Introduction to Manufacturing Processes--------------------------------------------------Michele Groover's first issue of Manufacturing Processes builds uponmuch of the content from his 4th edition, of Fundamentals of ModernManufacturing. The text incorporates design topics, balance quantitativeand qualitative coverage, offers most current information on latestdevelopments in the field, and makes the topic of manufacturing processesexciting with visualizing processes. The text also includes severalcase studies expanded upon online with related assessment content alongwith videos with related assessment questions. The text includes hottopics pedagogical elements with discussions ranging from lean manufacturingto green engineering to nanotechnology as well as an end chapter containingputting it all together systems analysis type exercises.