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Contents
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Making a product
- 1.2 The manufacturing process
- 1.3 Component parts
- 1.4 What is manufacturing?
- 1.5 Product design specification (PDS)
- 1.6 A PDS checklist
- 1.7 Product form and function
- 1.8 Product design
- 1.9 Engineering or industrial design?
- 1.10 Marketing
- 1.11 Product value
- 1.12 Manufacturing processes: making things
- 1.13 Gears and gearing
- 1.14 Getting into shape: some basics
- 1.15 Scales of material structure
- 1.16 Classifying shapes
- 2 Casting
- 3 Forming
- 4 Cutting
- 5 Joining
- 6 Making the gearwheel
- 7 Surface engineering
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Table of hardness values
- Keep on learning
- Acknowledgements
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