Handbook Of Machine Shop Management

Excerpt from Handbook of Machine Shop Management The viewpoint selected in preparing this book is a bold departure from that which has governed revious works on shop management. This can be best shown by awing a parallel between machine design and shop-system design. In the field of machine design, we have many excellent handbooks which give fundamental data on the design of machine elements as shafts, bearings, gears, pulleys, clutches, and the like; but we have no book, aside from college text books, which purpose to tell the machine designer how to design a machine. That is, the machine designer uses no book that sketches a method, which begins per haps with the base, builds up the housings for the bearings, fits in the shafts, the driving pulleys, the gearing, and other operating parts to roduce a machine. The reason for this is obvious; the design 0 no two machines can be attacked in identical fashion, but fundamental data on design apply to all. This is the informa tion that the designer needs and seeks. Many books have been written on industrial and shop manage ment, but they have taken the viewpoint that the reader wished to be told how to design a system. The giving of fundamental data on the elements and mechanisms that entered that system has been a secondary consideration. This viewpoint while perhaps proper in the past is wrong today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Success in automatic assembly design and operation comes from an awareness and sensitivity to a multitude of small design details, and only Frank Riley could pack so much knowledge and experience into a practical and authoritative guide to the selection and application of automatic assembly machinery. A vast amount of practical information about all aspects of automated assembly can be found in this important revised edition.