Everything the apprentice or on-the-job professional needs to know about the intelligent and effecient operation of machine tools is here.

Features:

Now offers sections on numerical control, grinding wheels single point cutting tools and wear, basic drilling machine setups and formulas for estimating the power required for planning.
Gives greater attention to methods of setting up the workpiece on milling machines, horizontal boring machines, planners and shapers.
Includes more than 760 illustrations and 70 tables.