Manufacturing Books

This is a must have for any postharvest researcher especially when dealing with students that have not necessarily had any posharvest training. It gives the basics of postharvest physiology and technology in a simple, non-complicated way. I am an experienced postharvest physiologist but still look things up in it in areas I am less familiar with. There is only one comment I have about it and that is that it is not using SI units throughout the book.

It would be cool is they removed the barcode sticker from the back of the book so that we could read it.

Great view of blacksmithing of the 1880's. Lots of good suggestions for today. I bought the hardback with all 4 volumes in one. Great deal for the combined volume.

I first came across this book in a used book store in virginia over ten years ago. I lent it to a friend, and promptly forgot who had it. When you get your copy, chain it to your forge.

This book is a comprehensive treatise on the art of blacksmithing, as it was practiced at the turn of the century. It covers the basics of working with iron, detailing how to determine temperature by color, how to build your forge fire, how to use the basic tools and so forth, but it goes far beyond that.

In this book, you can find descriptions of such nearly forgotten subjects as how to weld wagon tires, how to make hoops for your local cooper's use, and even how to repair a broken anvil!

This book is a fascinating, clearly written encyclopedia of a nearly forgotten industry.

As noted in the other review, this book is a reprint of War Department Technical Manual 2-220, The Horseshoer. In that regard it is almost identical to "The Cavalry Horseshoer's Technical Manual" published in 1999. For me, the latter was the better choice of the two since it actually provided the publication date of the original War Department manual, 11 March 1941. Although a small point, I found this to be an important feature since it was obviously not long before there were no more cavalry horseshoers, and this version of the later reprint provided that identification/location along the timeline.

To its credit, this book is a little more faithful to the visual style of the original in both its typeface/font and the reproduction of the images. This is not necessarily a good thing since it means the image quality is occasionally pretty poor, as you might expect from a copy of a document that old. If you are really interested in learning aspects of horseshoeing from the U.S. Cavalry, I would recommend that you buy the later publication since the images and drawings are much clearer.

This book is a reprint of a small book called `The Horseshoer," which was a reprint of the War Department Technical Manual No. 2-220. It's worth owning this book just for its historical interest and value. It's not a long book - just a little more than 200 pages, but it's full of some of the most interesting and practical information you could want.

The book begins with a short description of the basic anatomy and physiology of a horse's foot. Most of the illustrations are clear, but there are some that are difficult to read. The book not only describes how the foot is constructed, but how it works. The horse's foot has always amazed me, and I found this to be one of the most interesting parts of the book. Included in this chapter are some nice figures that show toe-in, straight, and toe-out confirmations.

The next section is really quite interesting. It describes the tools used to make the horseshoes from raw iron stock, as well as to fit them to the foot. The figures here are clear and easy to read, with descriptions of the tools and what they are used for. There are the anvil, clinch cutter, forge, rounding hammer, driving hammer, hardy, farrier's knife, creaser, cutting nippers, pincers, hoof parer, farrier's tongs, rasp, pritchel, shoeing box, fire shovel, fire rake, and box-leg vice. There is also a good discussion on machine-made shoes, describing weights and sizes. And, of course, there is a nice discussion about nails, showing different sizes and views.

Most readers probably won't use section 4, unless you are a real purist. Section 4 describes how to make horseshoes from bar iron or steel. This chapter is really interesting, and I'd like some day to try making my own shoes, but it takes some pretty specialized skill and equipment. This section has some detailed descriptions about the different parts of the shoe and gives specific detailed instructions about how to form the shoe from a straight bar of material. Section 5 continues the theme with a discussion of borium-treated horseshoes for longer life. This is an interesting piece of history, as encapsulated in the opening paragraph of the section: "Research is being made by various agencies at the disposal of the War Department to develop a method of treating horseshoes with some form of very hard material which will prevent slipping and at the same time increase the wearing qualities on hard surfaced roads."

Section 6 is where the book gets down to business, and describes the fundamentals of nailing on the shoe. You can learn a lot from this chapter, but it's best to use what you learn from the book in conjunction with an expert horseshoer. You can do serious damage to a horse by driving the nails incorrectly, or by shaping the hoof incorrectly and throwing it out of balance. This is definitely one of those subjects that can be improved by reading a book, but never learned by reading a book. There are some excellent figures in this section showing the preparation of the foot, and for those who might not actually shoe the horse, this section offers some useful information for trimming. This section also has some very useful information on corrective shoeing.

The book has some good summary information on care of feet and how to deal with horses that are shy with their feet and/or kick. The book ends with a short set of questions with answers that serve to summarize the most important points. And, it has an excellent index. If you like doing things the cowboy way, or if you just want a little bit of history on your bookshelf, I recommend this book. It's practical and jam packed full of information. I've used it extensively with my own horses. It's a lot of information in a small package.

Ideal for anyone wanting to start off with basic leather making knowledge and good for revision of old timers

This is the final book on leather chemistry by Dr. Thomas Thorstensen, arguably one of the foremost experts in this field, whose career in leather chemistry spanned over fifty years. The book is concise and easy to digest and is a library must-have for anyone in the field. Dr. Thorstensen passed away in December, 2002, and shall be sorely missed.

I work with practical cases of Failure Analysis and training and I brought this book to help me in this field. I think this book is an excellent reference of information and I recommend strongly for who need guide lines and detailed information about Failure Analysis for specific industrial equipment like bears, belt drives, and another part machines.

The author usually worked as third-person contracted to investigate Failure Analysis in several industrial plants, them his vision (outdoor plant) in this book have to be considered. Day-by-day problems (maintenance problems, for example) are not necessary cover by this book as are cover uncommon problems.

Good brought choose as well.

"Practical Plant Failure Analysis: A Guide To Understanding Machinery Deterioration And Improving Equipment Reliability" provides students of mechanical engineering with an interdisciplinary approach to the concept that component failures result from a combination of factors that involve materials science, mechanics, thermodynamics, corrosion, and tribology. Author Neville W. Sachs draws upon his more than thirty years of experience and expertise to provide the reader with a practical, informative, guide to improving machinery maintenance and reliability. "Practical Plant Failure Analysis" presents practical guidance on failure mechanism, including what leads to these failures and how to avoid them, as well as featuring 'user friendly' charts to logically diagnose a failure and take the appropriate correction action. "Practical Plant Failure Analysis" offers a clear and detailed explanation of the differences between through- and case-hardened gear teeth, while its informed and informative text is enhanced with more than 300 photographs and illustrations to develop competence and confidence in visually diagnosing machinery failures. An essential reference and comprehensive instructional guide to diagnosing and dealing with machinery failure, "Practical Plant Failure Analysis" is a core addition to academic, trade school, and professional reference library collections.

This is a great tool for analyzing various configurations of pressure vessel supports and other peripheral parts that are outside the scope of the governing design codes (such as ASME). This book is also invaluable when checking your own derived stress equations against established ones.

It is the best one that merges the academic knowledge and industry requrements. It can be trusted and used in detail designing with confidence.

I am looking for this book. Please do contact me if the book is available. Thank you.

This is a great, concise, comprehensive book for anyone setting up a food processing plant.

The quality movement in the US in the 1980s and 1990s has led to a great deal of quality efforts that stress statistical measurements of process capability. These indices are intended to answer the question "How often will a manufactured part fall outsided specification limits?" Certain standards and tests based on capability indices have validity when the process variation has a normal distribution.
However, it has been my experience in the medical device industry that many processes are non-normal and that the application of the normal theory in these cases can lead one astray. Others have found this to be the case in the automobile industry as well as in other industries.

Also some people treat these indices as though they are known constants when in practice we almost always use sample estimates of means and standard deviations in our calculation of the index. This means that the "index" is itself an estimate of the capability parameter.

These issues are recognized and emphasized by Kotz and Johnson in this wonderful little monograph. It was the first book to address many of these issues and to summarize what it known based on the scattered literature. They treat all the major indices and present normal theory and bootstrap alternatives among others. It is very authoritative and is an important reference for anyone dealing with these quality control issues.

The quality movement in the US in the 1980s and 1990s has led to a great deal of quality efforts that stress statistical measurements of process capability. These indices are intended to answer the question "How often will a manufactured part fall outsided specification limits?" Certain standards and tests based on capability indices have validity when the process variation has a normal distribution.

However, it has been my experience in the medical device industry that many processes are non-normal and that the application of the normal theory in these cases can lead one astray. Others have found this to be the case in the automobile industry as well as in other industries.

Also some people treat these indices as though they are known constants when in practice we almost always use sample estimates of means and standard deviations in our calculation of the index. This means that the "index" is itself an estimate of the capability parameter.

These issues are recognized and emphasized by Kotz and Johnson in this wonderful little monograph. It was the first book to address many of these issues and to summarize what it known based on the scattered literature. They treat all the major indices and present normal theory and bootstrap alternatives among others. It is very authoritative and is an important reference for anyone dealing with these quality control issues.

The objectives of this text are very similar to the objectives in the Kotz and Johnson treatise of 1993. Written 5 years later this text can be looked at in part as an update to that volume.
However, that book was more of a reference manual for process capability whereas this book reads more like a course text including many more illustrations and examples. Also there is an attempt here to include both the theoretical and applied aspects of capability indices.

It covers the available distribution theory results for processes with normal distributions and non-normal as well. The effect of non-normality is carefully analyzed and alternative methods including the bootstrap are considered. This has all the attributes of Kotz and Johnson book but is more current, more detailed and has more references.

The objectives of this text are very similar to the objectives in the Kotz and Johnson treatise of 1993. Written 5 years later this text can be looked at in part as an update to that volume.

However, that book was more of a reference manual for process capability whereas this book reads more like a course text including many more illustrations and examples. Also there is an attempt here to include both the theoretical and applied aspects of capability indices.

It covers the available distribution theory results for processes with normal distributions and non-normal as well. The effect of non-normality is carefully analyzed and alternative methods including the bootstrap are considered. This has all the attributes of Kotz and Johnson book but is more current, more detailed and has more references.

Trevor Kletz's book is a summary of a lifetime of lectures on the subject of process safety. It is a fascinating collection of observations and ideas distilled from his many books on the subject. I always prefer material that has gone through the fire, which has served as presentation material for courses and training. He has a clear message, which is defined succinctly in the appendix of the book: "An atlas of safety thinking." Here, he defines the four guiding principles explained throughout the book: 1) intensification; 2) substitution; 3) attenuation; 4) and, simplification. For example, attenuation can be explained by saying if you can't eliminate the risk, maybe you can reduce it by changing the physical conditions: e.g. lower the temperature or pressure.

There are numerous examples in this small book. I found the paragraphs on nitroglycerine amusing. He described how operators worked with huge batches of material on one-legged stools to keep their attention keen. You'll have to read the book yourself on how they improved the process. Today, making nitroglycerine is probably the safest process in the munitions industry because inertia equates with mortality.

Trevor (I've emailed him a couple of times) comments frequently about inertia to change. He asks clearly why the oil industry and others continue to use large distillation columns without considering Higee distillation. Higee columns are much smaller making inventories of flammable chemicals small as well. Trevor's comments are well-supported; they remind me of an earlier innovator in business philosophy, another man I deeply admire: W. Edward Demming. Some of you may know him as the founder of modern quality science. He quickly realized that applying statistics to production lines did little to enhancing quality. Teaching the engineers did little to improve products. They were well aware of problems. Changing the mindset of managers is necessary. And, so it is in chemical engineering. We must look to new ideas if we are to reduce costs, shrink our carbon footprint, and cut environmental damage. Our major competitors, Europe and the Chinese are already thinking this way, don't you think it is time for us? Trevor reports that the Chinese are working on their version of Hi-Gee. Shouldn't we be working on ours?

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I think some explanations are needed on its title. According to the preface, the book was first published under the name of

* Cheaper, Safer Plants or Wealth and Safety at Work(1985)

and extended to the new title

* Plant Design for Safety - A User-Friendly Approach(1991)

and 70% expanded to the latest title

* Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design(1998).

The Aamzon's title may not be updated, but I got the latest one. It's slim(about 200 pages) and very readable.