Product Description: By emphasizing similarities among types and styles, Jig and Fixture Design, 5E speeds readers to a complete understanding of the why's and how's of designing and building a variety of different workholders for manufacturing. From simple template and plate-type jigs to complex channel and box-type tooling, this newly revised edition features more than 500 illustrations of tools and applications to spur readers to success...read more

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Product Description: Presents improved methods that are designed to save time and money and help the reader increase productivity. Covers the basics of setup reduction. Discusses in considerable detail all aspects of workholding. Provides suggested alternatives to existing accepted procedures...read more

Product Description: This book should be of interest to courses in machining technology programs at post-secondary, vocational and proprietary schools.

Concise yet comprehensive, this highly acclaimed training manual and reference provides the many phases of inspection work and their application to today's manufacturing operations through a practical down-to-earth presentation. Discusses a range of manual and automatic measuring devices along with their specific functions and the specialized functions involved in their use. Analyzes the methods and duties of inspectors. Appropriate for use by inspection supervisors, plant managers, quality control engineers and subcontractors. Includes SPC and other data analysis methods for manufacturing applications. Provides detailed discussions of available measuring and quantitative systems. Compares important measuring and gaging systems.