Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

I found as a new mechanical engineering graduate this has helped my understanding of manufacturing processes and how to use that knowledge to help my engineering designs. Very informative and well structured. One of the best textbooks I own (I have a large collection).

A mighty book that picks up where Chris Lefteri’s finish. How products and materials are formed, cut, joined and finished. For a product design to be successful you have to be able to make it, this book will help you design and develop for manufacture from the initial concepts. The descriptions are highly detailed and it is worth revisiting regularly.

Excellent value for £30. It's a huge book, and contains detail on a whole array of manufacturing processes. Great for anyone with an idea for a product who is unsure which materials or methods to consider for its manufacture.

Brilliant book. Being a student on a Product design course, I required something that told me about materials and manufacturing processes that the tutors just expect you to know. Everything in here is useful and is definitely going to play a key role in my final year and it will be my main source for reference. Furthermore, I feel it is better than Chris Lefteri's "Making It" although a good source of information, it doesn't go into the depth that Rob Thompson does. Highly recommended.

This book is a must have for any industrial designer or design student. It features a lot of manufacturing techniques with great descriptions and images. A must have!

This is a truly beautiful book which I am glad to own but I am not sure that it really delivers on its title so I have knocked a star off. Design professionals are surely going to feel there is not too much meat once they strip away the plumage. The plumage: High gloss paper, thousands of photographs, enough processes to populate an encyclopedia - which is really what this book is - and a heck of a lot of book design with boxed off coloured areas for technical descriptions and icons telling you the functions each process performs. The problems: - The manufacturing processes are actually treated rather superficially with coverage dominated by photographs. You could get similar depth of text from Wickipedia. You could get video of processes off Youtube. I am sure that the sellers of manufacturing equipment detail case studies for many/most of the processes. - The book is divided into essentially independent sections, one for each manufacturing process but there is little or no organizational material at a higher level. For example, if you know you want to mould a part in plastic then the book offers 17 possible processes, each described in its own section but there is no section with a title like 'molding in plastic' to guide you to a choice between the possibilities or to understand in depth the trade-offs. I feel a bit mean focussing on the drawbacks of a book I genuinely like. If it had only been called "Manufacturing Processes for the Design Professionals' Coffee Table", I could have given it five stars.

I am a product designer and this book did bring tears to my eyes, no kidding, i just felt like i could have done with such a book years ago ! what a treassure, thanks to the author , the best purchase of my life i dare say, very impressed. The huge volume covers any manufacturing process that you can think of in reasonoable depth, priceless!

I think that this book is a must have for any designer, it is so complete and exhaustive! It seems quite expensive but if you consider the number of pages, the format and the beautiful edition, you realize that it's very cheap.

I would like to see an update on the contents of this book

good explanations an illustrations

El libro es muy claro y de alta calidad. Tiene bien definidos los procesos de manufactura y los describe con sus aplicaciones, además de que aborda muchos materiales. La calidad es excelente, las hojas son a color y vienen plastificadas, entonces te ofrece colores muy vividos.

I graduated from mechanical engineering school about a year ago and got a job shortly after. If it's one thing I've learned, it's how grossly unprepared school made me for designing manufacturable parts and explaining manufacturing techniques in any sort of detail. Thankfully, this book fills the gap nicely. I'd consider this book an encyclopedia of virtually every kind of manufacturing technique out there. And the author explains things quite eloquently, in a concise and consistent manner. Thousands of diagrams and full-color photographs aid the explanations. Quick, at-a-glance facts about the different techniques tell you their costs and suitability for various situations. Perhaps most importantly, tons of case studies are scattered throughout which put real-world examples to the topics. I was a little skeptical after reading other reviews mentioning this book is only good for furniture design. That's not true. While certain manufacturing techniques are covered that may be mostly suitable for furniture design versus other, engineered parts, this book covers manufacturing techniques for engineers like casting, forming, and molding. To be honest I'm surprised such a high-quality book sells for only $50, considering I've easily paid twice that for books in college that weren't nearly as informative or helpful. I'm just sad I didn't find and buy this book months ago when I was struggling to research this information online (and trust me I never found a web site or web sites that compare to this book).

Very informative book. Highly recommend it as a reference book for anyone in design.