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Machine Tool Practices, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (April 1, 2019) © 2020

  • Richard R. Kibbe Oxnard College
  • Roland O. Meyer Lane Community College (Retired), Eugene, Oregon
  • Jon Stenerson Fox Valley Technical
  • Kelly Curran Oxnard College

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For courses in machine tool technology and processes.

The all-in-one solution for teaching machining, BPR, GD&T and CNC courses

Machine Tool Practices provides clear, practical and richly illustrated treatment of machine tool technology, while preparing students for NIMS certification. This is the definitive text for training computer numerical controllers, conventional machine operators, general machinists, and tool and tie makers.

The 11th Edition includes expanded content and supplements on blueprint reading, GD&T and CNC. New coverage on the machinist's role in the shop and in ISO 9001:2015 builds students' familiarity with typical roles and responsibilities.

Hallmark features of this title

Features and rich illustrations with tips and techniques

  • Extensive use of hundreds of color photographs provides students with views of actual machining operations.
  • Graphic explanations highlight important concepts, common errors and difficulties encountered by machinists.

Learning aids

  • Shop Tip and Shop Tip Craftsmanship boxes offer tips and techniques to help students become intuitive machinists.
  • End-of-unit self-tests gauge student mastery of the material.

New and updated features of this title

Comprehensive coverage of basic machine tool technology and related subjects

  • REVISED: Content on blueprint reading, GD&T, and CNC machining and programming has been rewritten or significantly expanded.
  • UPDATED: Separate units for CNC machining centers and turning centers are incorporated, with emphasis on programming and canned cycles.
  • EXPANDED: Information on speeds and feeds, machinability and carbide tooling, and toolholder specification and selection has been expanded and improved, making it easier to learn and apply this crucial knowledge.
  • EXPANDED: The units on quality, including statistical quality control and calibration, have been added and the content improved.

Practical applications

  • EXPANDED: Many more exercises, worksheets and PowerPoint™ slides, available for free download, complement material on blueprint reading, GD&T and CNC, rounding out a comprehensive curriculum.
  • NEW: The machinist's role in the shop and in ISO 9001:2015 is now covered, building students' familiarity with typical roles and responsibilities.

SECTION A
1. Careers and the Machinist's Role in Process Plans
2. Manufacturing Competitiveness and Improvement
3. Shop Safety
4. Threads and Fasteners
5. Blueprint Reading Fundamentals
6. Views and Line Types
7. Dimensions, Tolerances, and Fits
8. Fundamentals of GD&T
9. Geometric Tolerancing

SECTION B: HAND TOOLS
1. Arbor and Shop Presses
2. Work-Holding and Hand Tools
3. Hacksaws
4. Files
5. Hand Reamers
6. Identification and Uses of Taps
7. Tapping Procedures
8. Thread-Cutting Dies and Their Uses
9. Off-Hand Grinding

SECTION C: DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT
1. Measurement and Common Measuring Tools
2. Systems of Measurement
3. Using Steel Rules
4. Using Vernier, Dial, and Digital Instruments for Direct Measurements
5. Using Micrometers
6. Using Comparison Measuring Instruments
7. Using Gage Blocks
8. Using Angular Measuring Instruments
9. Quality in Manufacturing
10. Statistics in Manufacturing

SECTION D: MATERIALS
1. Selection and Identification of Steels
2. Selection and Identification of Nonferrous Metals
3. Hardening, Case Hardening, and Tempering
4. Annealing, Normalizing, and Stress Relieving
5. Rockwell and Brinell Hardness Testers

SECTION E: LAYOUT
1. Layout Tools
2. Basic Semiprecision Layout Practice
3. Basic Precision Layout Practice

SECTION F: PREPARATION FOR MACHINING OPERATIONS
1. Machinability and Chip Formation
2. Speeds and Feeds for Machine Tools
3. Cutting Fluids
4. Carbide Tooling Specification and Selection

SECTION G: SAWING MACHINES
1. Types of Cutoff Machines and Safety
2. Using Horizontal Cutoff Saws
3. Preparing a Vertical Band Machine for Use
4. Using a Vertical Band Saw

SECTION H: DRILLING MACHINES
1. Drill Press Fundamentals
2. Drilling Tools
3. Hand Grinding of Drills on the Pedestal Grinder
4. Operating Drilling Machines
5. Countersinking and Counterboring
6. Reaming in the Drill Press

SECTION I: TURNING MACHINES
1. Engine Lathe Fundamentals
2. Toolholders and Toolholding
3. Cutting Tools for the Lathe
4. Lathe Spindle Tooling
5. Operating Lathe Controls
6. Facing and Center Drilling
7. Turning between Centers
8. Alignment of Lathe Centers
9. Other Lathe Operations
10. Sixty-Degree Thread Information and Calculations
11. Cutting Unified External Threads
12. Cutting Unified Internal Threads
13. Cutting Tapers
14. Using Steady and Follower Rests
15. Additional Thread Forms
16. Cutting Acme Threads on the Lathe

SECTION J: VERTICAL MILLING MACHINES
1. Vertical Milling Machines
2. Cutting Tools and Cutting Tool Holders for the Vertical Milling Machine
3. Setups on the Vertical Milling Machine
4. Vertical Milling Machine Operations
5. Using an Offset Boring Head

SECTION K: HORIZONTAL SPINDLE MILLING MACHINES
1. Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines
2. Types of Spindles, Arbors, and Adapters
3. Arbor-Driven Milling Cutters
4. Work-Holding Methods and Standard Setups
5. Machine Setup and Plain Milling
6. Using Side Milling Cutters

SECTION L: GRINDING AND ABRASIVE MACHINING PROCESSES
1. Types of Grinders
2. Selection and Use of Grinding Wheels
3. Setup of Surface Grinders
4. Using a Surface Grinder
5. Cylindrical Grinding
6. Using a Cylindrical Grinder
7. Universal Tool and Cutter Grinder

SECTION M: COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL AND OTHER ADVANCED MACHINING PROCESSES
1. Fundamentals of Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
2. Fundamentals of Machining Centers
3. Fundamentals of Programming Machining Centers
4. Programming Examples
5. Programming Canned Cycles for Machining Centers
6. CNC Turning Machines
7. Programming CNC Turning Centers
8. Programming Canned Cycles for CNC Turning Centers
9. Advanced Machining Processes

About our authors

Jon Stenerson served an apprenticeship in toolmaking with Mercury Marine and was an instructor in the Machine Tool Program at Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) in Appleton, WI. An industry consultant, Jon is the author of textbooks in the fields of machining, CNC programming and industrial automation. He has a BBA from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and a master's degree in vocational education from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Kelly S. Curran grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he started working in machine shops at a young age. Mr. Curran has considerable machine shop experience as well as industrial teaching experience. He is the author and coauthor of several publications in the machine tool manufacturing field. Mr. Curran has spent many years developing a self-paced machine tool curriculum for the State of Wisconsin and Fox Valley Technical College. He holds a bachelor's degree in career, technical education and training from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, an associate of applied science degree with an emphasis in machine tool from Ferris State College, and an associate of applied science degree with an emphasis in business from Northern Michigan University.

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