This book covers the various advanced manufacturing processes employed by manufacturing industries to improve their productivity in terms of socio-economic development. The authors present automated conventional and non-conventional machining techniques as well as virtual machining principles and techniques. Material removal by mechanical, chemical, thermal and electrochemical processes are described in detail. A glossary of key concepts is attached at end of the book.

Kaushik Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. His areas of teaching and research interest are CAD / CAM, Quality Management Systems, Optimization, Non-conventional machining, Rapid Prototyping and Composites. Divya Zindani is a PhD student working on Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, CAD/CAM/CAE and Rapid Prototyping. J. Paulo Davim is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro. He has about 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology.