Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems [Hardcover]

Mikell P. Groover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 29, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0471656542 | ISBN-13: 978-0471656548 | Edition: 2nd Edition Update

Reflecting the increasing importance of ceramics, polymers, composites, and silicon in manufacturing, Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of these other materials and their processing, without sacrificing its solid coverage of metals and metal processing. Topics include such modern processes as rapid prototyping, microfabrication, high speed machining and nanofabrication. Additional features include:

• Emphasis on how material properties relate to the process variables in a given process.
• Emphasis on manufacturing science and quantitative engineering analysis of manufacturing processes.
• More than 500 quantitative problems are included as end of chapter exercises.
• Multiple choice quizzes in all but one chapter (approximately 500 questions).
• Coverage of electronics manufacturing, one of the most commercially important areas in today's technology oriented economy.
• Historical notes are included to introduce manufacturing from the earliest materials and processes, like woodworking, to the most recent.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book takes a modern, all-inclusive look at manufacturing processes. Its coverage is strategically divided--65% concerned with manufacturing process technologies, 35% dealing with engineering materials and production systems. Groover adopts an approach that is more quantitative and engineering-oriented than most competing books, with more equations and numerical problem exercises. His goal is to make the subject of manufacturing processes more of an objective science and less of a descriptive art. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Most introductory books on manufacturing processes focus almost exclusively on metals. Although metals are certainly important, ceramics, polymers, composites, and silicon are increasingly important as engineering and manufacturing materials today.

The second edition of Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing provides a comprehensively treatment of these other materials and their processing, without sacrificing its solid coverage of metals and metal processing. In addition, new chapters have been included on Rapid Prototyping and Microfabrication. And new sections have been added on a variety of other topics, including High Speed Machining and Nanofabrication.

Other features of Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing Materials, Processes, and Systems include:

• Emphasis on how material properties relate to the process variables in a given process.
• Emphasis on manufacturing science and quantitative engineering analysis of manufacturing processes.
• More than 500 quantitative problems are included as end of chapter exercises.
• Multiple choice quizzes in all but one chapter (approximately 500 questions).
• Coverage of electronics manufacturing, one of the most commercially important areas in today's technology oriented economy.
• Historical notes are included to introduce manufacturing from the earliest materials and processes, like woodworking, to the most recent.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2nd Edition Update edition (December 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471656542
• ISBN-13: 978-0471656548
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,477,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Text. Beware the typos!, November 3, 2010

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Mao Jian Hong "jsm_00" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems (Hardcover)

From a student's perspective, this is a very good textbook on manufacturing. I must give a warning however to both students and professors, however. This book is chock-full of typos. I'm not talking small, grammar-related typos; I'm talking about significant typos such as formula errors: variables missing, variables inside parentheses that should be outside them, etc. (If you have the text, note equations 11.3 and 11.4 on p. 243 for fairly blatant examples.)

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing, May 4, 1998

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This review is from: Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems (Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering) (Hardcover)

I think this is a great reference book. I have had prof. Groover in 3 of my Industrial Engineering classes at Lehigh University. There is not a single semester when I don't go back to use the book as a reference. The book is very easy to read, and to understand.

1.0 out of 5 stars I hate this book, February 1, 2012

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shivwits (salt lake city, ut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems (Hardcover)

This is one of the least user friendly textbooks I've had while I've been an engineering student. I feel that it doesn't explain complex topics that require a lot of calculations very well. It provides absolutely no answers in the back of the book, so you have no idea how you're doing until you turn in your homework and get an F on it. I wish we were using a different text.