Fabricating for dummies
Book - 2018
People have been hammering metal into shields, cookware, and ceremonial headdresses for centuries, and fabrication continues to be a popular and growing industry today. This book cuts through the jargon and provides you with the information you need to begin learning about metalworking, or fill any gaps in your existing knowledge in order to advance your career.
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781119474043
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Fabricating Truths
- Chapter 1. Manipulating Metal
- Defining the Processes
- Cuttingup
- Shearing specifics
- Slitting success
- Punching out
- Boarding the Bending Express
- Putting on the brakes
- Forming opinions
- Thinking progressively
- Spinning in circles
- Peeking at the Neighbors
- Touring the machine shop
- Wake up, it's time to get vertical
- Reviewing the Rest
- Thinking additively
- Casting away
- Forging partnerships
- Honorable mentions
- Embracing Mechanics
- Bearing witness
- Motoring about
- Controlling motion
- Mulling over the miscellany
- Chapter 2. Looking Back at Fabricating History
- Digging for Gold
- Pounding progress
- Hello, Bronze Age
- Pumping Iron
- Smelting success
- Steeling for progress
- Caring About Fabricating
- Admiring appliances
- Building tall buildings
- Cruising about with cars
- Heading out to sea
- Lifting off with aircraft
- Chapter 3. Getting to know Materials
- Pondering the Properties
- Touching on the Elements
- Reconnoitering the Metals Landscape
- Steeling history
- Carbon copying
- Alluding to Alloys
- Shining up with stainless steel
- Supersize me
- Tooling around
- Riding the Gravy Train
- Seeing red
- Playing with polymers
- Peeking Under the Sheets
- Part 2. Making Metal Fabulous: The Process
- Chapter 4. Cutting Up
- Eating Cake: Power Shears
- Lasing About
- Looking for problems
- Beaming up
- Do me a solid
- Peeking over the edge
- Firing Up
- Beholding the Gantry
- Watering Down
- "We want to pump ... you up!"
- Dirtying the water
- Nozzles, schnozzles
- Chapter 5. Bending Down
- Bending History
- Furiously folding
- Wiping around
- "Braking" Up Is Hard to Do
- Coming to terms with press-brake terminology
- Learning about the force
- Diving Into Dies
- Don't be pushy
- Diversity in dies (and punches)
- Backgauging the Bends
- Crowning Is King
- Calculating Conundrums
- Accommodating Potter
- Laying it all out
- Chapter 6. Stamping About
- Striking Gold
- Don't be sore
- Coffins to clutches
- Decompressing Presses
- Closing the gap
- Laid back
- Straight talking
- Picking Up the Lingo
- Taking Off the Covers
- On the fly
- Achieving happiness with hydraulics
- Along came the servo
- Feeding the Machine
- Being Progressive
- Let's pretend
- Done in one
- Chapter 7. Punching Out
- Punching Madness
- It's all about control
- A matter of form
- Exploring Operations
- Picking Your Station
- It's automatic
- More tools, please
- Getting a Grip
- Deciphering Dies
- Taking the Combo
- Chapters 8. Fabricating Odds and Ends
- Working Iron
- Coping isn't hard
- Drilling and more
- Rolling'Round
- A Booming Success
- Piping Up
- Keeping a schedule
- Let's go tubing!
- Buckle up
- Of saddles and fish mouths
- Squeezing in the Rest
- Fantastic forging
- Rolling your own
- One ring to rule them all
- Part 3. More Than Machinery: Digging in the Toolbox
- Chapter 9. Tooling Up
- Digging Metals
- Carbide; The tooling superhero
- Tool steel: Second best, not second rate
- Setting Standards
- Punching Through
- Aquick peek inside
- Keep it clear
- Keep it sharp
- Keep an eye on things
- Stamping and Stuff
- Donning a Smooth, Slippery Coat
- Wrapping Up
- Chapter 10. Welding: Putting It All Together
- Wondering About Welding
- Doing Me a Solid (State)
- Firing Up
- Arcing Across
- Marking the Spot
- Getting Gassed Up
- Shields up, Captain!
- A smarter of spatter
- In flux over flux
- Choosing a Good Joint
- Learning Safety with Jimmy
- Chapter 11. Automating with Robots
- Taking Robbie Apart
- Effecting change
- Teaching them a lesson
- Leaning on the Tin Man
- Pushing the limits with press brakes
- Feeding the factory
- Laying Down the Law
- Gaining Flexibility with an FMS
- Watching from Home
- Avoiding Bad Actors
- Chapter 12. Making Tools and Machining Parts
- Touring the Tool and Die Department
- The usual suspects
- I'll take the combo
- Facing the hard facts
- Justifying their existence
- Meeting a Few Machine Tools
- Turning terrifically
- Milling majestically t
- Staying Sharp with Cutting Tools
- Spinning'round: Rotary tools
- Hold still: Stationary tools
- Increasing Your Carbon Footprint with EDM
- Sink or swim
- Wired up
- Grinding Is Groovy
- Chapter 13. Going Soft(ware)
- Unraveling Difficult Acronyms
- Figuring Out File Formats
- Coloring in the Lines
- Abra-CAD-abra
- Rhymes with ham
- Going flat
- Why nests aren't for birds
- Modeling Reality
- Your high school industrial arts project
- The importance of a solid footing
- Staring at Clouds
- Eliminating Toolroom Chaos
- Designing with an Eye to Production
- Designing for manufacturability
- It's elemental, Dear Watson
- Herding the Shop Floor Cats with MES
- Chapter 14. Embracing QUALITY
- Giving a Rip About Quality
- Showing tolerance
- Dimensioning geometrically
- Confusing characteristics
- Internationalizing Your Standards
- Shopping for Tape Measures
- Touring the Inspection Room
- Gaging success
- Hello, Mr. Mic(rometer)
- Filling up the metrology lab shopping cart
- Letting Machines Do the Measuring
- Decisions, decisions
- Jumping at shadows
- That's a Wrap
- Chapter 15. Making Metal Farts Pretty
- Assessing Abrasives
- Wheeling About
- I'm Bond ... abrasive bond
- Let's get small
- Talking about Tools
- More power!
- Tools for the toolroom
- Working 'em Like Dogs
- Blasting Away
- Of glass, shells, and stones
- Getting all stressed out
- Finishing Up
- Part 4. The part of tens
- Chapter 16. Ten Techie Things to Know About Fabricating
- Joining the Revolution
- Cruising the Clouds
- Going Green
- Getting Lighter
- Getting Lost on the Paper Trail
- Cutting the Wires
- Viewing Machines Virtually
- Manufacturing Additively
- Embracing Automation
- Leaning Out Your Shop
- Chapter 17. (Almost) Ten Ways to Be a Better Fabricator
- Changing Things Up
- Adopting New Technology
- Marketing Your Business Vertically
- Shortening Setups, Increasing Uptime
- Maintaining the Machine (and Tools)
- Learning That Manufacturing Is Not a Dirty Word
- Becoming Certifiable
- Donning Some Cool Safety Shades
- Keeping Your House in Order
- Index