Manufacturing Engineer's Reference Book

Preface
No reference book on manufacturing engineering will ever be
an unqualified success. It cannot be a panacea for those
seeking cures for the ills of poor management. At best it
provides an insight into the multifarious techniques and processes
which combine to enable goods to be produced competitively
in terms of cost, quality, reliability and delivery.
Within manufacturing organisations it is to be hoped that
specialist knowledge exists in all the relevant fields, extending
beyond the confines of the chapters in a reference book. If it
does not exist, the companies must ensure that they acquire it
by providing suitable training or by employing experts, if they
hope to survive.
What purpose is served, then, by this sort of reference
book? The editor believes that, apart from those copies which
are destined to gather dust in executives' bookcases to help
provide an ambience of professional respectability, the book
will be useful for top and middle managers who feel the need
to widen their perspectives. With this in mind it has been
written in compartmentalised form, each section being freestanding
and capable of being understood as an introductory
text. It will also be of use to engineering students as an adjunct
to the more specific texts used in support of their lectures.
Some reference books are primarily compendiums of tabulated
data, essential to the task of technical quantification.
This volume is not such a compendium: it is mainly a
qualitative approach to knowledge gathering from which
subsequent quantification may be attempted. It covers those
aspects of manufacture which are essential for designing new
production systems or for managing exisiting factories. These
include materials selection, manufacturing and fabrication
processes, quality control, and the use of computers for the
control of processes and production management.
The editor wishes to thank the specialist authors who
contributed their expertise for their forbearance during the
various stages of preparation, together with colleagues, past
and present, at the University of Brighton for their suggestions.
Special thanks are due to Mr Don Richardson for his
helpful suggestions on various chapters.
I would particularly like to thank my wife and family for
their continued support during this project.
Dr Dalbir Koshal
University of Brighton

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