Focuses on functional, aesthetically pleasing, mechanically reliable, and easily made products that improve profitability for manufacturers and provide long-term satisfaction for customers. This title offers practical insight applicable to fresh product design and development projects.

This book details guidelines for the sand casting industry in using rapid tooling processes. Coverage includes sand casting processes, tool design and construction, sand casting dimension control, rapid tooling evaluation methods and decision making processes.

This concise and readable manual is a useful resource for anyone interested in the design of engineered products and equipment. The Design for Everything Manual integrates a wide range of "design for X" topics such as user-centered design, efficient design, design for manufacture, and coordinated product and process design into a unified "Design for Everything" approach that is easily understood and used regardless of technical background or training. Over the years, a wealth of practical design knowledge has been learned about how to achieve good design. This knowledge is captured by four...

This book details guidelines for the sand casting industry in using rapid tooling processes. Coverage includes sand casting processes, tool design and construction, sand casting dimension control, rapid tooling evaluation methods and decision making processes.