Handbook of Product Design for Manufacturing: A Practical Guide to Low-Cost Production (Mcgraw-Hill Handbooks in Mechanical and Industrial Engineeri) [Hardcover]

James G. Bralla (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1986 | ISBN-10: 0070071306 | ISBN-13: 978-0070071308

A Practical Guide to Low-Cost Production offers a detailed overview of common manufacturing processes for the designer or manufacturing engineer. Covers a full range of processes from metal stamping, forging, casting, molding, thermoforming, and more. Specifies optimum material grades and dimensional tolerance data for each production process.

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From the Back Cover

Utilize this exacting blueprint to improve quality and economy of your manufactured product, at every state of manufacturing. From raw materials...to machining and casting...to assembly and finishing, the Second Edition of this classic guide will introduce you to the principles and procedures of Design for Manufacturability (DFM)--the art of developing high-quality products for the lowest possible manufacturing cost. Written by over 70 experts in manufacturing and product design, this popular productivity tool gives you the know-how to design products for function, quality, reliability, maintainability, and benefits to the environment--while drastically simplifying the manufacturing required! If you want to achieve world-class quality and economy in your manufacturing operations--this is the book that will help you save time and materials...reduce expenses...stimulate new ideas...improve job performance...and make better design decisions. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

James G. Bralla is a manufacturing consultant. He has been an Industry Professor at Polytechnic University in New York, Vice President - Operations for Alpha Metals, Inc., and has had a long career in manufacturing engineering and management. He is also the author of McGraw-Hill's Design for Excellence. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1135 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) (January 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070071306
• ISBN-13: 978-0070071308
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,110,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" for design/manufacturing engineers, February 11, 2000

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Blaine Lilly (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Design for Manufacturability Handbook (Hardcover)

I teach Product Design Engineering at Ohio State and I can honestly say that Bralla is absolutely the best single reference for working designers and manufacturing engineers that I've found. An incredible compendium of useful info on just about any manufacturing process you can think of, and plenty you HAVEN'T thought of, plus chapters on Design for Assembly, materials, economic considerations - you name it. The book is a bit pricey, but considering the amount of useful information packed into it, it's a steal. Bralla far exceeds McGraw-Hill's regrettably low standards for their handbooks - this one is a keeper!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good starting point, March 29, 2008

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Nicholas Ellson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Design for Manufacturability Handbook (Hardcover)

The book provides a good starting point for design, especially for new engineers. Much of the content is `common sense' to those with experience. It covers many topics, but none in significant depth. I have yet to find a real alternative to talking to machine shops, but with the help of this text you may at least be on the same wavelength. Most people buying this will be doing it with their company's money - in saved time it is definitely worth it.

5.0 out of 5 stars A all in one design bible, February 1, 2011

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Sébastien Industrial Design Student - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Design for Manufacturability Handbook (Hardcover)

First of all as a second year student in industrial design, I was looking to get an easy to read AND complete manual on overall design. I was ready to buy as many books as needed to have my own ressources on many design tolerences and ways to build... Let just say that my teachers only had that book in mind, with an impressive library collection. Every single one of them went direcly to that one for everything, then and only then they would search on a more precise book. It happened once.

For my part it's a very easy to use and quite complete book on every topic I can think of, from metals to plastics... at that price don't look away! So far I've never needed anything else, but when I'll work with SPECIFIC plastics I may look for a specialized document.