Manufacturing Process Selection Handbook

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK for support of our research in engineering for manufacture, including research under grant number GR/J97922 concerned with probabilistic design and process capability analysis and under GR/M53103 and GR/M55145 on the Designers’ Sandpit project. Also, we are greatly indebted to our industrial collaborators on the various EPSRC projects, not least Phil Baker, Graham Hird, Duncan Law and Brian Miles while at CSC Manufacturing Ltd, and to Richard Batchelor, formerly of TRW.

We are immensely grateful to the engineering students and researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Hull, who have been involved over many years in supporting ...