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The new fourth edition includes updated and expanded information on press brakes by Steven D. Benson and is ideal for use in classroom and on-the-job training...

Bending Basics is an A-Z comprehensive reference on the art of press brakes.  It is ideal for individual use or in classroom and on-the-job training programs.

This book on slitting is designed specifically to help slitting related personnel do a better job.

This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to make the most frequently used fittings.

The 2020 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications.

This handbook explains the various methods of brazing aluminum and includes charts and tables to help designers plan brazing operations.

Aluminum Standards and Data is the oldest, most popular and most comprehensive guide for producers and users of aluminum. This 250+ page book was created to make aluminum standards more accessible...

Volume 14A is the first of two volumes that covers the distinct processes and industries of bulk working and sheet forming. It provides comprehensive coverage and essential technical information on...

Volume 14B on sheet forming is the second of two volumes on metalworking technology. It addresses all methods of sheet metal fabrication technologies, selection of equipment and die materials,...

ASM Handbook, Volume 6: Welding, Brazing and Soldering is the most comprehensive reference book ever produced on the major joining technologies and their applications to engineered materials....

This one-stop reference is a tremendous value and time saver for engineers, designers and researchers who select and process aluminum and aluminum alloys. Covers all aspects of the selection,...

Carbon and alloy steels are the workhorse of structural materials in modern engineering because of their very reasonable costs coupled with their many and varied properties that allow their use in...

This is the best single-volume reference on the metallurgy, selection, processing, performance, and evaluation of stainless steels, incorporating essential information culled from across the ASM...

This handbook provides detailed and comprehensive information about the selection, processing, and properties of materials for machining and metalworking applications, including wrought and powder...

This guide features more than 20,000 alloy designations, including a complete listing of UNS designations for nonferrous alloys and comprehensive treatment of European and Japanese standards.

Completely revised and updated for 2008. Details cleaning methods for mill-finished, anodized, chemical-coated, painted, porcelain enameled, plated and laminated aluminum finishes. It

This book is your guide to coil processing technology.

Designed for operators, maintenance persons, and supervisors, this book provides helpful information on the purchase, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of cold pilger mills.

Designed for both the experienced estimator and the beginner, this book provides proven methods for improving your estimating skills, techniques, and procedures.

Digital Multimeter Principles covers the safe operation of digital multimeters (DMMs).

Electrical Math Principles and Applications demonstrates how electrical technicians use math on the job.

Electrical Principles and Practices is an introduction to electrical and electronic principles and their residential, commercial, and industrial applications.

Electrical Safety: A Practical Guide to OSHA and NFPA 70E ® is a comprehensive overview of electrical safety in the workplace.

Electrical Systems for Facilities Maintenance Personnel provides a detailed overview of facility electrical equipment and systems as well as the testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting skills used...

From the simple to the complex, just about every type of bend allowance problem you will ever encounter is covered in this book.

Indoor Air Quality Solutions provides an overview of indoor air quality (IAQ) problems, health concerns, measurement and testing, and how to maintain IAQ in institutional and commercial...

Industrial Maintenance and Troubleshooting has long been a trusted textbook for maintenance technicians. Real-world maintenance problems and solutions are depicted throughout the textbook, along with...

The Industrial Maintenance and Troubleshooting Workbook is designed to reinforce concepts and provide system information and activities that promote critical thinking and help develop maintenance and...

Industrial Mechanics is a comprehensive introduction to industrial mechanical principles, components, and circuits.

The Industrial Mechanics Workbook is a heavily-illustrated, comprehensive workbook that tests the learner on content presented in the text.

Best selling authors Michael Gelb & Sarah Miller Caldicott, great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, apply the best practices of this American genius to contemporary business situations to helpyou...

Instrumentation and Process Control is a technician-level approach to instrumentation and control techniques used in advanced manufacturing.

The Instrumentation and Process Control Workbook reinforces key concepts and offers practical exercises to promote critical thinking and to help learners apply these concepts in industrial...

Introduction to SPC is a handbook on the basics to help you understand how statistical tools can improve your processes and your bottom line by reducing waste in your operation.

An encyclopedic, A-Z listing of terminology, Loss Prevention and Safety Control: Terms and Definitions addresses the need for a comprehensive reference that provides a complete and sufficient...

Machine Trades Printreading presents a thorough foundation of the symbols, practices, and concepts used in prints created for manufacturing and machining processes.

The most comprehensive reference guide you can fit in your pocket. Includes sections of formulas, charts and tables, production standards and material data.

This book outlines the basic principles of metallurgical design of flat rolled steels to obtain flat steel products with required metallurgical and mechanical properties.

The completely revised Second Edition of Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist provides a solid understanding of the basic principles and current practices of metallurgy. The new edition has been...

Metallurgy Study Guide presents questions and trade tests to complement the text material.

Metallurgy is a comprehensive textbook on the material properties and behavior of pure metals and common metal alloys.

This revised and expanded Third Edition contains 21 chapters summarizing the latest thinking on various technologies relating to metalworking fluid development, laboratory evaluation, metallurgy,...

Occupational Safety & Health provides an overview of necessary safety practices, potential workplace hazards, and how various processes need to be managed in order to maintain a safe workplace....

An excellent reference manual for tube benders as well as engineers, designers, manufacturers, and fabricators, this book offers comprehensive, practical information about pipe and tube bending...

This book describes practical cost estimating principles, practices, and procedures; provides a noncomplicated, cost-effective, step-by-step method for cost estimating; and points out the pitfalls,...

Save money by improving your shop layout! This handbook will help you set up your shop to improve efficiency and production.

Practical Math is a text/workbook that covers essential math concepts and how they are applied on the job in agriculture, alternative energy, culinary arts, boiler operation, construction,...

This book contains step-by-step instructions for laying out patterns for round fittings. 

This instructor's guide correlates with the Precision Sheet Metal: Blueprint Reading textbook (PRABR3) and student's workbook (PRABR1) to present a step-by-step method for learning to read sheet...

The Student's Workbook correlates with the Precision Sheet Metal: Blueprint Reading textbook and provides practice and application.

This textbook presents a step-by-step method for learning to read sheet metal drawings.

This instructor's guide correlates with the textbook (PRAMA3) to present a step-by-step method for learning to read sheet metal drawings. A student's workbook (PRAMA1) is also available.

This workbook correlates with the textbook (PRAMA3) to provide practice and application. Instructor's Guide (PRAMA2) also available.

This textbook reviews basic mathematic principles and their applications to shop problems. It reviews addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, and...

Precision Sheet Metal: Shop Practice provides drawings of typical sheet metal parts, ranging from the most common to the most difficult.

Principles of Brazing is a valuable resource for those working with the brazing process or designing component joints. This book will help solve practical engineering challenges, by building on...

If you work with soldering processes or soldered components, Principles of Soldering will help you understand and solve practical engineering challenges. Clearly written and well referenced, this...

Printreading Based on the 2023 NEC® provides a thorough foundation for understanding drawings and concepts related to electrical printreading and includes important changes that appear in the 2023...

Printreading for Installing and Troubleshooting Electrical Systems covers the essential printreading skills needed to safely install and troubleshoot common residential, commercial, and industrial...

Printreading for Welders is an established text/workbook that presents printreading fundamentals, American Welding Society (AWS) welding symbols, and related printreading applications found in the...

Programmable Logic Controllers: Principles and Applications covers the fundamentals of installing, programming, and troubleshooting PLC-embedded systems used in industrial control applications....

Drawing on state-of-the-art research results, Resistance Welding: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition systematically presents fundamental aspects of important processes in resistance...

A great resource for companies interested in implementing a quick die change program, this book provides a step-by-step approach to retrofitting stamping equipment to reduce setup time.

The process of reverse engineering has proven infinitely useful for analyzing Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) components to duplicate or repair them, or simply improve on their design. A...

This book starts with the mechanics of a roll forming line; moves through new tooling technologies, equipment, and methods; and gives sound advice on how to avoid or solve common roll forming...

Roll forming is one of the most widely used processes in the world for forming metals. Most of the existing knowledge resides in various journal articles or in the minds of those who have learned...

If you're interested in learning more about sawing, lasers, thermal cutting, and waterjet cutting, this book is for you!

Sheet forming fundamentals are thoroughly addressed in this comprehensive reference for the practical and efficient use of sheet forming technologies.

This practical and comprehensive reference gives the latest developments on the design of sheet forming operations, equipment, tooling, and process modeling. Individual chapters cover all major sheet...

From the basics of CNC punching to JIT manufacturing, this book covers a variety of topics related to sheet metal punching.

Sheet Metal covers the layout, cutting, forming, and fabrication of sheet metal.

This practical, hands-on guide to SPC in the office and on the factory floor will benefit companies of any size. You'll learn how to set up a five-step implementation plan, how to develop and...

This reference presents the classical perspectives that form the basis of heat treatment processes while incorporating descriptions of the latest advances to impact this enduring technology. The...

This book explains the metallurgy of steel and its heat treatment for non-metallurgists, starting with the basics and then gradually introducing more complex concepts involved in heat treatment of...

This practical guide provides an introduction for understanding the compositional complexity of superalloys superalloy and the wide range of alloys developed for specific applications.

The Technical Reference Handbook is a must-have resource for those working in mechanical trades, manufacturing, or industrial environments.

This document has been extensively revised to include numerous new registrations, revisions to the previously registered product information, and the deactivation of the numerous obsolete products.

Test Instruments and Applications provides an overview of the safe, efficient, and practical use of common electrical test instruments.

The Toyota Way Fieldbook is your hands-on guide to the secrets of Toyota's success! Jeffrey Liker first revealed the management principles behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and...

This book provides a concise summary of the most useful information required to understanding titanium and its alloys. It reviews the significant features of the metallurgy and application of...

This volume offers a thorough orientation to the principles of sheet metal pattern drafting and methods of pattern layout.

Troubleshooting Electrical/Electronic Systems is designed for use in the electrical industry, electrical training programs, and related fields.

The Troubleshooting Electrical/Electronic Systems Workbook contains 27 activity-oriented Tech-Cheks and Trade Tests. Also included are over 140 worksheets based on nine sets of electrical/electronic...

You'll get answers to basic tube fabricating technical questions, as well as learn about the latest tube fabricating techniques with this compilation of articles from The FABRICATOR® and TPJ-The...

This follow-up to Volume I is a compilation of articles published in The FABRICATOR® and TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® and papers presented at FMA- sponsored conferences.

Get the latest tube producing techniques from respected industry experts with this compilation of articles from The FABRICATOR® and TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® and papers presented at...

David Marusa wrote this book for managers and operators seeking instruction in laser cutting. In recent years the laser has emerged as an indispensable workhorse in many areas of metal...

The fifth edition of this classic aluminum welding textbook has been edited, revised and expanded to bring you refreshed chapters and numerous updates which reflect technological developments in the...

This book offers real-life management techniques, a case study, and a sample management plan for welding managers.

Welding Skills is an industry-leading textbook that provides the essential welding knowledge and skills needed for successful employment.

The Welding Skills Workbook reinforces welding-related principles and offers practical exercises that help develop welding skills and promote critical thinking.