Materials Numerical Quantities-Forms Tables Compiled For The Metal Trade Are Dedicated To Vocational Schools As Well As To Practical Usage At The Job Site. Although The Tables Have Been Compiled For Use Primarily By The Apprentice, The Specialized Worker Will Also Find Them Useful. Every Effort Has Been Made To Shorten The Sometimes Tedious Operations And The Arrangement Of Subject Matter Is Such That Its Contents Are Readily Available To The Practical Man.Much Painstaking Effort Must Go In Compiling And Arranging Such Tables. Information Must Be So Selected That The Reader Can, From The Bulk Of Material, Easily Find Out The Subject Of His Interest. Often, A Decision Of Either Selecting An Item Or Rejecting It Proves Difficult. Too Much Material Packed Into Tabular Compilations Can Be As Harmful As The Omission Of Some Vital Pieces Of Information.Not Only The Selection But Also The Arrangement Of Material Requires Considerable Thought If The Contents Of The Tabular Compilations Have To Be Offered For Ready Reference. Only Then Can The Reader Decide Where To Look For Proper Information. The Principle Of Order Must Be Evident At Once.

Illustrated throughout, this book presents a summary of the Sheffield metal trades including a description of the processes involved and the special environment produced by the buildings of the industry. It also describes conservation issues.

Explores sectoral trends from 1970 to 1991.

A fascinating and informative survey of early metalworking trades. Each is covered in its own separate chapter: the blacksmith, whitesmith, edgetool maker, cutler, locksmith, wheelwright, gunsmith, nailer, and tinsmith. Introductory chapters describe and explain the blast furnace, forge, and iron foundry, processes that provided the raw material for the early metal trades. Quoting extensively from contemporary sources, Mr. Kauffman describes not only what was made, but also how it was made. Enhancing the text are more than 200 illustrations, many never before available. Here is the complete story told in straightforward words by an authority who has spent a lifetime working in, teaching, and writing about the early American metalworking trades. A valuable resource for the collector, practitioner, student, or anyone interested in American

This practical reference/text provides a thorough overview of cost estimating as applied to various manufacturing industries, with special emphasis on metal manufacturing concerns. It presents examples and study problems illustrating potential applications and the techniques involved in estimating costs.;Containing both US and metric units for easy conversion of world-wide manufacturing data, Estimating and Costing for the Metal Manufacturing Industries: outlines professional societies and publications dealing with cost estimating and cost analysis; details the four basic metalworking processes - machining, casting, forming, and joining; reveals five techniques for capital cost estimating, including the new AACE International's Recommended Practice 16R-90 and the new knowledge and experience method; discusses the effect of scrap rates and operation costs upon unit costs; offers four formula methods for conceptual cost estimating and examines material-design-cost relationships; describes cost indexes, cost capacity factors, multiple-improvement curves, and facility cost estimation techniques; offers a generalized metal cutting economics model for comparison with traditional economic models; and more.;Estimating and Costing for the Metal Manufacturing Industries serves as an on-the-job, single-source reference for cost, manufacturing, and industrial engineers and as a text for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students in cost estimating, engineering economics, and production operations courses.;A Solutions manual to the end-of-chapter problems is available free of charge to instructors only. Requests for the manual must be made on official school stationery.