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| The Internet has been the a great asset for people like me that buy a lot of books. Two sites in particular, www.half.com and www.amazon.com, are at the top of my Favorites list because they sell books on many different topic. Half.com sells used books, sometimes at a fraction of the retail price. There are many more sites that are of interest to a manufacturing professional. www.schroff.com sells training manuals for many different CAD\CAM systems. One resource overlooked by a lot of machinists or manufacturing engineers are the manuals for the machine tool. Sometimes they are hard to read but there can be a lot of useful information hidden in there. For example, I once wanted to print out some inspection data from a probing routine. I spent an exciting evening reading the connection manual (normally not included but I usually purchase a copy with the machine) and noticed that the control's main board had a serial port that wasn't being used because we didn't have a tape reader. I purchased a panel mount serial printer, a 20 pin Honda connector and pretty soon my probing routine was printing out after every cycle. Some of my favorite books for manufacturing are: Machinery's handbook - Not much to say about this one except you can call yourself a machinist unless you own a copy! I have looked at the CD-Rom version and wasn't too impressed. I do like the full size version though. Industrial Press, Inc. http://www.industrialpress.com Jig and Fixture Design - Written by Edward Hoffman of Modern Machine Shop fame. I attended a Fixture design class taught by Mr. Hoffman at WESTEC one year. He is a very good instructor and a great Jig and Fixture designer. I hope Modern Machine Shop publishes his complete series of articles some day. Delmar publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8273-2439-1 Metal Fabricators Handbook - Ron and Sue Fournier. This is a great book for a machinist. We tend to only think of turning and milling but fabrication is a big part of metal working. This book covers all the inexpensive hand tools and esoteric home made tools used by fabricators. The beauty of this book is that it shows you how to equip a pretty nice fabrication shop for very little money. A $500 MIG welder (I bought a complete Lincoln SP130T including tank and regulator used for $375), a $300 Oxy/Acetylene outfit and some hand tools will get you going on some impressive projects! Harbor Freight, east of the college on Mill, has some decent tools for great prices. Mathematics at Work 3rd. Edition by Holbrook L. Horton. Good all around reference for the machinist or programmer. ISBN 0-8311-3029-6 http://www.Industrialpress.com Interpretation of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing - Written by Daniel E. Puncochar. GD&T is a difficult subject to learn and this book does a good job of explaining it. Industrial Press, Inc. Modern Metal Cutting A Practical Handbook - By Sandvik. This book is probably too expensive for an individual to purchase but if you can talk your friendly local Sandvik Rep out of one or get the boss to pay for one go for it! There is so much information on cutting tools and machinability in this book that it's probably the definitive guide on the topic. Quality Control - Written by Dale H. Besterfield. If you want to understand Statistical Process Control, and you do if you want to be "outstanding in this field", this is a good book to start with. Prentice-Hall Engineering Materials and Their Applications - Flinn/Trojan. This is a College level text book and may be too much for the average machinist but if you really want to understand material science this is a good book. Covers Metals, Ceramics, Polymers and Composites. Houghton Mifflin Company Understanding Lasers - Written by Jeff Hecht. This is a great, easy to understand introduction into modern lasers. If you have ever wondered how a laser works this is the book for you. Published by Howard W. Sams & Company. |
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