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• 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.

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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.