• -October 17th, 2020-

    The American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has developed the standards that govern all geometric dimensioning and tolerancing that are used in the automotive industry on all engineering documents and drawings. ASME Y14.5-2009 is the most recent version of this specification. One of the most important roles

  • -October 17th, 2020-

    A process is a method of shaping, finishing or joining a material. Sand casting, injection molding, fusion welding and polishing are all processes. The choice, for a given component, depends on the material of which it is to be made, on its size, shape

  • -October 15th, 2020-

    The term Lean manufacturing refers to the application of Lean practices, principles, and tools to the development and manufacture of physical products. Many manufacturers are using Lean manufacturing principles to eliminate waste, optimize processes, cut costs, boost innovation, and reduce time to market in

  • -October 15th, 2020-

    Mechanics of materials, deals with the behavior of solid objects subject to stresses and strains. The complete theory began with the consideration of the behavior of one and two dimensional members of structures, whose states of stress can be approximated as two dimensional, and was then generalized

  • -October 15th, 2020-

    The charts in this article summarise material properties. Each chart appears with a brief commentary about its use. Background and data sources can be found in the book "Materials Selection in Mechanical Design" 3rd edition, by M.F. Ashby (Elsevier-Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2005). The material