Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, 8th in SI Units by Pearson

Chapter I

General Introduction

I.1 What Is Manufacturing?

I.2 Product Design and Concurrent Engineering

I.3 Design for Manufacture, Assembly, Disassembly, and Service

I.4 Environmentally Conscious Design, Sustainable Manufacturing, and Product Life Cycle

I.5 Selection of Materials

I.6 Selection of Manufacturing Processes

I.7 Computer-integrated Manufacturing

I.8 Quality Assurance and Total Quality Management

I.9 Lean Production and Agile Manufacturing

I.10 Manufacturing Costs and Global Competition

I.11 Trends in Manufacturing

Case Studies:

I.1 Three-dimensional Printing of Guitars

I.2 U.S. Pennies

I.3 Saltshaker and Pepper Mill

I.1 What Is Manufacturing?

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