Manufacturing Technologies for Machines of the Future
Subtitle: 21st Century Technologies
By: edited by Anatoli I. Dashchenko
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9783642628221; 9783642557767
Subjects: Computer engineering; Engineering design; Industrial engineering; Engineering
Description: This combination of handbook and multimedia CD-ROM offers the most up-to-date view of today's and tomorrow's world of manufacturing technologies. It was written by leading experts from the USA, Europe, and Asia and spans a wide range of topics: from industrial management and organization to automation and control, from mechanical to electronical technology, and from machine tools to the consumer goods industry. It gives a unique interdisciplinary and global presentation of material and combines, for the first time, theoretical and significant practical results from the last decades of the most important branches of machine building. Its broad coverage should appeal to the highly skilled scientific expert as well as to the experienced design engineer, and to undergraduate as well as to advanced students.
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Table of contents: title: The role of mechanical engineering in the 21st century; title: Globalization of production: Consequences for product design and technology; title: Fractal company- A revolution in corporate culture; title: Adaptable production structures; title: Life cycle engineering; title: Fundamental aspects of mechanical engineering; title: High-speed machining; title: Aspects of manufacturing systems integration; title: CAPP systems for machining, assembly, and disassembly operations; title: Modeling of machine tools and assembly systems; title: Cybernetic structures, networks and adaptive control of work systems in manufacturing; title: Rapid prototyping in manufacturing; title: Challenges in electronic production; title: Electronic vacuum technologies; title: New solid-state lasers and their application potential; title: New information technologies in industrial activity of the enterprises; title: Modeling of manufacturing and technological processes in CIM; title: New machine tools and systems; title: Reconfigurable manufacturing systems; title: Robot technology; title: Methods for nondestructive testing and diagnostics of automative equipment and technological systems of machines; title: Prospects of technology development; title: Perspectives of innovative technologies in manufacturing.