Dear reader In your hand you have the second book from the series XXI Century Techno- gies. The first book under the title Manufacturing Technologies for Machines of the Future was published by Springer in 2003. This book is aimed at solving one of the basic problems in the development of modern machine-building working out of technologies and manufacturing equipment which would promote the continuous development and improvement of the final product design, rapidly adaptable to the requirements of the market as for the quantity, quality, and variety of products manufactured with the lowest...

Dear reader In your hand you have the second book from the series XXI Century Techno- gies. The first book under the title Manufacturing Technologies for Machines of the Future was published by Springer in 2003. This book is aimed at solving one of the basic problems in the development of modern machine-building working out of technologies and manufacturing equipment which would promote the continuous development and improvement of the final product design, rapidly adaptable to the requirements of the market as for the quantity, quality, and variety of products manufactured with the lowest...

This is a unique edition in a new format: a combination of text and video material in a book and accompanying CDs. The idea to produce a work to represent the bottom line of scientific and industrial development at the - ginning of the 21st century came from leading scientists. This book undertakes analysis, description, and development prognoses of machine-building technologies and production automation (including examples of basic research of the development and optimization of re- world production processes, as well as methods and results of experimental research and presentation of some...