This book is a comprehensive engineering exploration of all the aspects of precision machine design-both component and system design considerations for precision machines. It addresses both theoretical analysis and practical implementation providing many realworld design case studies as well as numerous examples of existing component and their characteristics. Fast becoming a classic, this book includes examples of analysis techniques, along with the philosophy of the solution method. It explores the physics of errors in machines and how such knowledge can be used to build an error budget for a machine, how error budgets can be used to design more accurate machines.
Preface
Corporate Acknowledgments
Institutional Acknowledgments
Personal Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Precision Machine Design
Chapter 2 : Principles of Accuracy, Repeatability, and Resolution
Chapter 3 : Analog Sensors
Chapter 4 : Optical Sensor Systems
Chapter 5 : Sensor Mounting and Calibration
Chapter 6 : Mapping Geometric and Thermal Errors in a Turning Center
Chapter 7 : System Design Considerations
Chapter 8 : Bearings with Mechanical Contact between Elements
Chapter 9 : Bearings without Mechanical Contact between Elements
Chapter 10 : Power Generation and Transmission
Index
