Industrial Press 30th Edition Machinery's Handbooks

Overview

For more than 100 years, Machinery's Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and technical schools and colleges throughout the world. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice.

The 30th edition of the “Bible of the Metalworking Industries” contains major revisions of existing content, as well as new material on a variety of topics. It is the essential reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist.

New in the 30th Edition

• Expanded metrology section including v-blocks and micrometer, vernier, and dial calipers.
• New fluid power section covering pneumatic, hydraulic, and vacuum theory and applications.
• New powder metallurgy section, including additive manufacturing.
• Even more useful specs, including tap drill sizes for Unified threads, reaming allowances for drilling, standard mesh and grit sizes, rules for figuring tapers, and assembly with pins and studs.
• Includes recently added information on sheet metal and presses, keys and keyways, shaft alignment, taps and tapping, helical coil screw thread inserts, metric screw threads, miniature screws, fluid mechanics, solid geometry, statistics, calculating hole coordinates and thread dimensions, and distinguishing between bolts and screws.

Plus ...

• Numerous major sections have been extensively reworked and renovated throughout, including mathematics, mechanics and strength of materials, properties of materials, dimensioning, gaging and measuring, machining operations, manufacturing process, fasteners, threads and threading, and machine elements. Standards have been updated.
• The metric content continues to be expanded. Throughout the book, wherever practical, metric units are shown adjacent to the U.S. customary units in the text. Many formulas are now presented with equivalent metric expres­sions, and metric examples have been added.
• The detailed tables of contents located at the beginning of each section have been expanded and fine-tuned to make finding topics easier and faster.
• The entire text of this edition, including all the tables and equations, has been reset, and thousands of figures have been refined and redrawn.
• The page count has increased, by nearly 100 pages, to 2,896 pages.

CD-ROM Overview  

The Machinery's Handbook CD-Rom 30th Edition contains the complete contents of the print edition, presented in Adobe PDF format. This popular and well-known format allows viewing and printing of pages that are identical to those of the printed book, includes the ability to magnify the view of any page, and permits rapid searching of the entire Machinery’s Handbook. Navigation aids in the form of thousands of clickable bookmarks, page cross references, and index entries take you quickly to any page referenced.

The Machinery’s Handbook CD-ROM  also includes almost 1,000 pages of additional data, mostly material that was published in previous print editions but subsequently removed due to space restrictions. This includes additional indexes of the entire content, expanded tables of popular content, original material on many topics from previous print editions, and the entire contents of the companion book Machinery’s Handbook, 30th Edition, Guide.

Features:

• Displays text and graphics exactly as created.
• Contains zoom features for detailed viewing of any page.
• Features complete text searches to locate information quickly and easily.
• Includes interlinks to connect to related topics and examples, including a live index.
• Individual pages print correctly on virtually any printing device.
• As a bonus, cut and paste capabilities enable users to insert text and graphics into other documents and programs.

Minimum Requirements: Windows Operating System XP and later, including Windows 10, 32- and 64-bit • Internet connection for authorization • Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat.

For CD-ROM Upgrade:

Note: The CD-ROM Upgrade is a complete version of Machinery’s Handbook 30 CD that is offered only to registered owners of a previous edition CD-ROM. Owners of previous CD-ROM versions 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29 are eligible to purchase Machinery’s Handbook 30 CD at a substantial discount. Proof of ownership of a previous CD  version requires that a valid previous-edition CD Registration number be entered during program installation.