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The new fourth edition includes updated and expanded information on press brakes by Steven D. Benson and is ideal for use in classroom and on-the-job training...

Bending Basics is an A-Z comprehensive reference on the art of press brakes.  It is ideal for individual use or in classroom and on-the-job training programs.

This book on slitting is designed specifically to help slitting related personnel do a better job.

This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to make the most frequently used fittings.

The 2020 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications.

Developed from the author's own practical experience, this unique resource details a proven, 10-step approach to cost reduction, and provides a series of tools to help you achieve sustainable cost...

This practical, no-frills book offers complete coverage of piping practices and maintenance all in one place. Written by a professional with 35 years of hands-on knowledge and experience in pipeline...

This handbook explains the various methods of brazing aluminum and includes charts and tables to help designers plan brazing operations.

Volume 14A is an indispensable reference for manufacturing, materials and design engineers.

This comprehensive reference on sheet metal forming and fabrication provides state-of-the-art reference information for product and production engineers.

Volume 6 is the most comprehensive reference book ever produced on the major joining technologies and their applications to engineered materials.

This one-stop reference is a tremendous value and time saver for engineers, designers and researchers who select and process aluminum and aluminum alloys. Covers all aspects of the selection,...

Carbon and alloy steels are the workhorse of structural materials in modern engineering because of their very reasonable costs coupled with their many and varied properties that allow their use in...

The best single-volume reference on the metallurgy, selection, processing, performance, and evaluation of stainless steels, incorporating essential information culled from across the ASM Handbook...

If you are involved with machining or metalworking or you specify materials for industrial components, this book is an absolute must. It gives you detailed and comprehensive information about the...

Features more than 20,000 alloy designations, including a complete listing of UNS designations for nonferrous alloys and comprehensive treatment of European and Japanese standards. It covers more...

Success in automatic assembly design and operation comes from an awareness and sensitivity to a multitude of small design details, and only Frank Riley could pack so much knowledge and experience...

If your asset data is not reliable, you need to convince the organization of the enormous potential that is locked away. To accomplish this, you need to understand the breadth of the problem and the...

Everyone needs a refresher sometimes. The 8th edition of the AutoCAD® Pocket Reference provides easy access to everyday information needed by AutoCAD users, including concepts, how-to, and...

This best-selling Exercise Workbook is the perfect resource for learning and honing essential AutoCAD skills, whether you are a complete beginner, seeking to improve your 2D drawing skills, or simply...

Updated to account for ISO 55000, Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard...

The use of computers for engineering design, and in CNC for manufacturing, has dramatically changed the cam design and manufacturing process. Additionally, cam design and manufacturing have been...

Completely revised and updated for 2008. Details cleaning methods for mill-finished, anodized, chemical-coated, painted, porcelain enameled, plated and laminated aluminum finishes. It

This book is your guide to the latest in coil processing technology.

Designed for operators, maintenance persons, and supervisors, this book provides helpful information on the purchase, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of cold pilger mills.

Designed to provide enough information to train someone new in all the aspects of becoming a steel estimator, this manual is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to become a steel estimator, as...

Designed for both the experienced estimator and the beginner, this book provides proven methods for improving your estimating skills, techniques, and procedures.

This unique handbook provides total coverage of issues related to countersinking and chamfering holes, including history of their use, design reasons, and basic cutter design.

Machining is one of the most important manufacturing processes, which remove unwanted material in the form of chips from a workpiece. Material removal operations are among the most expensive; in the...

None of the few Design for Reliability (DFR) books currently available addresses the process from the owner’s (or buyer’s) perspective. Instead, they approach DFR strictly from the seller’s (or...

Retaining its unique and much praised organization, this leading text has been revised to reflect the most recent developments in design tools. It provides balanced coverage of relevant fundamentals...

This practical book covers the safe operation of digital multimeters (DMMs).

Effective Maintenance Management examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risks relating to safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. Providing...

This full-color text/workbook demonstrates how electrical technicians use math on the job.

This textbook explains residential, commercial, and industrial applications of electrical and electronic principles.

This book features state-of-the-art information for safe electrical practices for public and private buildings, homes and structures, outdoor yards and lots, utility...

This comprehensive textbook provides a detailed overview of facility electrical equipment and systems as well as the testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting skills used on the job.

From the simple to the complex, just about every type of bend allowance problem you will ever encounter is covered in this book.

This practical text/workbook addresses the design, application, and maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

A unique handbook, Hazardous Chemicals Safety & Compliance Handbook for the Metalworking Industries provides operators and technicians in the metalworking, machining, and metal finishing...

This textbook provides an overview of IAQ problems, instruments, and testing procedures, and how to maintain IAQ in institutional and commercial facilities.

This industry-leading textbook presents real-world maintenance problems and solutions, along with equipment operation principles, maintenance management procedures, and troubleshooting scenarios for...

The Industrial Maintenance and Troubleshooting Workbook is designed to reinforce concepts and provide system information and activities that promote critical thinking and help...

This comprehensive textbook addresses industrial mechanical principles, components, and circuits as well as mechanical system efficiencies.

The Industrial Mechanics Workbook is a heavily-illustrated, comprehensive workbook that tests the learner on content presented in the text.

Identifying a manufacturing process that can be automated is often a daunting task. Industrial Robotics teaches a team approach to qualifying, validating, and then finally, implementing a...

Best selling authors Michael Gelb & Sarah Miller Caldicott, great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, apply the best practices of this American genius to contemporary business situations to helpyou...

This industry-leading textbook takes a technician-level approach to the instrumentation and control techniques used in advanced manufacturing and automation

The Instrumentation and Process Control Workbook reinforces key concepts and offers practical exercises to promote critical thinking and to help learners apply these concepts in...

Completely updated for ASME Y14.5-2009! Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) has become accepted around the world as the international symbolic language that allows engineers and...

Introduction to SPC is a handbook on the basics to help you understand how statistical tools can improve your processes and your bottom line by reducing waste in your operation.

Are you responsible for your plant's industrial machines? Is My Machine OK? is a compact and handy reference on the potential risks of machine failure and safe machinery operation.

Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance...

Divided into three basic sections, this unique resource provides an understandable and implementable approach to inserting Lean in a manufacturing operation, pointing out the stumbling blocks and...

The concept of lean production is not new, but the challenges of dramatic change management often stymie business leaders trying to put lean operations into place. This newly-revised and greatly...

An encyclopedic, A-Z listing of terminology, Loss Prevention and Safety Control: Terms and Definitions addresses the need for a comprehensive reference that provides a complete and sufficient...

With over 70% of bearing failures attributed to ineffective lubrication practices, no one involved in asset management can afford to pass up this new edition! As a clear, concise, practical...

Designers at all levels of experience need a handy, comprehensive reference that helps them get the job done faster... and better. Machine Designers Reference by J. Marrs fulfills the need, and then...

This text/workbook presents the symbols, practices, and concepts used in prints created for manufacturing and machining processes.

The Machinery's Handbook 31 Digital Edition includes the complete contents of the print edition, plus Digital Edition-only material, added indexes, and the complete contents of...

Since the first edition published more than 100 years ago, Machinery’s Handbook has been the most popular engineering resource of all time. Universally considered the principal reference in the...

This book complements but does not replace the Machinery's Handbook, 31st Edition.   The Guide is also included in the expanded Machinery's Handbook 31 Digital Edition...

This book complements, but does not replace the Machinery's Handbook, 31st Edition.   Overview Machinery’s Handbook, Pocket Companion, is a concise yet authoritative, highly useful...

Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices has become a standard reference for anyone preparing for maintenance and reliability professional exams. The new Third Edition includes updates...

Based on real-world experience, this invaluable guide and reference tells the whole story of maintenance planning from beginning to end in a concise and easy-to-follow manner.

From the ability to understand and use shop mathematics to the reading and interpreting of shop drawings, the editor's intent is to provide the information and know-how that students will need as...

The most comprehensive reference guide you can fit in your pocket. Includes sections of formulas, charts and tables, production standards and material data.

Metal Shaping Processes is a comprehensive text focusing on metal shaping processes, which are still the most widely used processes in the manufacture of products and structures....

This book outlines the basic principles of metallurgical design of flat rolled steels to obtain flat steel products with required metallurgical and mechanical properties.

The completely revised Second Edition of Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist provides a solid understanding of the basic principles and current practices of metallurgy. The new edition has been...

The Metallurgy Study Guide presents questions and trade tests to complement the text material.

This comprehensive textbook presents the material properties and behavior of pure metals and common metal alloys.

This revised and expanded Third Edition contains 21 chapters summarizing the latest thinking on various technologies relating to metalworking fluid development, laboratory evaluation, metallurgy,...

Metalworking Sink or Swim is a collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade. It is presented in a way that captures the attention of users and engages...

Metalworking: Doing it Better will help you develop new metalworking skills and improve those you already have. The book is perfect for hobbyists and veterans alike, and for those who work out...

This book provides an overview of necessary safety practices, potential workplace hazards, and how various processes need to be managed to maintain a safe workplace.

An excellent reference manual for tube benders as well as engineers, designers, manufacturers, and fabricators, this book offers comprehensive, practical information about pipe and tube bending...

A standard reference for decades, this edition of Pipe Welding Procedures continues to reinforce the welder's understanding of procedures. Drawing on his extensive practical and teaching experience...

This book describes practical cost estimating principles, practices, and procedures; provides a noncomplicated, cost-effective, step-by-step method for cost estimating; and points out the pitfalls,...

Save money by improving your shop layout! This handbook will help you set up your shop to improve efficiency and production.

This text/workbook covers essential math concepts and how they are applied on the job in agriculture, alternative energy, culinary arts, boiler operation, construction, electrical, HVAC,...

This book contains step-by-step instructions for laying out patterns for round fittings. 

This instructor's guide correlates with the Precision Sheet Metal: Blueprint Reading text book (PRABR3) and student's workbook (PRABR1) to present a step-by-step method for learning to read sheet...

The Student's Workbook correlates with the Precision Sheet Metal: Blueprint Reading text book and provides practice and application.

This textbook presents a step-by-step method for learning to read sheet metal drawings.

This instructor's guide correlates with the textbook (PRAMA3) to present a step-by-step method for learning to read sheet metal drawings. A student's workbook (PRAMA1) is also available.

This workbook correlates with the textbook (PRAMA3) to provide practice and application. Instructor's Guide (PRAMA2) also available.

This textbook reviews basic mathematic principles and their applications to shop problems. It reviews addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, and...

Precision Sheet Metal: Shop Practice provides drawings of typical sheet metal parts, ranging from the most common to the most difficult.

Principles of Brazing is a valuable resource for those working with the brazing process or designing component joints. This book will help solve practical engineering challenges, by building on...

If you work with soldering processes or soldered components, Principles of Soldering will help you understand and solve practical engineering challenges.

Printreading Based on the 2023 NEC® provides a thorough foundation for understanding drawings and concepts related to electrical printreading and includes important changes that appear in the 2023...

This practical textbook covers the printreading skills needed to safely install and troubleshoot common residential, commercial, and industrial electrical systems.

This text/workbook presents printreading fundamentals using AWS welding symbols as well as printreading applications found in the welding and fabrication industry.

Divided into four parts, Programmable Automation Technologies focuses on processes and systems used in industry. Comprehensive yet concise, this unique textbook provides a solid foundation of...

This practical text/workbook covers the fundamentals of installing, programming, and troubleshooting PLC-embedded systems used in industrial control applications.

Reliability Assessment: A Guide to Aligning Expectations, Practices, and Performance addresses the elements of reliability using a new and creative approach for the first time in one source....

Drawing on state-of-the-art research results, Resistance Welding: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition systematically presents fundamental aspects of important processes in resistance...

A great resource for companies interested in implementing a quick die change program, this book provides a step-by-step approach to retrofitting stamping equipment to reduce setup time.

The process of reverse engineering has proven infinitely useful for analyzing Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) components to duplicate or repair them, or simply improve on their design. A...

This book starts with the mechanics of a roll forming line; moves through new tooling technologies, equipment, and methods; and gives sound advice on how to avoid or solve common roll forming...

Roll forming is one of the most widely used processes in the world for forming metals. Most of the existing knowledge resides in various journal articles or in the minds of those who have learned...

If you're interested in learning more about sawing, lasers, thermal cutting, and waterjet cutting, this book is for you!

Sheet forming fundamentals are thoroughly addressed in this comprehensive reference for the practical and efficient use of sheet forming technologies. The principle variables of sheet...

This practical and comprehensive reference gives the latest developments on the design of sheet forming operations, equipment, tooling, and process modeling.

Sheet Metal Forming Processes and Die Design, Second Edition provides an expanded and more comprehensive treatment of sheet metal forming processes, while placing forming processes and die design in...

From the basics of CNC punching to JIT manufacturing, this book covers a variety of topics related to sheet metal punching.

Sheet Metal Stamping Dies is a valuable resource for anyone looking for detailed information about die design and the manufacture of stamping dies, particularly practicing die designers, press...

This text/workbook covers the layout, cutting, forming, and fabrication of sheet metal.

Engineers and reliability professionals are increasingly being held accountable for materials and spare parts inventory management and in response they need to gain a better understanding of...

SolidWorks for Technology and Engineering, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction for students. Little or no prior experience is needed to benefit from this liberally-illustrated work....

Solving Engineering Problems in Dynamics helps practicing engineers successfully analyze real mechanical systems by presenting comprehensive methods for analyzing the motion of engineering systems...

This practical, hands-on guide to SPC in the office and on the factory floor will benefit companies of any size. You'll learn how to set up a five-step implementation plan, how to develop and...

This reference presents the classical perspectives that form the basis of heat treatment processes while incorporating descriptions of the latest advances to impact this enduring technology. The...

This book explains the metallurgy of steel and its heat treatment for non-metallurgists.

Straightening Titanium Alloy Parts is a practical and proven guide that provides a foundation for determining causes and remedies for warpage in titanium alloy part fabrication

This practical guide provides an introduction for understanding the compositional complexity of superalloys superalloy and the wide range of alloys developed for specific applications.

This handbook summarizes key concepts and provides easy-to-use formulas, tables, specifications, and conversion charts. It is a must-have resource for those working in mechanical trades,...

Completely revised and updated, Technical Shop Mathematics, Third Edition of a classic best seller provides the algebraic, geometric, and trigonometric concepts essential to solving problems commonly...

This document has been extensively revised to include numerous new registrations, revisions to the previously registered product information, and the deactivation of the numerous obsolete products.

This practical textbook provides an overview of the safe, efficient, and practical use of common electrical test instruments for installation tests, process equipment operation, quality control, and...

In The Art of Welding, Ryan Friedlinghaus, the celebrated guru of automotive customization and cable TV star of Inside West Coast Customs, adds practical knowledge to William Galvery's acclaimed...

Now in its second edition and written by a highly acclaimed maintenance professional, this comprehensive and easy-to-understand resource provides a short review of all the major discussions going on...

The Metal Stamping Process was written by an expert with over 30 years of practical experience, and it has been used for years as the core reference for what is widely regarded as the premier...

The Toyota Way Fieldbook is your hands-on guide to the secrets of Toyota's success! Jeffrey Liker first revealed the management principles behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and...

Designed to support the need of engineering, management, and other professionals for information on titanium by providing an overview of the major topics, this book provides a concise summary of the...

This volume offers a thorough orientation to the principles of sheet metal pattern drafting and methods of pattern layout.

TPM Reloaded is a challenging, innovative and timely new look at implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) by one of the field's leading trainers and authors. The book takes into account the...

Trigonometry for Engineering Technology teaches the fundamentals or right angle trigonometry while also placing strong emphasis on examples from the field of engineering technology.

This practical textbook is designed for use in the electrical industry and by electrical training programs.

The Troubleshooting Electrical/Electronic Systems Workbook contains 27 activity-oriented Tech-Cheks and Trade Tests. Also included are over 140 worksheets based on nine sets of...

You'll get answers to basic tube fabricating technical questions, as well as learn about the latest tube fabricating techniques with this compilation of articles from The FABRICATOR® and TPJ-The...

This follow-up to Volume I is a compilation of articles published in The FABRICATOR® and TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® and papers presented at FMA- sponsored conferences.

Get the latest tube producing techniques from respected industry experts with this compilation of articles from The FABRICATOR® and TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® and papers presented at...

David Marusa wrote this book for managers and operators seeking instruction in laser cutting. In recent years the laser has emerged as an indispensable workhorse in many areas of metal...

The fifth edition of this classic aluminum welding textbook has been edited, revised and expanded to bring you refreshed chapters and numerous updates which reflect technological developments in the...

As a concise yet thorough introduction to the topic, this new edition of Welding Essentials makes welding easy for beginners and is a handy reference for professionals. Its unique, comprehensive...

By presenting a broad range of methods from different welding specialties and a brief, clear understanding of the non-welding knowledge nearly all weldors must have to advance in their trade, Welding...

This book offers real-life management techniques, a case study, and a sample management plan for welding managers.

This industry-leading textbook provides the essential welding knowledge and skills needed for successful employment.

The Welding Skills Workbook reinforces welding-related principles and offers practical exercises that help develop welding skills and promote critical thinking.

Welding: A Management Primer and Employee Training Guide will aid those in welding management with supervision and control of their welding operations, while offering apprentices and industrial...