Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

An encyclopaedic guide to production techniques and materials for product and industrial designers, engineers, and architects.

Today’s product designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. They have to be knowledgeable about a vast repertoire of processes, ranging from what used to be known as traditional “crafts” to the latest technology, to enable their designs to be manufactured effectively and efficiently. Information on the internet about such processes is often unreliable, and search engines do not usefully organize material for designers.

This fundamental new resource explores innovative production techniques and materials that are having an impact on the design industry worldwide. Organized into four easily referenced parts—Forming, Cutting, Joining, and Finishing—over seventy manufacturing processes are explained in depth with full technical descriptions; analyses of the typical applications, design opportunities, and considerations each process offers; and information on cost, speed, and environmental impact. The accompanying step-by-step case studies look at a product or component being manufactured at a leading international supplier.

A directory of more than fifty materials includes a detailed technical profile, images of typical applications and finishes, and an overview of each material’s design characteristics. With some 1,200 color photographs and technical illustrations, specially commissioned for this book, this is the definitive reference for product designers, 3D designers, engineers, and architects who need a convenient, highly accessible, and practical reference.

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Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals Reviews

Review by Babalis Athanassios:

As an industrial designer and a professor of ID at a Furniture Design college, I am very pleased with this book. It is probably the best book of its kind, so far, covering most processes and describing them in the most excellent manner (with nice diagrams, case studies etc). I would love to see bigger pictures in the next edition. This can be used as a great reference textbook! A big “thank you” to Rob Thomson and the publishers!

Review by Waldemar Drozdek:

It is an excellent book on manufacturing processes and materials. Not overbearingly technical, just the right thing for designers. A step in the right direction, like Ashby and Johnson’s book Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design

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Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials (5th Edition)

For undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Industrial, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering Programs. For graduate courses in Manufacturing Science and Engineering. This comprehensive, up-to-date text has balanced coverage of the fundamentals of materials and processes, its analytical approaches, and its applications in manufacturing engineering. Students using this text will be able to properly assess the capabilities, limitations, and potential of manufacturing processes and their competitive aspects.

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Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials (5th Edition) Reviews

Review by cmpst52:

The emphasis of this book seems to be more on the basic mechanics of the different processes it describes. That’s fine, and important to understand manufacturing, but…BUT, he gives very little attention to how the material being processed responds to the processing. Without a better understanding of the microstructural effects — and ensuing DEfects — it may be too hard to troubleshoot the processes described in this book. My professor was flipping through the early chapters of this book (where the materials issues are presented) and declared them “cheesy.”So, to sum up: this good book becomes great by combining it with other books/courses/professors/etc that will interject materials issues into this books discussion of the mechanical issues.

Review by Shawn S. Proctor:

I received my textbook in the estimated time frame, and it was in pristine condition. Very happy with the provider and I would purchase from them again in the future when I need more textbooks.

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Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide

Breaks down the treatment of each process into three categories: Knowledge, Application, and Development and organizes each process family based on common characteristics. Comprehensively illustrates, defines, and explains each process to provide the reader with an unequaled understanding of the process and its applications. Encourages an appreciation of the integration of design and manufacturing engineering activities that results in more practical, less expensive, and better designed products for the consumer.

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Introduction to Manufacturing Processes (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science)

This revision aims to address changes that have taken effect since the publication of the second edition. The most significant change has been in the attitude of industry to concurrent engineering. In 1987, mostly lip service was paid to it; today, it has become general practice in most competitive corporations. In the second edition , the author discussed this as the manufacturing system. In the third edition it becomes the focal point. Concurrent engineering involves the whole product realization process, including product concept, performance criteria, mechanical design and analysis, materials selection, process planning and modeling, production control, automation, assembly, management, and others. An introductory text cannot possibly cover all of these topics, hence the emphasis of the third edition remains on the physical principles and the application of these principles to processes. The major difference relative to the second edition will be the emphasis on interactions between process and design. Capabilities and limitations of processes will be highlighted to show what they mean in terms of design possibilities, and design modifications will be suggested for ease of manufacture. Impact on the environment and possibilities for recycling will be woven into the entire text.

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Handbook of Manufacturing Processes – How Products, Components and Materials Are Made

Far more ambitious than any similar reference, the Handbook of Manufacturing Processes is an in-depth compilation of the workings of more than 1500 manufacturing processes in the metalworking, chemicals, textiles, plastics, ceramics, electronics, wood, and food industries; as well as a wide-ranging presentation of how more than 600 important products, components, and materials are made. Logically organized in two sections–a process section and a products section–it describes clearly and succinctly the operations performed in the world’s factories. Heavily illustrated, it is an extraordinarily comprehensive source of technical manufacturing information. Manufacturing and process engineers, factory managers and supervisors, and anyone who has an interest in or needs to know about manufacturing operations and how products are made – including those not technically trained — will find in this book a treasure trove of useful information.
Distinctive Features
– Practical, understandable explanations, even for complex processes.
– Clear, jargon-free descriptions of how each of 1500 current and recently developed manufacturing processes work, what they do to the material or workpiece that is worked on, what the results are, and where these processes are used and why.
– Precise explanations of how 600 products, components, and materials are made.
– Text entries that are coded as in an outline, with these alpha/numerical designations carried over to the related illustrations for easy cross-referencing.
– Related processes that are grouped together; and sequential operations that are covered in order.
– Contributions from an Editorial Board of 24 experts.
– More

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Handbook of Manufacturing Processes – How Products, Components and Materials Are Made Reviews

Review by Paul W. Foster:

Mr. Bralla’s newest effort completely encompasses the ‘how, why,where and when” of evolutionary engineering. Value added…most certainly with detailed 24/7 historical solutions presented joyfully by someone supported by career success’ and offered to the educated, the uneducated

at every level of production. A must for every library.

Paul W. Foster (retired)

Plant Manager/General Cable Corporation

Field Engineer/Baker Mine Service (Hughes Tool Corporation)

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Manufacturing Processes: Automation, Materials, and Packaging

Manufacturing and Automation Technology provides thorough coverage of manufacturing (including both manufacturing processes and management technology) as it relates to the Standards for Technological Literacy. Students apply the text content to create a real-world enterprise in which they determine the management, create the products, and prepare the financial reports.

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Fundamental Manufacturing Processes, Heat Treating [VHS]

This fundamental manufacturing processes video program highlights heat treating’s versatility in altering the metallurgical properties of metals and alloys. This versatility is broken down into three groups of processes: through-hardening processes, surface hardening processes, and softening processes. The through-hardening segment utilizes animations, phase diagrams and photomicrographs to explain the hardening process and define its many variables. Quenching speed, mediums, and temperature control are examined, as well as the tempering of heat treated materials. The surface hardening section offers examples of the processes that produce surface, or case hardened parts. Included are explanations of: flame hardening, induction hardening, carburizing, nitriding, and carbonitriding. The softening processes examined in this heat treating program include: annealing, normalizing and stress relieving.

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DeGarmo’s Materials and Processes in Manufacturing

DeGarmo’s Materials and Processes in Manufacturing, 10e continues the tradition by presenting a solid introduction to the fundamentals of manufacturing along with the most up-to-date information. In order to make the concepts easier to understand, a variety of engineering materials are discussed as well as their properties and means of modifying them. Manufacturing processes and the concepts dealing with producing quality products are also covered.

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Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems

Engineers rely on Groover because of the book’s quantitative and engineering-oriented approach that provides more equations and numerical problem exercises. The fourth edition introduces more modern topics, including new materials, processes and systems.  End of chapter problems are also thoroughly revised to make the material more relevant. Several figures have been enhanced to significantly improve the quality of artwork. All of these changes will help engineers better understand the topic and how to apply it in the field.

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