Yusuf Altintas is current NSERC Pratt and Whitney Canada Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Director of the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of CIRP (1997), ASME (1998), SME (2007), Canadian Academy of Engineers (2007), Pratt and Whitney Canada (2008), University of Tokyo (2010) and Royal Society of Canada (2010). He is the author of the first edition of Manufacturing Automation: Metal Cutting Mechanics, Machine Tool Vibrations, and CNC Design (2000).

'… [this] book has the advantage of involving a quantitative coverage of the topics, something lacking in other similar books. The language is simple and clear, and so are the illustrations … certainly a good addition to the manufacturing engineering library.' Choice

• 1. Introduction; 2. Mechanics of metal cutting; 3. Structural dynamics of machines; 4. Machine tool vibrations; 5. Technology of manufacturing automation; 6. Design and analysis of CNC systems; 7. Sensor-assisted machining; Appendices: A. LaPlace and z transforms; B. Off-line and on-line parameter estimation with Least squares.

Yusuf Altintas is current NSERC Pratt and Whitney Canada Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Director of the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of CIRP (1997), ASME (1998), SME (2007), Canadian Academy of Engineers (2007), Pratt and Whitney Canada (2008), University of Tokyo (2010) and Royal Society of Canada (2010). He is the author of the first edition of Manufacturing Automation: Metal Cutting Mechanics, Machine Tool Vibrations, and CNC Design (2000).

'… [this] book has the advantage of involving a quantitative coverage of the topics, something lacking in other similar books. The language is simple and clear, and so are the illustrations … certainly a good addition to the manufacturing engineering library.' Choice

• 1. Introduction; 2. Mechanics of metal cutting; 3. Structural dynamics of machines; 4. Machine tool vibrations; 5. Technology of manufacturing automation; 6. Design and analysis of CNC systems; 7. Sensor-assisted machining; Appendices: A. LaPlace and z transforms; B. Off-line and on-line parameter estimation with Least squares.

Yusuf Altintas is current NSERC Pratt and Whitney Canada Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Director of the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of CIRP (1997), ASME (1998), SME (2007), Canadian Academy of Engineers (2007), Pratt and Whitney Canada (2008), University of Tokyo (2010) and Royal Society of Canada (2010). He is the author of the first edition of Manufacturing Automation: Metal Cutting Mechanics, Machine Tool Vibrations, and CNC Design (2000).

'… [this] book has the advantage of involving a quantitative coverage of the topics, something lacking in other similar books. The language is simple and clear, and so are the illustrations … certainly a good addition to the manufacturing engineering library.' Choice

• 1. Introduction; 2. Mechanics of metal cutting; 3. Structural dynamics of machines; 4. Machine tool vibrations; 5. Technology of manufacturing automation; 6. Design and analysis of CNC systems; 7. Sensor-assisted machining; Appendices: A. LaPlace and z transforms; B. Off-line and on-line parameter estimation with Least squares.