The edition addresses issues essential to modern manufacturing, ranging from traditional topics such as casting, forming, machining, and joining, to advanced topics such as the fabrication of nanomaterials. Comprehensive coverage of relevant engineering fundamentals and traditional as well as advanced applications of manufacturing processes and operations. This book is written primarily for students in the mechanical, industrial, and metallurgical and materials engineering programs. A solid introduction to the fundamentals of manufacturing along with the most up-to-date information. Manufacturing processes and the concepts dealing with producing quality products are also covered.

1. Question 1: Non-conventional manufacturing processes
2. Question 2: The Electro-discharge Machining (EDM) process
3. Question 3: Factors causing tool wear
4. Question 4: Acceptance sampling
5. Question 5: Principles of the Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM)
6. Question 6: Fibre reinforced plastic composites
7. Question 7: A cutting test on a steel bar
8. Question 8: Electro-discharge machining (EDM) requirements & properties
9. Question 9: Hard and soft automation
10. Question 10: Surface integrity of manufactured surfaces: properties & applications
11. Question 11: Bored holes - plug and gap gauges
12. Question 12: Integrated Manufacturing Systems: a facility of large and small machines
13. Question 13: Simulation method, determining the time to complete the batch and the machine utilisation
14. Question 14: Plain carbon steels and high strength low alloy steels (HSLA)
15. Question 15: Ferritic stainless steel & the mechanism of corrosion
16. Question 16: Impact Strength (J) to Test Temperature
17. Question 17: Metal and polymer material applicability
18. Question 18: Maximum tolerable through thickness crack size
19. Question 19: Glass fibres production - Reinforced composite design
20. References
21. Endnotes