本书为英文版教材,是从近年来国外出版的20多本英文原版专著和教材中摘录、筛选后编辑而成的。
全书共分为三部分:**部分介绍了计算机在制造业中的作用,并对因特网的诞生、历史沿革和结构作了初步介绍;第二部分主要介绍CAD/CAM、数控加工、柔性制造系统、计算机集成制造系统和高速切削加工;第三部分是全书的**,系统介绍了近年来先进制造技术的几个主要内容——敏捷制造、快速原形制造、基于环境意识的设计与制造、纳米技术和微纳制造,以及生物制造等。为便于读者学习,在本书的每一章末都对一些疑难句子作了详细注释,并在书后附有总词汇表。
本书可作为机械制造及自动化、现代设计、仪器仪表、工业工程与管理、环境工程以及半导体器件制造等专业的高年级本科生的双语教材,也可用做其他相关专业人员的现代制造技术英文培训教材。

第三版前言
第二版前言
**版前言
Part I Computers in Manufacturing
1 Computer-aided Production and Control Systems
1.1 Automation Concepts
1.2 Computer Process Control
1.3 Management Information Systems
1.4 Engineering
1.5 Business
1.6 Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems
2 Internet
2.1 Services Supported by Internet
2.2 Who Uses the Internet?
2.3 Internet Origins
3 The Role of the World Wide Web (WWW) in Manufacturing
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Globalization for Customer Oriented Manufacturing
3.3 The Role of the World Wide Web
3.4 Global Collaborative Manufacturing and WWW
3.5 Web and Manufacturing Practices
3.6 Global Manufacturing on the Web
Part II Automated Manufacturing
Computer-aided Design and Computer-aided Manufacturing
4.1 Rationale for CAD/CAM
4.2 Historical Development of CAD/CAM
4.3 Computers and Design
4.4 CAD-to-CAM Interface
4.5 CAD/CAM Hardware
4.6 CAD/CAM Software
4.7 CAD/CAM Database
4.8 2-D Versus 3-D Software
4.9 CAD System Examples
4.10 Animation and CAD/CAM
4.11 CAD/CAM Selection Criteria
5 Numerical Control
5.1 Historical Background
5.'2 Computer Numerical Control
5.3 Principles of NC Machines
5.4 Types of Control Systems
5.5 Accuracy in Numerical Control
5.6 Advantages and Limitations of NC
5.7 Programming for Numerical Control
5.8 Machining Centers
6 Flexible Manufacturing
6.1 Historical Development of Flexible Manufacturing
6.2 Rationale for Flexible Manufacturing
6.3 Flexible Manufacturing System Components
6.4 The Hierarchical Nature of Production Control
7 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
7.1 Historical Development of CIM
7.2 The CIM Wheel
7.3 Benefits of CIM
7.4 CIM-related Standards
7.5 Group Technology and CIM
7.6 Process Planning and CIM
7.7 Computer-aided Process Planning
7.8 Manufacturing Resources Planning and CIM
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Part III Manufacturing Technology Facing the 21st Century
参考文献
世界**机械工程学会名录
总词汇表
AMT缩略语词汇表