Books published by Industrial Press Inc.,U.S.

This is the right book for users who liked the author's "Beginning AutoCAD" workbook and want to learn more about AutoCAD's features, including Xref, Attributes, and 3D solids. This clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text is totally updated for AutoCAD 2016 and 2016 LT, and it offers several new and improved features. All exercises are easy to print on standard 8 1/2" x 11" paper. For use with the PC version of AutoCAD 2016 only. New Features include ... - Start Tab page, containing two sliding content frames, Learn and Create, enabling you to quickly access recent drawing files, templates, product updates, and online resources. >Improved Features include ... - Enhanced Status Bar, giving you greater control of the tools you want displayed. - Isometric Grid Pattern now displays Lines instead of Dots. - Command Preview is enhanced to allow for Blend, Erase, Scale, Stretch, and Rotate commands. - Improved graphics with Line Smoothing and the display of perfect curves.

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to SolidWorks for students with little or no prior experience. It can be used in virtually any educational setting -- from four-year engineering schools to community colleges and voc/tech schools to industrial training centers -- and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual.

Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet that is exactly what is happening in maintenance organizations. How many times have clients told consultants, But weve always done it this way?!

This is the right book for users if they liked the authors ''Beginning AutoCAD'' workbook, or

This compact and unique reference provides those who deal with industrial machines a handy guide for assessing the potential risk of failure and offers a solid basis for reliable and safe machinery operation. Combining the most commonly used assessment tools into one source, it is meant to be taken into the field by operators, plant supervisors, maintenance personnel, and reliability professionals in order to make informed decisions about their equipment. This is the only reference available that assembles a body of sound operating practices. It includes guidelines for gauging machine maladies, such as vibration and pulsation. It provides guidelines for key machine factors, such as lubrication condition, temperature limits, alignment, and balance standards. It presents numerous relevant examples within each section aimed at helping readers understand the proper application of the various assessment methodologies.

The world-renowned workbook that has been teaching AutoCAD users for more than two decades is more engaging and relevant than ever. For those new to the world of AutoCAD, as well as those honing long-time skills, there is simply no better resource on the market than the Beginning AutoCAD 2019 Exercise Workbook.

Written for engineers, operators, and maintenance technicians in the power generation, oil, chemical, paper and other processing industries, The Valve Primer provides a basic knowledge of valve types and designs, materials used to make valves, where various designs should and should not be used, factors to consider in specifying a valve for a specific application, how to calculate flow through valves, and valve maintenance and repair. If you are involved in valve selection, specification, procurement, inspection, troubleshooting or repair, you will find a wealth of information in The Valve Primer. Presents information on a wide variety of valves and explains the operational basics of the thousands of valves that are found in power stations, refineries, plants and mills throughout the world.Includes over fifty illustrations depicting various valve types and how they operate.Contains valuable information the cannot be found in any other single source.  IntroductionGate ValvesGlobe ValvesCheck ValvesButterfly ValvesBall ValvesPlug ValvesDiaphragm ValvesMaterialsSizes, Classes, and RatingsFluid Flow Through ValvesValve Operators and ActuatorsControl Valves and Pressure Relief ValvesSelectionMaintenance and RepairMiscellaneous TopicsStandardsGlossary

Drawing upon the authors many years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries.

Shares the best practices, mistakes, victories, and essential steps for success which the author has gleaned from working with countless organizations. This resource includes check sheets, history of PM, stories, photographs, and case histories. It also provides sample task lists for a variety of equipment with some of the logic behind each task.

Finally, in a single volume, a reference that presents engineering-level information on press-working sheet metal, die design, and die manufacturing!

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With a fresh but comprehensive perspective on the subject of reliability management, this book challenges the reader to consider "what he has a right to expect" based on his reliability programs. It describes the programs and discipline needed if the reader desires the 'right to expect' a higher level of reliability performance.

Describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability. The authors explain the underlying philosophies where relevant, drawing on the teachings of the leading thinkers in leadership and management.

Suitable for mechanics, this book provides information, common sense tips, and methods and formulas. It offers the "how-to's"; along with the drawings, the formulas, and mathematical examples that address the "who", "what", "when", "where", "why", and "how" in several dozen realistic incidents involving alignment work.

Demonstrates how problem solving and process management is at the heart of continuous business transformation. Organized in four parts, this work introduces the reader to the domains of change and the process management body of knowledge; and gives instruction on how to creatively re-engineer processes.

Includes a complete Excel program for cost estimating tools and parts.

A comprehensive handbook and useful reference that provides access to the data, calculations, and equations needed for modern HVAC design. It details up-to-the-minute design methods, operation and maintenance procedures, and energy conservation and efficiency tools; and provides a single volume solution to a myriad of HVAC design needs.

An innovative book that centers on developing and measuring true Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), which as the author demonstrates, correlates with factory output and has a strong link to profitability.

Overview   This effective manual conveniently gathers together the necessary information required for solving a majority of gear problems.   Features   The first section contains tables and information on calculating gear rations, as well as tables of factors and involute functions. The second section covers subjects on spur and internal gears, while section three focuses on information pertaining to helical and spiral gears.

An intermediate text for students with an understanding of drafting and drafting tools, projection, and basic trigonometry. Focuses on the design of tools that hold or manipulate materials during other operations. Subjects include fixture types and applications; welding, machining and fabricating;

An abridgement of a 17-volume set of instructional materials, this guide offers brief descriptions of some 130 manufacturing processes, tools, and materials in such areas a mechanical, thermal, and chemical reducing; consolidation; deformation; and thermal joining. Includes numerous tables and illu

The properties of fuel oils. The possibilities and limitations of each grade. Methods which can be used to assure uniform quality and efficient combustion. Fuel oil impurities and how they affect combustion. How to diagnose and solve problems.

A series of gear-designing charts illustrating by simple diagrams and examples the solutions of practical problems relating to spur gears, straight-tooth bevel gears, spiral-bevel gears, helical gears for parallel shaft drives, helical (spiral) gears for angular drives, herringbone gears, and worm gears.

Discusses a range of manual and automatic measuring devices along with their specific functions and the specialized functions involved in their use. Analyzes the methods and duties of inspectors. Appropriate for use by inspection supervisors, plant managers, quality control engineers and subcontractors. Includes SPC and other data analysis methods for manufacturing applications. Provides detailed discussions of available measuring and quantitative systems. Compares important measuring and gaging systems.