How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing, Volume 4
Welcome to How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing. This series provides detailed yet accessible information on the manufacture of a variety of items, from everyday household products to heavy machinery to sophisticated electronic equipment. With step-by-step descriptions of processes, simple explanations of technical terms and concepts, and clear, easy-to-follow illustrations, the series will be useful to a wide audience. In each volume ofHow Products Are Made, you will find products from a broad range of manufacturing areas: food, clothing, electronics, transportation, machinery, instruments, sporting goods, and more.
How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing, Vol.2
Welcome to How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing. This series provides detailed yet accessible information on the manufacture of a variety of items, from everyday household products to heavy machinery to sophisticated electronic equipment. With step-by-step descriptions of processes, simple explanations of technical terms and concepts, and clear, easy-to-follow illustrations, the series will be useful to a wide audience. In each volume ofHow Products Are Made, you will find products from a broad range of manufacturing areas: food, clothing, electronics, transportation, machinery, instruments, sporting goods, and more.
Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today's entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of "Makers" using the Web's innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent -- creating "the long tail of things".
The Economist - Special Report on Manufacturing & Innovation
The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
This second edition of the best seller, more than double the size of the previous edition describes manufacturing processes for approximately 1300 pharmaceuticals currently marketed as trade-name products around the world. Pertinent process information has been obtained from the patent literature, and references for other synthetic methods and pharmacology are cited. A 2000-entry Raw Materials Index will quickly tell you in which drugs the raw materials are utilized. A 12,000-entry Trade Name Index completes the book.
