Manufacturing processes and systems / Phillip F. Ostwald, Jairo Muñoz.

The manufacturing system - Nature and properties of materials - Production of ferrous metals - Production of nonferrous metals - Foundry processes - Contemporary casting processes - Basic machine tool elements - Metal cutting - Turning, drilling, boring and milling machine tools - Sawing, broaching, shaping and planing - Machining cutters, operations and performance - Grinding and abrasive processes - Welding and joining processes - Hot working of metal - Cold working of metal - Presswording and operations - Heat treating - Plastic materials and processes - Electronic fabrication - Nontraditional processes and powder metallurgy - Thread and gear wording - Finish processes - Operations planning - Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing - Tool design - Metrology and testing - Quality systems - Computer numerical control systems - Process automation - Operator-machine systems - Cost estimating.