Manufacturing Books

Starting with a history of the evolution of horseshoes since ancient times the book goes on to explain how horses are shod and the right and wrong ways of doing it. The authors rely on basic scientific principles to create a simple and understandable approach that will help both lay persons and experts to a better understanding of horseshoeing.

Eureka! Victor Ednarcik has put together a marvelous primer for the novice and an excellent handbook for the experienced engineer. My thanks to the author.

These is a high technology book on new materials (publish recently 1999) for Engineers that needs to be updated and select materials for applications on oil, petrochemical, and chemical plants that needs high strenght and corrosion resistance

The book makes a clear description on what we can expect on solving problems on pitting, crevice corrosion, stress corrosion cracking using high nitrogen steels

The book descrives too, the problems that manufactures can expect on producing HNS, due to volatility of nitrogen, mainly in melting (alloying), heat treating and welding

The book describes Martensitic, Austenic, mixed microstructure, solution nitriding steels and the different applications

In my case it is an excelent book for materials selection on Valves manufacturing, you will get more, than the price that you will paid for it

This article was excellent and too insightful for even me. Onward.

If you are in a manufacturing organization and are looking for a cookbook that will let you implement Demand Flow Manufacturing ideas in a smooth manner- buy several copies of this book for your teams.

Although the ideas presented are not new, Tincher does a commendable job of presenting them in a framework that begs implementation.

This is the single most comprehensive text book I've seen related to modern manufacturing principles and processes. Moreover, it is keyed to a nationally recognized portable credential: the MSSC certification.

-R. J. Winkler, Ph.D.
-Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana

Highland Handcrafters: Appalachian Craftspeople is the captivating true story of both early and late immigrants to the Appalachian Mountains region and the wondrous handcrafts they have produced throughout the generations. Chapters tell the stories of individuals who created everything from harnesses to metal sculptures, paintings, blown glass, pottery, stone buildings, music, furniture, cider, and much more. Each profile of an individual includes a black-and-white photographs and a down-to-earth about the person's life and creations. An absorbing multiple profile of resourceful, creative, and skilled human beings.

The authors do an outstanding job of concisely describing and illustrating the manufacturing processes and related integrity threats for steel pipelines manufactured as early as the beginning of the 20th century. Other useful sections include a description of the evolution of all API 5L and 5LX specifications, tabulations of current and past pipe manufacturers and pipe mills (including descriptions of the sizes, types, and grades produced), and suggestions regarding identification of pipe of unknown origin. Anyone who operates, inspects, or provides engineering support for pipleine systems, particularly older pipeline systems, will find this book useful.

Model railroader and steel industry enthusiast Dean Freytag wrote this book for the Walthers steel series which also included various model of the steel industry. The first edition quickly became hard to find. With Walthers permission, the NMRA had a limited edition of the book reprinted. The book includes numerous photographs. A chapter is dedicated to a tour of the USS/Kobe Steel works in Lorain, Ohio. Finally, suggested model railroad layouts and operation are presented.

If you are interested in knowing the history of American playing cards, this through book is the best reference I know of. It has an amazing number of illustrations, most black & white but with a thick section of color in the middle of the book.

The authors are members of the club "52+Joker", and have done a real nice job with this book. Note that there are no playing-card rules in this book.