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Manufacturing subject guide 

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Sustainable Manufacturing Processes: The Coaching Method Enabling Companies to Innovate, Henk Akse, (2025)

This book presents a practical method for helping companies make their manufacturing processes more sustainable. It explores the technical, economic, and organizational challenges that hinder innovation and introduces a structured coaching approach that enables businesses to develop and implement their own sustainable solutions.

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Innovations In Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani and Masoud Jabbari, (2026)

Innovations in Advanced Materials and Manufacturing explores the properties, applications, and production of emerging materials such as nanomaterials, smart materials, biomaterials, and advanced composites. It also examines modern manufacturing techniques, including additive manufacturing and advanced processing methods, highlighting their role in developing next-generation engineering solutions.

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Engineering Drawing and Product Manufacturing Information with 3D Models: ISO Geometrical Product Specification Standards, Frank Mill, (2025)

Engineering Drawing and Product Manufacturing Information with 3D Models: ISO Geometrical Product Specification Standards provides a practical guide to engineering drawings, 3D CAD models, geometric tolerancing, and product manufacturing information. It explains ISO GPS standards and shows how digital product definition, metrology, additive manufacturing, and 3D model-based engineering are used to communicate design requirements throughout the manufacturing process.

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Digital Product Design and Manufacturing, Gheorghe Oancea and Panagiotis Kyratsis, (2026)

Digitalization concepts and methods have, in recent times, drawn the interest of researchers and academics, especially in design and manufacturing. Modern product design integrates advanced CAD/CAE/CAPP/CAM/PLM and computational tools as a means to automate tasks and increase the quality of the designed product, while reducing manufacturing cost and the time-to-market.

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Microfabrication and Nanofabrication: Precision Manufacturing, Kanak Kalita et al, (2024)

Microfabrication and Nanofabrication: Precision Manufacturing introduces the principles, materials, and technologies used to manufacture components at micro- and nanoscale dimensions. The book covers precision engineering, fabrication techniques, advanced materials, and real-world case studies, while also addressing sustainability and future developments in high-precision manufacturing.

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3D Printing Technologies: Digital Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Ajay Kumar et al, (2024)

3D Printing Technologies: Digital Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0 examines the latest developments in additive manufacturing, including 3D and 4D printing, bioprinting, smart materials, and AI-driven design and optimization. The book explores the applications of these technologies across engineering, healthcare, manufacturing, and other sectors, highlighting their role in advancing digital manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

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Machinery’s Handbook Guide: A Guide to Using Tables, Formulas, & More, John Milton Amiss et al, (2024)

Machinery’s Handbook Guide: A Guide to Using Tables, Formulas, & More in the 32nd Edition is a practical companion to Machinery’s Handbook that helps engineers, machinists, and students apply key formulas, tables, standards, and calculations used in manufacturing. It covers topics such as geometry, trigonometry, tolerances, materials strength, gears, machining processes, CNC programming, and measurement systems through worked examples and problem-solving exercises.

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Injection Molding: Advances in Research and Applications, Jose D. Phillips, (2024)

Injection Molding: Advances in Research and Applications explores recent developments in injection molding technology, covering materials, process optimization, simulation, design, and manufacturing applications. The book highlights emerging research and industrial practices aimed at improving product quality, production efficiency, sustainability, and the performance of molded components.

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Additive Manufacturing Handbook: Product Development for the Defense Industry, Adedeji B. Badiru et al, (2026)

This newly revised handbook is specifically tailored to focus on product design within the defence industry, a sector that significantly influences a wide range of other industries.

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Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods, Masoud Soroush and Richard D. Braatz, (2024)

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods examines how artificial intelligence technologies are transforming modern manufacturing systems. It introduces key AI concepts and methods, including machine learning, data analytics, automation, and intelligent decision-making, and explores their applications in process optimization, quality control, predictive maintenance, and smart manufacturing environments.

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IET Library eJournals

Materials and Manufacturing Processes (2001-present, one year delay)

Research on manufacturing technologies, materials processing, production methods, and operations management. It is aimed at researchers and professionals interested in improving manufacturing processes and industrial production.

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Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (1999-present)

Focuses on state-of-the-art research working at the interface of research and implementation. Areas include process design and control, decision making, supply chains, operations strategy, technology & quality management, and practice-based research.

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International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (1997-present, one year delay)

Research on computer-integrated manufacturing, digital production systems, automation, and the integration of information technologies within manufacturing environments. It focuses on improving manufacturing efficiency, productivity, and innovation through advanced technologies and systems.

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Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (2002-present, open access)

An open-access archive of the Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, providing free access to decades of research papers in materials and manufacturing engineering.

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Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing (2007-present, open access)

The Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing is a reputable open-access mechanical engineering journal that publishes research across design, manufacturing, systems engineering, and advanced engineering technologies.

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