Manufacturing Technology Research: Volume 1

Today, manufacturing technology is an interdisciplinary field involving the analysis of product design to assure manufacturability, the selection, specification, and optimisation of the required equipment, tooling, processes and operations. Manufacturing technology is well established in a great number of industries such as aircraft, automotive, aerospace, machine tools, moulds and dies, product manufacturing, computers, electronics, semiconductor and communications, biomedical, etc. This book focuses on all materials, metals, plastics, ceramics, composites, and bio and nanomaterials as well as all manufacturing processes.