Machinery’s Handbook is acknowledged as an exceptionally authoritative and comprehensive, yet highly practical, and easy-to-use tool. The 32nd edition of the “Bible of the Mechanical Industries” continues in this tradition, providing users with fundamental and essential aspects of manufacturing practices, including hundreds of ASME and ANSI standards updates and thousands of revisions to text, tables, equations, and figures.
The
Machinery’s Handbook Guide: A Guide to Using Tables, Formulas, & More in the 32nd Edition, is designed to maximize the enormous practical value of the latest, greatest edition of this invaluable engineering resource, offering useful information on how to make full use of the
Machinery’s Handbook in solving problems on the job.
New to the 32nd Edition- Additive Manufacturing: Expert discussions, exploring 3D printing materials, techniques, and workflow, have been updated.
- Dimensioning and Measuring: Reworked explanations and instructions cover calibrating, applying, and reading inch and metric verniers, dial and digital calipers, and inside, outside, and screw thread micrometers.
- Fasteners, Threads, and Threading: Definitive standard specifications for numerous screw threads, bolts, other fasteners, nuts and washers, tap and clearance drills, and more, have been verified and updated across the board.
- Machine Elements: Expanded sections detail drive couplings, shaft alignment methods, and friction and lubrication challenges, and rolling element bearings, with a new section on regulated food grade machine lubricants.
- Metalworking and Manufacturing: New expert coverage with detailed illustrations addresses commonly used metalworking dies, design, and selection, along with related processes and applications for sheet metalworking.
- Part Design and Production: Updates encompass the latest in CNC programming, CAD/CAM operations, and other design and production processes.
- Properties and Selection of Materials: Legacy elements and modern-day plastics data have been revised, with new information on embodied energy of materials, carbon footprint, recycling and reclamation, and polymer composites.
The Guide Features- This new edition of the Guide reflects the updated content of the new Machinery’s Handbook, 32nd Edition.
- Specific cross references help quickly locate information in the “parent” book, enabling Guide users to become familiar with navigating and utilizing the Handbook’s vast range of vital content.
- Offers more than 150 worked-out examples and nearly 500 practice exercise and review questions (with answers), specially selected for engineers, apprentices, and students, addressing problems commonly encountered in manufacturing and metalworking.
- Explains practical techniques, enhancing the user’s ability to access needed information and formulate solutions more quickly and easily.
Born 1881, died 1951.
Franklin Day Jones (1879–1967) was an author in mechanical engineering and toolmaking. He wrote the first edition of Machinery's Handbook (1914, Industrial Press), with engineer Erik Oberg.
Christopher J. McCauley is both an engineer and a prolific author.
