Part V: Part Manufacturing

The primary goal of Part V is to explore and cover part manufacturing. Manufacturing is a very large field. We focus our attention here on basic manufacturing including prototyping, machining, and injection molding. The goal is to provide the reader with some sense of what happens to designs after they leave the design department and how they become products.

Chapter 14 (Rapid Prototyping) covers the concepts of how to produce prototypes to evaluate designs. Chapter 15 (Numerical Control Machining) covers the concepts of machine tools and basic machining processes such as turning, drilling, and milling. Chapter 16 (Injection Molding) describes injection molding as another basic manufacturing process that is different ...

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