial impact of inventory, including a discussion of the key reports that need to be understood.
• Chapters on the influence of policies, procedures, and people.
• Additional discussion on issues faced and how to address them.
• An expansion of the central process discussed in the first edition to a more comprehensive review process…Inventory Process™ Optimization.
• An expanded section on executing an inventory review program.
• A closing 'where to from here' chapter.
• 57 figures and diagrams - 30 of them new and the others all revised and updated and six new tables (with 8 in total).
• Eight new checklists - specifically included as a new tool for the reader and is the result of direct reader requests.
• An expanded glossary.

This is the right book for users if they liked the author’s “Beginning AutoCAD” workbook, or they’re looking for a clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text, or they want to learn more about AutoCAD such as Xref, Attributes, and 3D solids. Totally updated for AutoCAD 2015 and 2015 LT, it offers several new and improved features. All exercises print easily on a standard 8 ½” x 11” printer. For use with the PC version of AutoCAD 2015 only.

NEW FEATURES

• The ability to capture, embed and plot maps with Geographic Location

• Dark color interface which includes the Ribbon, Status Bar and Palettes. This contrasts with the dark model space and reduces eye strain.

IMPROVED FEATURES

• Enhanced Status Bar giving greater control on the tools you want displayed.

• Reorganized View Ribbon making it easier to control the visibility of the UCS Icon, Navigation Bar, ViewCube and Layout Tabs.

• Improved graphics with Line Smoothing.

This text presents a thorough introduction to SolidWorks for anyone with little or no prior experience with this software.  It can be used in virtually any educational setting – from 4-year engineering schools to vo/tech colleges and industrial training centers – and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use.  Unlike other books of its kind, it begins at a very basic level and ends with coverage of advanced topics.  It’s a perfect choice for anyone interested in learning SolidWorks quickly and effectively.   

Features

• New to this edition: Chapter 16 on the FloXpress Analysis Wizard; Chapter 17, Introduction to Equations; Additional Practice Problems.
• Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions complemented by numerous illustrations.
• Commands are highlighted in bold for more efficient reading and review.
• Includes hundreds of graphic illustrations that enhance visual learning.
• Most chapters are self-contained, providing added flexibility in using this book.

None of the few Design for Reliability (DFR) books currently available addresses the process from the owner’s (or buyer’s) perspective. Instead, they approach DFR strictly from the seller’s (or manufacturer’s) viewpoint. As a result, few assets are designed and developed with the intent to meet the future owner’s specific needs for reliability, availability, and maintainability over the life of the asset. In this groundbreaking new book, Dan Daley intends to correct the imbalance in how DFR is often implemented by providing owners with the tools they need to ensure that their requirements - not the seller’s — are followed in developing new assets.

This book will be an invaluable guide to everyone involved in the design, development, or purchase of new assets. It will help owners take the necessary steps to get what they really need, and it will help sellers “deliver the goods” that their customers — the owners — actually want.

Features

• Explains how to properly integrate DFR activities with conventional design activities.
• Provides a simple system to ensure DFR activities are completed on time.
• Provides spreadsheets and forms needed to portray design results in a clear and usable format.
• Includes the tables and forms needed to support the design processes and procedures presented in each chapter.
• Includes appendices that provide an example specification that owners can modify when procuring a new asset and example tables useful in assessing how well the DFR process has met the owner’s needs.

• Guides hobbyists in selecting the proper tools for working with metal, including tips for buying and using bench-top lathes, mills and drill presses. The book also covers the various cutting components used on these tools.
•  Provides suggestions for shop layout, including space requirements, lighting, ventilation, and safety.
• Guides the reader through the use of specialty tools used for measuring and handling small metal parts.

• Focuses on the main compliance programs—OSHA, Process Safety Management, EPA, FDA and ISO-9000.
• Provides numerous examples to highlight the complexity of the standards and the integration that must occur between the standards and maintenance to insure compliance.  
• Details the penalties that have been assessed companies who have not maintained compliance, allowing a company to understand the impact of non-compliance with the standards.
• A logical organization makes it easy to find regulatory compliance programs by: a topical outline (by regulation), an impact outline (how they affect maintenance) and a violations section that allows companies to see the cost of non-compliance.

• Includes English and Metric systems.
• Covers new methods of producing blanks, such as waterjet cutting and laser cutting.
• Contains a glossary of terms for the first time.
• Illustrates each step in pictorial view and as a portion of an engineering drawing.
• Offers a completely revised chapter on presses and quick die-changing systems and includes the addition of “Quick Die Change Systems".

No previous works have focused on the topic of inventory reduction and optimization to the extent that this one does. Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology™ by Philip Slater covers the whole part’s life cycle, from initial purchase to final disposal, and addresses issues throughout, including maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). The author, Phillip Slater, was described in a recent podcast as “truly one of the leaders in the MRO information segment.”

Sparesology is a term coined by Slater to describe the discipline of optimizing the physical, financial, and human resource management processes of spare parts inventory management. Sparesology is much more than just inventory optimization. It involves an understanding of the complete “ecosystem,” within which the spare parts inventory is managed, and seeks to ensure that all of the factors influencing this management work together to achieve an organization’s goals.

“It’s like Phillip is coaching you one-on-one. He addresses the full life cycle of spares, clearly shows the unique nature of spare parts management, and provides practical guidance on critical policies and best practices. Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® belongs on the shelf of every spare parts organization. I definitely would recommend it to my clients and students.

Phillip Slater’s latest book continues his unique and engaging writing style. He draws on his decades of experience in spare parts management and delivers a book that is pleasantly conversational, as if I am sitting across the table from him, and he is coaching me one-on-one. This book is also unique as it addresses the full life cycle of spares, from initial requirements forecasting through to use and final disposal.
            The author clearly shows the unique nature of spare parts management versus other types of inventory — distinctions that require different considerations in planning and control. In easy to understand terms, he dispels the myths associated with spares and provides practical guidance on critical spare parts policies and best practices that favorably impact the bottom line. 
            Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® is practitioner oriented and belongs on the shelf in every spare parts organization. I definitely would recommend it to my clients and students."

—Dr. A. Patricia Murrin, A.P. Murrin and Associates; Supply Chain Management Department Chair, The National Graduate School of Quality Management; Adjunct Faculty, Walden University; Adjunct Faculty, Northwood University. You can find her on LinkedIn.

“Slater sticks with proven systems and best practices born out of real-world experience. As timely as it is useful, Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® is a ‘dirt under the nails’ guide that translates just as well in the boardroom as in the parts storage cribs.

Many organizations don’t understand the need to manage spare parts until something affects the bottom line, then it is 'all hands on deck.' That is where Phillip Slater’s new book comes in. As timely as it is useful, Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® is the natural addition to the author’s earlier publications.
            Slater has a gift for making unfamiliar subjects seem less intimidating. He sticks with proven systems and best practices born out of real-world experience. Such is the case with this latest book, wherein he lays out the need for properly addressing industrial spare parts and the steps to thoughtfully controlling the processes and procedures to manage them. He outlines four key-aspects to his approach. Each one is equally important and applicable to any size organization in any industry.
            You will find, as I did, that Slater tackles the big problems with attention to detail, without getting into the mind-numbing minutia of how things could be done. Along with the high-level concepts, he gives specific guidance for addressing each aspect of spare parts management. He effectively empowers the reader to dismiss the perception of the need for 'just in case' spare parts.
            Without glossing over anything, he brings the reader to an understanding of not only what to do, but also 'why' we do these things. Leaving buzzwords and ethereal concepts aside, this is a 'dirt under the nails' guide that translates just as well in the boardroom as in the parts storage cribs."

—Russ Thompson, M3 ERP Functional Consultant, Avaap USA (www.avaap.com). You can find him on LinkedIn.

“With a clear, easy to read style, this book provides a whole vision for the spare parts management problem, applying engineering questioning and avoiding the most widely accepted methods to obtain the best solution, measured financially, for every spare parts inventory situation. Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® is a great follow up to Slater's previous books.

With a clear, easy to read, style, Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® charts the key lessons and synthesizes the key ideas to consider for every part of a spare parts optimization process. The book provides best practices, plus charts and matrices that are valuable aids and transform the book into a road map. The author insists that the lack of a consistent spare parts policy is a major problem in most companies and proposes a practical approach, including financial considerations, and how to use a language that your CEO will understand.
            This book covers all phases of the spare parts management life cycle, from the creation of the stock to the disposal of non-used parts. It provides a whole vision for the spare parts management problem to help analyze pros and cons, and understand the consequences of every decision. A highlight is the part about obsolescence and disposal, a phase that is not usually analyzed.
            Based on my experience, the main problem with most spare parts management is the use of ad hoc and emotional principles that are unable to ensure the right results. Slater proposes applying engineering questioning and avoiding the most widely accepted methods to obtain the best solution, measured financially, for every spare parts inventory situation. This is a great follow up to his previous books."

—Jorge Asiain, Senior Consultant AlterEvo (www.alterevo.es); Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Europea. You can find him on LinkedIn.

“Phillip Slater is a true expert who brings the issues involved in spare parts inventory management to the public attention constantly. A complete, clear, well supported, and practically applicable guide, Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® is a must-read for those who decide on spare parts inventories. 

The general problem with spare parts inventory management is that it is regarded and thus approached as just another 'general' inventory challenge. And while the market is full of inventory management professionals, training, courses, and so on, only a few address the complexities that make spare parts inventory management a totally different reality. Among these, Phillip Slater is a true expert who brings the issues involved in spare parts inventory management to the public attention constantly.
            His newest book is a complete, clear, well supported, and practically applicable guide. Spanning the different disciplines in a company, including engineering, planning, procurement, and finance, it focuses on minimizing downtime and cost.
            I really like the numerous lists of questions that help practitioners decide which and how many spare parts to stock. For instance, the chapter on inventory optimization presents five questions for examining  the requirements for spare parts, the consequences of non-availability, and the predictability of demand. The answers help in determining stock-holding requirements as well as contingency needs. Another useful section, 'The Seven Actions for Inventory Reduction,' provides solutions for reducing inventories without compromising parts availability.
            Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology® is a must-read for those who decide on spare parts inventories." 

—Jürgen Donders, Partner, Gordian Logistic Experts, www.gordian.nl.

• Contains in-depth "insight" chapters that explore key principles of the strategy with detailed explanations, examples, anecdotes, graphics, and comments by business leaders experienced in each area.
• Addresses the use of lean production principles and tools in service organizations and small companies.
• Provides actual case histories of successful implementation in a variety of organizations.
• Includes explanatory graphics and charts, including key steps and measurements for use in implementation.
• Features an extensive glossary and additional recommended reading.

"There needs to be a workshop that is built around this book... providing a logical approach to implantation within a business context.  This workbook coupled with general knowledge training connects the dots."  

• Addresses troubleshooting and repair actions on residential heating equipment and controls. 
• Detailed procedures cover visual observations and inspection of impending equipment failure as well as necessary preventive maintenance actions.
• Includes icons throughout with maintenance tips and forensic observations.
• Presents visual equipment inspection observations as well as step-by-step procedures for preventive maintenance, along with numerous photographs of failed equipment detailing the consequences of inadequate preventive maintenance.
• An affiliated website (www.certuseheatingsystems.com) contains supporting video footage of demonstrations of failed equipment and proper/improper maintenance procedures. Color photographs of illustrations in the book will also be available on the website.

Unlike any other book, this practical and proven guide will provide you with a foundation for determining causes and remedies for warpage in titanium alloy part fabrication. It discusses methods for straightening titanium alloy and describes criterion for selecting the most appropriate straightening process. You’ll never have to fight distortion or throw away warped titanium parts again!  

• Discusses in detail the causes of warpage of titanium alloy airframe parts.
• Provides proven steps that can be taken to prevent warpage.
• Offers recipes for straightening titanium parts—straightening in a gas furnace, straightening in an electric furnace, straightening in a vacuum furnace, straightening cold, straightening by shot peening, straightening using blacksmithing techniques.

Written from a mathematical standpoint accessible to students, teachers, and professionals studying or practicing in engineering, mathematics, or physics, the new second edition is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and application of transformations. Presenting the more abstract foundation material in the first three chapters, Geometric Transformations in 3D Modeling reduces the clutter of theoretical derivation and development in the remainder of the text and introduces the operational and more application-oriented tools and concepts as the need arises. It assumes the reader has already taken analytic geometry and first-year calculus and has a working knowledge of basic matrix and vector algebra. This self-contained resource is sure to appeal to those working in 3D modeling, geometric modeling, computer graphics, animation, robotics, and kinematics.  

Features

• Explores and develops the subject in much greater breadth and depth than other books, offering readers a better understanding of transformation theory, the role of invariants, the uses of various notation systems, and the relations between transformations.
• Describes how geometric objects may change position, orientation, or even shape when subjected to mathematical operations, while properties characterizing their geometric identity and integrity remain unchanged.
• Presents eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and tensors in a way that makes it easier for readers to understand.
• Contains revised and improved figures, with many in color to highlight important features.
• Provides exercises throughout nearly all of the chapters whose answers are found at the end of the book.

• Offers many practical do’s and don’ts while covering all the popular Fanuc control systems exclusively.
• Provides the basis for exploring in great depth the extremely wide and rich
  field of programming tools that macros are. 
• Numerous examples and sample programs are used throughout that serve as practical applications of the techniques presented and as the basis of ready-to-run macro programs. 
• Includes a CD containing all of the sample programs.

1. Familiarize
2. Find Socrates
3. Be the Exam
4. Practice Exam
5. Explore

CNC Trade Secrets is from the author of the bestselling and universally praisedMachine Shop Trade Secrets. This new manual does for CNC machining what the first book did for conventional machining.

With this guide to proven CNC machine shop practices, you will be producing machine parts faster, with fewer errors, and with less labor. You’ll discover that you don’t have to know “everything there is to know” to make parts on CNC machines - just as, for example, you don’t have to know everything about Microsoft Word to write a letter. Whether you are a shop owner, machinist, designer, or hobbyist, you will find yourself referring to this manual again and again.   

Smart Inventory Solutions is the result of the author’s time spent working with clients and studying the issues people face in trying to achieve their inventory reduction.This landmark manual shows you the seven Actions for Inventory Reduction so you can easily, efficiently and sustainably achieve your inventory reduction, free up cash, and reduce your costs without risk and impact on your capability. Additionally, it shows you the author’s self-developed Inventory cash release process™ to follow, the mistakes to avoid and a sure fire approach that minimizes your workload. In fact you'll learn how to generate better results for these types of inventory.

• Shows you how to eliminate 100% excess of inventory and reduce inventory related working capital by up to 40%. 
• Illustrates how to reduce your ongoing inventory management costs. 
• Helps you develop the skills of your team to enable ongoing inventory management and independence. 
• Provides 20 exclusive case studies and real life examples. 
• Can be applied to all ‘bought in’ inventories such as parts and components, finished goods, OEM spares, MRO inventory, engineering spares, and industrial supplies. 
• Includes a data collection guide.  

• Shows you how to eliminate 100% excess of inventory and reduce inventory related working capital by up to 40%.
• Illustrates how to reduce your ongoing inventory management costs.
• Helps you develop the skills of your team to enable ongoing inventory management and independence.
• Provides 20 exclusive case studies and real life examples.
• Can be applied to all ‘bought in’ inventories such as parts and components, finished goods, OEM spares, MRO inventory, engineering spares, and industrial supplies.
• Includes a data collection guide.

• An Introduction to the Inventory Cash ReleaseTM Process
• Why ‘Less Is More’
• 5 Myths of Inventory Reduction
• The Issues That Drive Excess Inventory
• Maximum Results, Minimum Effort
• 7 Actions For Inventory Reduction
• Managing Non Pareto and New Inventory
• Your Opportunities and Next Actions
• Appendix A: Inventory Reduction Glossary
• Appendix B: Data Collection Guide

As the only comprehensive text focusing on metal shaping processes, which are still the most widely used processes in the manufacture of products and structures, Metal Shaping Processes carefully presents the fundamentals of metal shaping processes with their relevant applications. The treatment of the subject matter is adequately descriptive for those unfamiliar with the various processes and yet is sufficiently analytical for an introductory academic course in manufacturing. The text, as well as the numerous formulas and illustrations in each chapter, clearly show that shaping processes, as a part of manufacturing engineering, are a complex and interdisciplinary subject. The topics are organized and presented in such a manner that they motivate and challenge students to present technically and economically viable solutions to a wide variety of questions and problems, including product design. It is the perfect textbook for students in mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering programs at both the Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree programs, as well a valuable reference for manufacturing engineers (those who design, execute and maintain the equipment and tools); process engineers (those who plan and engineer the manufacturing steps, equipment, and tooling needed in production); manufacturing managers and supervisors; product design engineers; and maintenance and reliability managers and technicians.  

Features

• Each chapter begins with a brief highlighted outline of the topics to be described.
• Carefully presents the fundamentals of the particular metal-shaping process with its relevant applications within each chapter, so that the student and teacher can clearly assess the capabilities, limitation, and potentials of the process and its competitive aspects.
• Features sections on product design considerations, which present guidelines on design for manufacturing in many of the chapters.
• Offers practical, understandable explanations, even for complex processes.
• Includes text entries that are coded as in an outline, with these numerical designations carried over the 320 related illustrations for easy cross-referencing.
• Provides a dual (ISO and USA) unit system.
• Contains end-of-chapter Review Questions.
• Includes a chapter on sheet metalworking covering cutting processes; bending process; tubes and pipe bending; deep drawing processes; other sheet metal forming process (stretch forming, spinning, rubber forming, and superplatic forming and diffusion bonding).
• Provides a useful die classification with 15 illustrations and description; presses for sheet metalworking; and high energy-rate forming processes.
• A chapter on nontraditional manufacturing process discusses such important processes as mechanical energy processes (ultrasonic machining, water jet cutting); electrochemical machining processes (electrochemical machining, electrochemical grinding); thermal energy processes (electric discharge processes, laser beam machining, electron beam machining); and chemical processes (chemical milling).

• Features a tried and tested, practical 17-step “how to” Problem Solving and Process Management methodology that can be used in any business environment.
• Includes numerous figures and examples of charts and documents used at each step of the process.
• References standard forms, tools, and training materials in the Appendix.
• Addresses how to engage the people who are using, creating, and improving the management process.
• Explains the steps in creating a process management methodology and presents the process management body of knowledge without the “fad” or spin.
• Highlights the importance of good process management to corporate business transformation. 

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X8 Lathe for anyone with little or no prior experience with the software. It can be used in virtually any educational setting -- from four-year engineering schools to community colleges and voc/tech schools to industrial training centers -- and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual. The award-winning author has carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and has used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. He has also provided exercises from the text for student practice.   

• Emphasizes student-friendly visual displays in place of long explanations and definitions.
• Uses numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with visual displays.
• Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.
• Covers all aspects of using Mastercam X8 to machine various types of parts and contains a process plan describing the machining operations to be carried out to machine each part.
• Contains student exercises at the end of each chapter
• The enclosed CD contains the complete Mastercam X8 Demo, as well as student practice exercises from the book.

The authors are recipients of the prestigious M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award, presented by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in recognition of the year’s most outstanding manufacturing-related textbook. They received this award for their Introduction to Computer Numerical Control (Prentice Hall).    

• Begins each section with a new Section opener collage and includes an introduction, learning objectives, key terms summary, and knowledge review questions.
• Highlights safety precautions throughout, making them stand out from the text and more visible.
• Covers 14 key operations, in various sections, using Visutext format where each major step of an operation is illustrated, labeled and explained with minimum text.
• Includes the latest direct ironmaking and direct steelmaking processes and mini mills.
• Contains five Modern Technology overviews for some sections that give a brief history of the topic and a look at advanced and future developments.
• Introduces conventional/programmable lathes, vertical mills, and surface grinders, making the reader aware of the step between conventional and CNC machines.
• Lists at the start of each programming exercise any codes being used for the first time and their function.  
• Contains a comprehensive machine tool glossary.
• Offers an overview of Virtual Reality NC.
• Shows students—in a careers section—the many exciting and rewarding opportunities available in metalworking and manufacturing.

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X7 Mill for students with little or no prior experience. It can be used in virtually any educational setting -- from four-year engineering schools to community colleges and voc/tech schools to industrial training centers -- and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual. The award-winning authors have carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and have used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. Two enclosed CDs contain Mastercam X7 Demo and also include examples and exercises from the text for student practice.

• Emphasizes student-friendly graphical displays in place of long explanations and definitions.
• Includes an overview of the process of generating a word address program.
• Presents numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with graphical displays.
• Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.
• Contains exercises at the end of each chapter.
• Features a process plan for many machining exercises to indicate the machining operations to be performed and the tools to be used.
• All operations now done in Windows 7.
• Includes the new Verifier.
• Includes the new Code Expert.
• Features editing solid models imported from other CAD packages such as SolidWorks.

• Includes new chapters on symmetry, limit and continuity, constructive solid geometry, and the Bezier curve.
• Provides many new figures and exercises.  
• Contains an annotated suggested reading list with exercises and answers in each chapter.
• Appeals to both academics and professionals.
• Offers a new solutions manual for instructors.

• Provides step-by-step instructions along with numerous illustrations.
• Commands are shown in bold for those who would rather not read every word of instruction.
• Includes graphic illustration for each step for those who would rather learn visually.
• Contains small notes on most illustrations to further clarify instructions

Machining is one of the most important manufacturing processes, which remove unwanted material in the form of chips from a workpiece. Material removal operations are among the most expensive; in the U.S. alone, more than $100 billion were spent on machining in 1999. These high costs put tremendous economic pressures on production managers and engineers as they struggle to find ways to increase productivity.

Machining recommendations provided in this book cover turning since it allows removing more material per unit of time and consuming more power at the roughing operations than end milling, boring or drilling. Machining recommendations relate to cutting speeds, feed rates, and depth of cuts. Such recommendations depend on the workpiece material properties and the cutting tool material. Workpiece materials described in this book are the most commonly used grades of carbon, alloy, stainless, tool, and maraging steels. Cutting tool materials are cemented carbides, cermets, and ceramics.

Fleet Purchasing and Maintenance is a concise, easy to understand guide on vehicle purchasing and fleet maintenance for the benefit of business and maintenance managers at all levels, plus students and academics. Not a textbook full of formulas but a guide containing both detail and insights for the practicing fleet and financial manager.

The book first covers all aspects of the vehicle and fleet purchasing process from the perspective of the purchaser. It then discusses, in detail, the process of how to approach a fleet purchase once the decision is made. The book then leads into the operations of the fleets, their maintenance systems, efficiencies, inefficiencies, their overall evaluation, and finally, a discussion of maintenance backlog.

A comprehensive, yet easy-to-use “memory jog” for experienced machinists, as well as a reference for programmers and anyone else with an interest in machining processes.

Features

• Includes expanded chapters on numerical control and computerized operations.
• Contains additional speeds and feeds tables, general troubleshooting concepts, and a basic review of relevant computer terms and applications.
• Emphasizes the hands-on concept of developing and refining skills, along with knowledge of metals and machining processes by means of application.
• Offers tips on checking material hardness, ensuring that temperature variations won't put parts out of tolerance.
• Reviews and presents metals and heat-treating with emphasis on aspects most important to machining.
• Presents checklists containing considerations involved, the steps and functions required, and the most appropriate sequences.
• Includes a checklist of stock and the steps involved, along with a review of both basic machining steps and the axes and other factors pertinent to N/C control and operation needed to complete the program.

Features

• Bell and Gossett ESP-PLUS software provides calculations for the selection of equipment such as hydraulic pumps, heat exchangers, and hydronic and steam system components. It also helps select commercially available equipment and components.
• Trane Load 700 heating and cooling load calculation software allows the user to use detailed geometric, weather and exposure parameters to accurately estimate load during the heating and cooling cycles.
• Primarily uses U.S. customary units but also uses both SI and U.S. units in some cases.

Reliability is dependent upon shared understanding and beliefs. Managers at all levels must understand how their decisions and directions often impact adversely the ability of their organization to achieve and perpetuate Reliability…thereby undermining realization of broad business objectives.

This book identifies and explores fifteen cultural obstacles commonly encountered by most organizations in their pursuit of World-Class Reliability. The intent is to provide senior management with a wake-up call. They must address the identified obstacles the people they have charged with pursuit of reliability (middle managers, engineers and functional specialists) can be successful. Otherwise, senior management is its' own worst enemy. It is a must-read for Senior Managers at all levels (Corporate to Plant and within Plant at Departmental levels).

Features

• Examines the larger issues (culture, leadership, commitment, consistency) that functionaries cannot overcome without strong senior management involvement.
• Focuses on the managerial leadership, cultural change, organization-wide commitment, and perseverance required to transform the operational environment from reactive to proactive.
• Uses illustrations to visually convey Principles and Concepts of Maintenance/Reliability Excellence.
• Includes appendices that provide generic tools and plans used to drive the essential change.   

• Provides clear and unbiased recommendations, descriptions, and the operative aspects of several major welding processes.
• Enhances management's ability to make informed decisions on purchasing, supervision and implementation of a variety of manual welding processes.
• Allows trainers to systematically present welding theory and practice to the student and to customize the instruction for any specific productive objective.
• Does not overload students with large amounts of data and theoretical material that do not directly and immediately lead to productive work and proper job performance.

• The analysis of the structure of the differential equation of motion, as well as the analysis of the components that constitute this equation presented in the Chapter 1 allow readers to understand the principles of composing the differential equation of motion for actual engineering systems.
• Presents the straightforward universal methodology of solving linear differential equations of motion based on the Laplace transform.
• The table of Laplace Transform pairs presented in the Chapter 1 is based on reviewing numerous related analytical sources and represents a comprehensive source containing sufficient information for solving the differential equations of motion for common engineering systems.
• Helps determine the number of possible common engineering problems based on the analysis of the structure of the differential equation of motion, as well as on the realistic resisting and active loading factors that constitute the differential equation of motion.
• Each paragraph represents a standalone description.  There is no need to look for notations or analytical techniques throughout the book. The book contains all required supplemental information for solving the problems. 

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X5 Mill for students with little or no prior experience. It can be used in virtually any educational setting -- from four-year engineering schools to community colleges and voc/tech schools to industrial training centers -- and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual. The award-winning authors have carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and have used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. Two enclosed CDs contain Mastercam X5 Demo and also include examples and exercises from the text for student practice.  

Features

• Emphasizes student-friendly graphical displays in place of long explanations and definitions.
• Includes an overview of the process of generating a word address program.
• Presents numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with graphical displays.
• Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.
• Contains exercises at the end of each chapter.
• Features a process plan for many machining exercises to indicate the machining operations to be performed and the tools to be used
• Contains a new chapter on Creating 2D Solid Models by extrusion, revolving and Boolean Operations.
• Contains new material on editing solids and building a history tree for imported solids.
• Contains a chapter on Executing 2D Milling Operations on Solid Models.
• Contains new material on creating a user defined tool plane and machining on the plane.
• Contains a new chapter on File tracking and Change Recognition.
• Includes an in-depth presentation of how to customize Mastercam X5 for user applications in the appendix.

Overview 

Guide to Hard Milling and High Speed Machining is a continuation of author's first book, Hard Milling & High Speed Machining: Tools of Change. The intial book featured different cutters developed for hard milling and high speed machining.  

In this current guide, you will find yet more variables associated with the process. In Guide to Hard Milling and High Speed Machining, six machine manufacturers are covered in the first six chapters: Mikron, Okuma, Yasda, Roku Roku, Johnford and Moore. Each chapter explains the different approaches to building machines for this process.

Also covered are two holder manufacturers, Heartech Precision and Big Kaiser, and one probe and laser manufacturer, Blum. Furthermore the author includes some of his most recent development work done on hard-to-machine materials and new cutters on the market today.

It is certain that when you read this book you will become more aware of the people and companies involved in developing their products for this process. By working with these companies, you will learn what it takes to implement hard milling and high speed machining into your shop.

The NTMA has the honor of working with some very talented and knowledgeable individuals, organizations, and institutions. A shining star among these partners is Dale Mickelson. Dale’s knowledge of all the machining variables, in combination with his database of real world test results, enables his clients to develop the high speed machining and hard milling processes required to be competitive in today’s business climate. By helping his clients decrease cycle time and tooling costs, and increase machine tool utilization, he has helped our members realize tremendous improvements in their operations.--Kevin King, Manufacturing Technology Director National Tooling & Machining Association

• Focuses heavily on the fields of engineering, the career opportunities in each, and the skills needed once  students are on the job.
• Designed for the introductory high school and college freshman-level course on careers in Engineering.
• There are several appendices, which include sample reports, presentations, test plans, and other examples  of skills employees will use on the job.

• Includes over 760 illustrations and 70 tables in two volumes.
• Offers sections on numerical control; grinding wheels (that includes the newest abrasive materials); single point cutting tools and tool wear; basic drilling machine setups; and formulas for estimating the power required for planing.  
• Provides detailed discussions on methods of setting up the workpiece on milling machines, horizontal boring machines, planers and shapers.  

• Brings together the issues of maintenance planning, project management, logistics, contracting, and accounting for shutdowns.
• Includes hundreds of shutdown ideas gleaned from experts worldwide.
• Contains procedures and strategies that will improve your current shutdown planning and execution.
• Offers examples to illustrate the major points.

As a concise yet thorough introduction to the topic, this new edition of Welding Essentials makes welding easy for beginners and is a handy reference for professionals. Its unique, comprehensive question-and-answer format will allow readers to quickly find what they are looking for and fully understand it. Eliminating non-essential items to prevent overloading readers, Welding Essentials addresses safety hazards and required precautions in detail and provides solutions to common problems for each process. Additionally, this valuable reference carefully explains step-by-step setup and shutdown procedures, along with why equipment grounding and GFI's are needed and the way in which they work.

Features

• Welding tip sizes for differing metal thickness, as well as proper pressure settings for those tips and how to determine what the size is as related the non-standard numbering systems used by manufacturers.   
• New and improved drawings throughout.
• Discussions on Carbon Arc Cutting with air, Plasma Arc Cutting, and Laser Cutting.
• More thorough information related to the proper sizing of oxy-fuel cutting tips and pressure charts, and bore drill sizes for the various tips.
• More thorough explanation of common welding elements.
• New information on the wire feeding process and more in-depth information related to the use of the tungsten electrodes.
• Friction stir welding process.

Books on design of pipelines, and equipment such as pumps and compressors are available but almost none on the piping that carries fluid to and fro. This practical, no-frills book offers complete coverage of piping practices and maintenance all in one place. Written by a professional with 35 years of hands-on knowledge and experience in pipeline building, operating, and maintenance, this manual is designed to be kept at the ready, on the shop floor. Maintenance engineers and managers will wonder how they've survived so long without it!

Features

• Features practical insight and valuable notes.
• Uses charts and spec sheets wherever necessary instead of calculations and formulas.
• Provides problems, precautions, and troubleshooting tips.
• Extensive use of photos enables users to understand what they need to know.