Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design

Wish it was a little more in-depth about some of the more complex processes, but overall a good beginner's guide to manufacturing and a good jumping off point for further research.

If you don't own this, you're missing out. I'm a mechanical engineer and I read this to discover new manufacturering techniques as well as learn how everyday things are made. Great book.

Really good, simple survey of realistic techniques, at a reasonable price. I am giving it less than full credit because it could have been more useful if it was just a bit more quantitative. But for a qualitative review of what each type of process does, it's great. Not a text on HOW to do these techniques however. It's sort of like a museum of manufacturing in book form.

bleah - glossy slick introduction to a seemingly random assortment of production processes, without enough detail to let the user understand the real limits and capabilities of the process, let alone actually accomplish it.

What an awesome book. This book would be great for just about anyone. Teens, college students, and even manufacturing professionals can garner a lot from all the great information. I never knew there were so many ways to manufacture products -- and that's my business!!

Just what I needed

Good book for design engineers or product managers.

Really amazing

The content in this book is well presented and fairly exhaustive. It's definitely more of a reference book than one you could read through but as a reference it's really great. My only small gripe is that some of the information is awkwardly or inconsistently laid out though it's only occasionally and it's not a big problem. It can sometimes be useful to browse through for inspiration or ideas.An excellent book for industrial/product designers with some great guidelines for a multitude of production processes. I would definitely recommend it to other designers to have on their shelf.

Less of a text book and more of a quick overview of lots of different techniques. I was hoping for a text book but what I got wasn't bad either. It does cover a massive range of manufacturing techniques though - some of which I hadn't heard of before.

Great book! Really useful for my university degree and beyond! Easy to read, and find information. No issues. Recommended for anyone in the art/design/engineering/ manufacturing industries.

Needed as reference on a design course great

Very interesting book. includes hundreds of different manufacturing processes, many of them I've never heard of. It is easy to read, however it is quite hard keeping the book open.