Manufacturing Process Selection Handbook

Preface

As we write this handbook, most nations of the world are facing economic pressures not seen since the 1930s and consequently, it has never been more important to design products that can be manufactured economically and at high levels of quality.

In order to facilitate the achievement of the required quality and cost objectives for the manufacture of a component/product design solution, it is necessary to carry out the interrelated activities of selecting candidate processes and tuning a design to get the best out of a chosen manufacturing route. These are difficult decision-making tasks that few experts do well, particularly in the situation of new product introduction.

Failure to get this right often results in late engineering change, ...