UNIT 1 1
Text A What is Manufacturing? 1
Text B The Production Turn and Types 6
Text C Management Can Make Manufacturing 10
UNIT 2 15
Text A Manufacturing Firms Face the Future 15
Text B Production Quality 24
Text C A Systems Approach to TQM 28
UNIT 3 34
Text A Roving Other Worlds by Remote 34
Text B Blue Collar Robots 42
Text C Designing Secure Intranets 45
Writing Guide I How to Write an Outline for a Seientific Paper 51
UNIT 4 52
Text A Getting a Hold on Mechatronics 52
Text B Progress in Metal Cutting and Machine Tools 61
Text C The Learning Company 65
UNIT 5 69
Text A Fundamentals of Manufacturing Accuracy 69
Text B Steps to Improvement 75
Text C Focusing through the Information Fog 80
Writing Guide Ⅱ How to Write an Abstract for a Scientific Paper(Ⅰ) 85
UNIT 6 88
Text A Principles of Newtonian Mechanics 88
Text B 2015 Vision 93
Text C Maintenance Strategies 99
UNIT 7 106
Text A Car Manufacturing: Lightening Steel 106
Text B Automobile and Art 116
Text C History of Automobiles 120
Writing Guide Ⅲ How to Write an Abstract for a Scientific paper(Ⅱ) 123
UNIT 8 125
Text A Fossil Fuel and Car Design 125
Text B Methodical Creativity 131
Text C Quality and Information Technology 136
UNIT 9 140
Text A The Electrochemical Engine for Vehicles 140
Text B The History of Internal Combustion Engine 150
Text C E-commerce:Net Profits 157
Writing Guide Ⅳ How to Write an Abstract for a Scientific Paper(Ⅲ) 162
UNIT 10 165
Text A The Flexible Engine 165
Text B CAD Meets CAE 175
Text C Automatic Control 178
UNIT 11 181
Text A Car-Design-And-Making Tendency 181
Text B Computer-Aided Automobile Design 188
Text C The Too-Flexible Factory 193
Writing Guide Ⅴ How to Write an Introduction to a Scientific Paper 198
UNIT 12 201
Text A Design for Manufacture 201
Text B Design for Manufacture and Assembly 206
Text C Hypermedia Information 214
UNIT 13 219
Text A Engineering Design 219
Text B Engineering Design(Continued) 226
Text C Product Development on the Web 231
Writing Guide Ⅵ How to Write a Conclusion or a Discussion of Results for a Scientific Paper 235
UNIT 14 237
Text A Leonardo da Vinci 237
Text B Reliability 241
Text C Visualizing Success 244
UNIT 15 249
Text A Industry Expectations of New Engineers:A Survey to Assess Curriculum Designers 249
Text B Industry Expectations of New Engineers:A Survey to Assess Curriculum Designers(Continued) 260
Text C Taylor to Toyota to Technology 270
Appendix Ⅰ Key to the Exercises of the Texts 275
Appendix Ⅱ Vocabulary List Corresponding to the Texts in Respective Units 279
Appendix Ⅲ Vocabulary List in Alphabetical Order for the Whole Book 322