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Download or read book Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded written by Geoffrey Boothroyd and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 300 equations and the extensive data, necessary to estimate manufacturing and assembly cost during product design, benchmarking, and should cost analysis, this textbook gives students modern and effective tools for analysing injection moulding, sheet metalworking, die casting, powder metal processing costs, sand and investment casting, and hot forging. It includes discussions of the influence of the application of design for manufacture and assembly, material selection and economic ranking of processes, the effect of reduced assembly difficulties on product quality, the links between computer-aided design solid models and design analysis tools, and more.