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Here's a little list of best-sellers on Amazon and a few from this thread:
An Essential Reading List For Designers
Source: www.tomfaulkner.co.uk
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Architecture
Communication Design
Fashion Design
Angela ButtolphEditors of Phaidon ?Furniture Design
Game Design
Graphic Design
Information Design
Industrial Design
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I haven’t actually read this book but this sounds close to what your looking for.
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Processes-Design-Professionals-Thompson/dp/0500513759
Manufacturing processes for design professionals gives a nice overview on just about every kind of manufacturing process there is, though it's a bit expensive and kind of a brick.
https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Processes-Design-Professionals-Thompson/dp/0500513759
Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)
Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel
Engineerguy's Youtube Channel
Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel
mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel
Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel
Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel
NYCNC's Youtube Channel
Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel
History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds
Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury
A History of Machine Tools by Bradley
Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum
A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume
Tools and Machines by Barnard
The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley
Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort
Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard
A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray
Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982
Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes
History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko
Rust: The Longest War by Waldman
The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer
Optical Shop Testing by Malacara
Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos
Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King
Advanced Machine Work by Smith
Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich
Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam
The Martian: A Novel by Weir
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute
Cosmos by Sagan
Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.
Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall
Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc
The Intel Trinity by Malone
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson
A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding
Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling
Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy
Precision Engineering by Evans
Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick
Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith
Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman
Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou
American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.
Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop
Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin
Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick
CNC Programming Handbook by Smid
Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.
Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch
Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor
Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe
Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold
Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi
Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith
I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting
I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.
American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley
Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik
Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling
Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt
[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()
English and American Tool Builders by Roe
Machine Design by Norton
Control Systems by Nise
That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500513759?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
I just bought this as someone in a similar boat and would highly recommend
This
is my textbook for Manufacturing Materials and Processes class. Seems pretty good.
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0500513759/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_oddCCb7DXE0BV
This is my bible.
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals is another great reference, but somewhat less specific than what you asked for. It lists a lot of forming-, cutting-, joining- ánd finishing technologies, each of them explained (and compared) in quite some detail and accompanied by a real-world example. Those examples are presented as series of step-by-step photos, taken at quality production locations. This is one of my favourite references as an Industrial Design student!
On this note, I found this book to be much more effective than Making It:
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Processes-Design-Professionals-Thompson/dp/0500513759
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals, by Rob Thompson.
Very in depth, and covers more topics of manufacturing than Making It. Excellent examples and pictures too!
Unfortunately "manufacturing" is highly segmented, and while there are prototype shops you need to know what process(es) you're going to use, then select the manufacturer who might also provide a prototype or refer you to a prototype shop (there are issues there too... but that's another story).
Of course you could do 3D printing for the prototype (or production too, depending on many factors).
You can educate yourself with this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500513759/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and it would be good for you to attend one of these shows: https://www.d2p.com/
My personal favorite is Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals, which is sort of an overview and simultaneous deep dive into pretty much ever manufacturing process out there and how to design for it.
I'm in a similar position. I'm working on a PhD in Electrical Engineering, so that boat has pretty much sailed for me. I LOVE manufacturing processes and design. I hear these two books are good:
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
and
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
I might want to do a post of my own to see if I can get some advice for myself. Does anyone have ideas of how I can get into product design? I'm interested in things such as those that are posted on Yanko Design.
My top 3:
Just came across this one, but haven't read it yet:
Sure! Industrial Design is quite hard (imo) to learn from purely free resources online etc. I would suggest learning some form of CAD software through tutorials online. SolidWorks is a big one however if you'd like to learn the basics for free then Google SketchUp isn't too bad. As for the other aspects, learn about manufacturing processes (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manufacturing-Processes-Design-Professionals-Thompson/dp/0500513759 is a great book), sketch sketch sketch and develop an understanding of the breakdown of products. Also check out websites like Core77.
I know I've waffled on and probably missed the point. But hopefully that helps! I'd certainly recommend doing some sort of course at a local college if possible!
There are a number of questions you need to ask yourself when building a physical product. Here a few to start with
3D printing can be good to in making prototypes and validate if people it in the first place.
Here are some good books basic books to learn about product design.
An option is also to hire a design firm to help make the design possible for you to manufacture. However, you will still have to pay all the other costs.
I enjoyed The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman which everyone seems to recommend for designers of all types from UI to ID.
I haven't looked at any of the others suggested for materials but I was very surprised at how good Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals was when I was looking through it last week, it's full of images and diagrams and does a great job of going over things. Much more interesting than this book which I used in Man. Tech.