Essential manufacturing / Gordon Mair.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Manufacturing history -- Typical manufacturing industries -- Designing for manufacture -- Manufacturing concepts -- Manufacturing materials -- Materials for manufacture -- Materials production -- Manufacturing processes -- Casting -- Cutting processes -- Deformation processes -- Pressworking -- Plastics processing -- Additive manufacturing processes -- Miscellaneous metalworking processes -- Manufacturing processes in the electronics industry -- Assembly and joining -- Material and process selection -- Manufacturing automation -- Manufacturing automation - introduction -- The building blocks of automated systems -- Reprogrammable automation -- Machine vision -- Manufacturing operations management -- Production planning -- Production control -- Work study -- Manufacturing economics -- Maintaining manufacturing quality -- Quality defined - quality management and assurance -- Metrology and statistical quality control -- Human factors in manufacturing -- Human factors in manufacturing.

"Provides a comprehensive, concise introduction to the manufacturing industry for engineering and management students Takes a self-contained approach - Covers materials, processes, operation management, production planning, quality control and human factors - Includes review questions - Suitable as an introduction for more advanced study Market description: Tier C/Undergraduate text Primary: Undergraduate students in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Secondary: Practitioners and graduate students in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Undergraduate and graduate students studying manufacturing in business courses"-- Provided by publisher.