Provides single-source coverage on the full range of activities that meet the manufacturing engineering process, including management, product and process design, tooling, equipment selection, faciltiy planning and layout, plant contruction, materials handling and storage, method analysis, time standards, and production control. The text examines every topic involved with product and factory development, parts fabrication, and assembly processes.

The Handbook is intended to portray state-of-the-art procedures and concepts available to the aerospace design community for the conversion of advanced performance requirements into designs for reliable, high-strength parts. (Author).