Machine Tool Practices

The updated third edition of this text includes new material on the rapidly growing fields of CNC, CIM, CAD, and robotics. The previous editions of this successful text have helped countless students become machinists, through apprenticeship training, vocational schools, and college programmes. This new edition presents the state of the art in industrial settings in an easy-to-read format. It is extensively illustrated with photographs of actual machining operations, and graphic illustrations are used to highlight important concepts and common errors and difficulties encountered by the machinist. The previous edition of this book was published in 1982.