Process Planning. The Design/Manufacture Interface
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Author(s): P. Scallan
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750651296
Format: softback
482pp
Price: £24.99
Review Date: 24 October 2003
Review: The process-planning engineer needs to ensure that a product is manufactured to the correct specification, at the lowest possible cost – and is ready on time. This undergraduate textbook covers all the manufacturing steps, including the selection of processes, equipment, tooling and sequencing of the operations that are needed to produce a finished product from raw material. It begins by describing how manufacturing systems operate and gives an introduction to process planning methods. It goes on to explain how to identify the relevant drawing information that will help identify critical processing factors. The other factors in process planning are explained in detail: material evaluation and process selection; choosing production equipment and tooling; setting appropriate process parameters for the chosen machine and tooling for a given component; designing and selecting a workholding device for a particular operation; using quality assurance to ensure product quality; and costing the process.