(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best industrial manufacturing general books

This probably isn't the most helpful answer, but any resources I might have used to learn the fundamentals myself are probably pretty outdated now. Honestly I'd just try to find highly rated books on Amazon that are reasonably priced. I haven't read this one for psych research methods, but looking through the table of contents, it covers a lot of what I'd expect (ethics, validity and reliability, study design and common methods) and according to the reviews it's clear, concise, and has good stats info in the appendix. I had a similar "handbook" style textbook in undergrad that I liked. For practicing stats, I'm personally more of a learn-by-doing kind of person, and there are some free courses out there like this one from Khan Academy that covers the basics fairly well.

But if you can, take courses in college as electives! Chances are you'll have a few to fill (or maybe audit some if you can't get credit), so go outside of HCDE's offerings to get some complementary skills in research or design. I usually find classrooms to be more engaging than trying to get through a textbook at home on my own, and especially for psych research methods, you'll probably have a project that gives you hands-on experience doing research with human subjects (most likely your peers). There are lots of free online courses out there as well if you aren't able to take them for credit.

You guys are making me miss school.

Getting specifically into UX self-study, in addition to a UX-specific research methods book (this is a newer version of one I read in school) I'd also go through the UX classics like Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things and Emotional Design, Krug's Don't Make Me Think, and Casey's Set Phasers on Stun (this last one being more of a fun read than a practical one).

If you plan to create GD&T on drawings (as opposed to interpreting GD&T already on a drawing) you should get the actual GD&T book - mine is the "ASME Y14.5M-1994 Dimensioning and Tolerancing". You'll want the 2009 version. I kept a lot of my engineering textbooks from college; decades later what I keep out for quick reference is a machinery's handbook and my GDT manual.

The 'thrilling GDT textbook' you bought looks fine - co-authored by ASME. But I've never seen it so don't know how dry it is. Dry or not, you should just go to source. Go get an actual GDT book, not one written about GDT by someone.

I've been designing and detailing for 3 decades and still love it. Imo you need to be all about details in this profession. The person creating (and nowadays checking) the engineering drawing needs to be detail oriented. If you aren't then take a good look now. Yes you can force yourself to learn all this GDT stuff, but it's the language of engineering drawings.

I got off the rails a bit there, but all true. If I have any wisdom to share it is this - pick a career field that you love and are passionate about. 1/3 of your life is sleep, 1/3 of your life (weekdays) is work, 1/3 of your life is 'free-time'. Being miserable for the work 1/3 of your life spills into the rest of your life too - be happy and good luck.

Edit - the link above is to the 1994 version. I think this is the 2009 version, it's not cheap but it is the source.

Eidt II - sorry, I don't mean to dissuade you. Learning GDT from a textbook must be dry and eye-crossing. I learned in-person by an excellent teacher so it was engaging. If it will help you, I wrote a GDT intro paper like 5 years ago.

Hi!

Thank you so much for all your thoughtful responses!! =D

At the moment I'm focusing on trying out to see if I would like to/would be able to work in the field of food science developing food products..I'm unable to move at the moment & live in a country where English isn't the main language,with very little money,so going to college is not an option right now & if I could somehow get the funds then I could only manage half time or less (as things are now) . So that has left EdX & textbooks as my only free options (that I'm aware of)

Thanks for the book suggestion.My uni library used to have it & then they threw it out because not many people borrowed it =( .What websites do you recommend (I live in the EU so shipping from Amazon can be an issue)

It would be great if you could list the other foundational courses.

I'm going to look into a foundation degree, does anybody have experience doing a food science one?

How can I work towards taking those collegiate courses? (I thought almost all college courses needed a high school graduation certificate,which I don't have,I only have a GCSE equivalent which is similar to Year 11y taken at 16 year olds)

Thanks for the PDF!

I borrowed :

Food Science and Technology 1st Edition https://www.amazon.com/Food-Science-Technology-Geoffrey-Campbell-Platt/dp/0632064218/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537130232&sr=1-1&keywords=food+science+and+technology+campbell-platt from the library but it was extremely complicated & put me off a bit & made me realize I really need the basics.I'm unsure what level the book is for.

A study buddy/other would be helpful for motivation & for when I get stuck & Google is of no help & to get an idea of what its actually like to work in the field.

I hope I made my situation clearer,so you can understand what I'm looking for/what could work for me.I'm trying to find out my options so that I can decide what is the best way forward without wasting time learning things that won't be useful.. (& any basic relevant Food Science information from textbooks I learn now would be helpful to get through any food science course more easily)

If I find that I love food science & want to pursue a career in it then I hope to find a way to get a Bachelor's degree.How did you know that food science was the area of studies/job for you ? What events made you sure/unsure that food science suited you ?

Thanks!

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PS: Is there a chat for Food Science on Reddit,searched but didn't find any?

Wow this is really interesting. FYI I'm a mechanical engineer who works in R&D designing suspension parts for a major automotive manufacturer in North America.

In order to best answer you, can you provide some insight into your background? Are you a freshmen engineering student in college? Are you a high school student with engineering aspirations? Or just a guy that likes to tinker with this stuff. Depending on what your answer is, I can better provide additional information/resources so that you can learn more.

Overall, I'm really impressed. I think your proof of concept is really great. I also noticed you're selling the kit.

Here are some general tips

• In order to improve the design of the structure, you need to understand the load inputs on the assembly. Engineers use a method called free body diagram. For forces acting in a 2D plane, it's very simple to analyze.
  
• There are a few primary modes of loading: tension/compression, bending, and torsion
  
• Your assembly is made of multiple 2 force members. These are typically under uniaxial loading. What this means is that the only forces acting on the 2 force member are aligned along the direction of the arm, which means the arms are loaded in either tension or compression.
  
• McMaster-Carr is a great place to source parts for projects like this. They have a huge selection, reasonable prices, allow you to buy in small quantities (some places require bulk purchases of a 50pk even if you only need 1). They provide 2D drawings for nearly all their parts. They also provide 3D Solidworks files.
  
  Is the arm only designed to hold the sharpie pen and draw shapes or do you expect your customers to perform other actions with the finger? Holding a sharpie is incredibly light load and really only needs to be strong enough to support the weight of the assembly.
  
  Here is my feedback
  
  
• I watched the video and I'm curious why you think the arm needs to be more rigid. The motion of the robot is very slow; it seems smooth. There doesn't seem to be much compliance(the inverse of stiffness). It looks like the biggest source comes from the loose sharpie holder. You can use hose clamps or any other variety of clamps to hold the pend tightly.
  
• I noticed the material seems to be balsa wood? stiff cardboard? What was the basis for material selection? cost? weight? machinability? Before I saw the video, I thought about replacing the arms with really thin sheet metal something like 0.049" thickness. I'd have to do the math to see what thickness would be needed to achieve the same weight, but your weight/strength ratio would increase. Something to keep in mind if you want to do something that requires increased loading.
  
• There are a few simple things you can do that would really "refine" the product.
  
  
• Reduce the length of the finger bolts so they don't stick out that far. You only need 2 additional threads beyond the nut.
  
• Consider using thin nylon locknuts.
  
• Consider using socket bolts, they are smaller than the large hex bolts you're currently using.
  
• I noticed you're seem be stacking rings in several areas to achieve the desired thickness. You might be able to achieve the same effect using standard spacers.
  
• Especially in the arms, you could probably eliminate the forearm brace if you replaced the spacers with a single spacer (again this is because these members are 2 force members and won't experience bending or torsion). Here is a poor example of what I mean
  
• I noticed ball bearings were used in the base and the bicep. This seems like unecessary weight and over designed for the requirements. It's also strange in this application. Typically bearings are press fit into other metal parts and require extremely tight tolerances +/-0.0005", which requires precise machining. The laster jet/water I used on aluminum had a tolerance of +/-0.020". It would be event worse with balsa wood. Also, you use 4 bearings in the bicep. that span along multiple parts. Typically a bearing outer/inner race contact the surface of a single part. If long span is required, they can be pressed into a collar and the parts can slide onto the collar. You can reduce the number of bearings from 4 to 2 by using a spacer between the outermost two bearings. Like this picture. Furthermore I believe you could eliminate the bearings altogether** Consider using sleeve bushings or bearings.
  
• Add fillets in any place you have a circular shape that transitions to a straight edge, even if it's a 1mm fillet for some of the smaller parts but maybe 10 to 50 for some of the larger parts like bicep-A. This is good practice and will reduce stress concentration
  
• If you want to learn more about design for manufacturability pickup a copy of Machinery Handbook. It's the BIBLE.
  
  That's all I have for now. I may add more later. I didn't mention anything regarding stiffness because I think there are other areas that can be improved that will yield more refinement. The structure doesn't seem to suffer from compliance, but we can discuss that in a followup post. Also many people have already provided information regarding this.

It should be noted that, as far as I know, the RB5X is not for sale by the manufacturer any longer. Bits and parts may still be available, but the entire unit is very doubtful - despite whatever the website for it may say or look like.

They started to "close up shop" probably almost a decade ago, if not more. That site is mainly a "shell" - but lots of fun stuff to look at. In fact, there's enough info and photos available on the site that you could (in theory) build your own version of the RB5X.

Years ago I did an interview with David L. Heiserman, about his robots and his books on robotics he wrote. The interview text isn't available right now (my website is currently in a state of limbo), but one thing he told me was that the RB5X was basically a licensed version of his "Rodney" robot, from his book "How to Build Your Own Self-Programming Robot":

https://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Your-Self-programming-Robot/dp/0830612416

It should be noted that the algorithms used in that book are pretty much followed up in a couple of his other books:

"Robot Intelligence - with Experiments"

https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Intelligence-Experiments-David-Heiserman/dp/0830611916

...and:

"Projects in Machine Intelligence for Your Home Computer"

https://www.amazon.com/Projects-Machine-Intelligence-Your-Computer/dp/0830613919

Both of these books delve deeper into the same logic used in Rodney, but done in BASIC; they could be easily adapted to Python, Javascript, or C/C++ if one wanted. The programs were designed to be run on a home computer of the era, where the "robot" was represented as a "dot" on the screen, and interacting with other "objects" on the screen - ie, a very primitive robotics simulation environment, more or less.

An Arduino would be more than capable of running the algorithms, but a larger microcontroller or embedded processor would be a more suitable choice - if you wanted to translate them into something that could control actual robot hardware, to make your own "RB5X" like robot.

A simple such machine could be made using a roomba as the base, a concrete form tube for the body, and maybe a salad bowl for the head (if you can't find a low-cost acrylic hemisphere). A ring of ordinary ultrasonic modules could act as the sensors, and bump sensors would be easy enough to implement. You could also opt for any number of other kinds of sensors (SharpIR, an old Neato LIDAR, maybe a Kinect).

It's a project I've long contemplated, but have never actually moved to implement. I think it would be neat to see it done.

If you want a serious information on the topic I can recommend a few things that I found useful:

1. Wohlers Report by Terry Wohlers
   
   
2. Additive manufacturing technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing by Ian Gibson, David W. Ronsen and Brent Stucker
   
   
3. ASTM F42 Terminology standards
   
   Those things cost a pretty penny but they also contain the kind of information that would let you get a job in the industry. One thing to keep in mind that most of these technologies are several decades old and so you can get 95% of the relevant information out of a ten year old book if you just keep up with news. That becomes a much easier task when you stop using the phrase 3d printing, which has been hijacked by the popular media, and start using more technical and precise terms like Directed Energy Deposition or Vat Photopolymerization. Searching with technical terms will yield you a much higher quality of search results.
   
   Another good resource that is FREE is In Short with Todd Grimm
   
   I would suggest you start trying to think beyond just additive manufacturing and instead try to think about the bigger picture advantages that additive manufacturing represents, such as:
   
   
4. The integration of digital tools with mechanical processes
   
   
5. The potential for automating older processes using new digital capabilities.
   
   
6. Bespoke manufacturing and the "maker movement"
   
   If you think of it that way you will have a better perspective of what meta trends 3d printing is applying and then you can apply that knowledge to CNC, laser cutting and/or arm robots which share many of the same characteristics with 3d printing.
   
   I'd also suggest keeping your eye on the 5000+ people/organisations/companies who are active in the area but who release new things rarely. Examples of stuff I keep an eye on:
   
   
7. Computational Design of Mechanical Characters
   
   
8. 3d printed motor
   
   
9. Kniterate
   
   
10. Stitch Meshes for modelling Knitted Clothing
    
    
11. Luxexcel's 3d printed optics
    
    
12. Contour Crafting
    
    
13. DMG Mori Additive Subtractive Hybrid
    
    
    
    
    
    

When you are going into printed literature, it is best to go for a specialized subject.

There are a lot of books that want to cover everything, but most of them are pretty bad.

One cover-everything book that I do like is How Weapons Work. But that it mostly because I grew up with this book, and it's probably part of what sparked my interest in firearms. Reading it now, it does cover most things, but it barely scratches the surface of each subject.

You need to know what you want to learn from the book.

If you want books for gun identification you have stuff like The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of XXXXX. These books are great as reference to a particular firearm, but doesn't offer much in terms of data or technical details.

If want to get more specific in a specific brand of firearm you have books like Mauser. Military Rifles of the World. Once you get into books about specific firearms the quality increases. You'll rarely go wrong with a book about a very specific subject.

ForgottenWeapons (which in itself is an extremely good reference for old and unusual stuff) has some book reviews every now and then.

If you want to get technical AGI has some nice video armorer's courses. I only have a couple of them, but I'm impressed with what I've seen.

Dating handwriting is a difficult thing, but, the important thing here is the presence of some characters from 'secretary' hand. (Look at the 'Secretarie Alphabete here http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/alphabets.html ). In general, you'll find secretary forms being used very commonly up to the 1630s or 40s, and less universally (but still often) in the later decades of the 17th Century. It would be very unusual to see it at all in the 18C. The main conclusion you can make is that the annotator was most likely roughly contemporary with the printing - getting more solid than that would be a chore. And I think a quill would at this point would be correct; wikipedia says fountain pens are starting to get used, but I still think it's most common to make your own quill and ink. (Check this out for more detail http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Writing-Implements-Age-Quill/dp/1872477003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383010783&sr=8-1&keywords=western+writing+implements ) .

Ah, so h e and r don't stand for anything - it's just that they are some of the letters that have a more distinctive 'secretary' style.

I think (and I might be wrong) that one of the reasons such books survive because the common quality of paper back then was just so much higher than it is now, at least in big print-runs. Whereas a modern paperback would go brittle and yellow in less than a decade, that just doesn't happen so quickly with early modern books.

The whole idea of renaissance annotation has been a big growth industry, (at least within academia!) in recent years. Here's a book on the subject that's genuinely interesting http://www.amazon.co.uk/Used-Books-Material-Texts-ebook/dp/B00DPBKJWK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383010543&sr=8-1&keywords=used+books+sherman .

It's pretty rare to see posts or queries on here that I'm equipped to answer with anything resembling specialist knowledge, so I guess it's just nice to have the opportunity to be useful! Rare books are kind of difficult to get a working knowledge of without prolonged exposure to them, and not everyone has had that opportunity.

I'm a food scientist currently working for a company in the Midwest. I'll be headed back to grad school in the fall. Have worked/interned for a few food companies and also did research in academia that's published.

I think the best avenue to apply food science in a home setting (coined cooking science) is with molecular gastronomy. Some common ingredients in MG kits are used very heavily in the food industry. As far as resources for the home food scientist, I think the Serious Eats: Food Lab is really good, and books by Harold McGee or Herv­é This are usually great resources for cooking science.

For those interested in food science (the academic subject), Fennema's Food Chemistry is considered the Bible of food science. Fellow's Food Processing Technology is an AMAZING resource for the physics and engineering behind food products. Here's a bunch of other books: http://1drv.ms/1rV9j1m.

I absolutely love this field and consider it the best way to apply knowledge from the pure sciences. If you can work out the buffering potential of a tomato sauce, then run-of-the-mill acid/base chemistry is child's play.

My biggest fear is how much trepidation/malice people have towards many of the big food manufacturers and the outcomes because of that. You can find bottled water labeled "gluten-free" and popcorn labeled "whole grain". It never used to be this way. I think people are really starting to pay attention to what they eat, which is fantastic! The only problem I see is people are getting their information from inflammatory sources, like blogs and sketchy websites. I really hope consumers take the time to gather credible facts before making up their minds. The food industry could definitely do a better job of educating consumers, but alas it's cheaper to just print a new label than launch a marketing campaign explaining what gluten is or what GMOs are.

I also love comparing our food infrastructure to that of other countries. We have, hands-down, the most well-developed food infrastructure on the planet. I'm so glad I got the chance to be a food scientist here, where resources and knowledgeable folks are plentiful. We can eat whatever we want, whenever we want and have virtually no worry over the wholesomeness or safety of the product.

I could go on for days about how great food science is.

Hey there. I have an AS as well and I work for a Big N.

> could write a million things and prove i know it right now from trees, to hash tables, to whatever.

Don't do that unless it's interesting. (One thing that might be interesting is a small game with AI. You can make a Tic Tac Toe CPU player totally unbeatable with surprisingly little code.)

> i have things coded here like a copy of tetris

Yes! Tetris is an awesome game to implement. I've done it in the past. This would look good on a resume.

> I got the time where i could write my own data driven, secure portal website from scratch (it just may not look pretty).

This would look potentially even better.

> I was considering trying to start a tutorial website starting with some of the games and how i wrote them (I did in-place rotation algo in tetris btw not the easy way with 4d arrays) -- although some are direct clones so id have to change things to make it legal to post online.

That would be good, it would also demonstrate your writing capabilities (which are usually also important). The Tetris Company probably won't care about your open source implementation as long as you don't try to monetize it. Could be wrong though.

> it seems today all that stuff is done

Doesn't matter, do it anyway. You'll probably find some unique things along the way that you could do different and better than others, and in any case it will be both a good learning experience and a great demo for your resume.

> I was considering trying to contribute to KDE or other software projects i use.

This would be good for other reasons (demonstrable ability to work with others on a PR, accept criticism, and ultimately ship working software) but I'd start with a personal project first.

> its just sadly functionally impossible for me to get a degree saying i can do it

Do you have any experience writing software professionally? If not, I'd consider looking at freelance marketplaces like Guru. You'll be competing against people in lower cost countries but there are employers on there that want quality over speed. Seek them out and bid with a well-written proposal. Once you have a few of those under your belt, you'll have a public feedback page you can link to from your resume, which is functionally similar to a reference check.

One thing I also want to note is that you might want to look at how you write. I know this is an online forum so you might just be writing lazily here, but business communications need to have correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. It's hard to appear professional without it. Writing for the Technical Professions was one of the better books I read during college; consider it if you feel it could benefit you.

I've got some tips!

I went to film school at an expensive place and stopped going because the commute was a nightmare and the cost was unreal. I later enrolled in the state school in my town and found out that they were teaching much of the same stuff for a significantly lower cost. Moreover, everybody got director experience, not just the people who were "good enough".

Filmmaking is a tough career to get into, so consider what you want to do with it. I know lots of talented people working in news, sports, and documentary, but not a ton doing steady work for feature films. If that's the kind of work you're looking for, you'll need to live in a place where they are made on the regular. (LA, NYC, Vancouver, etc.) If you have a wanderlust, cool, but city living is expensive.

If you've got the bug and want to make movies, don't wait for school to start. Grab a book and your phone and start shooting. You'd be surprised how little it has to do with your equipment and how much it has to do with proper technique. (I was on a team that won a national award for covering an election. We used iPhones and Skype.)

Here's some helpful books:

How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

Television Field Production and Reporting
This is an older edition of what they are using in schools to teach electronic news gathering.

Good luck!

I also had him for 3470 last semester and everything this guy said is on point. Donges has some really awful reviews on RateMyProfessor but I am genuinely convinced that he has taken that criticism to heart and improved the class from it because last semester it was not nearly as bad as people seemed to claim it was.

He more of less tells you exactly which topics will be on the exams, he tells you where to find practice problems, and let's you have a front/back sheet of handwritten notes on each midterm and 2 pages on the final.

I'm convinced that people hate his class for two reasons: The first is that stats is just a difficult class. Students who are extremely competent at math go in to their first stats class and get a C and are convinced that the only way this is possible is because the professor is bad, but that isn't true. I also think people dislike him because he more or less forces you to attend without actually offering attendance points for it. People like to skip class and instead read the textbook or do the online homework but that just doesn't work in his class, his lectures and note templates that he puts online are the best study materials.

Speaking of textbooks, he will frequently mention an alternative book to the one that he is required to recommend to the class. It is Statistics for Engineers and Scientists by William Navidi GET THIS TEXTBOOK. I was able to find it online for free, but it is only $17 to rent on Amazon if you want a physical copy. This textbook is absolutely amazing and I swear Donges teaches directly out of it. There are also these youtube lectures that a different 3470 professor uploaded if you ever miss the notes to something, they're very useful when studying for exams.

This is a pretty decent book that covers a whole lot of machining. It isn't quite the same as getting to run a machine, but it'll prepare you for when you get the chance and help you gain an understanding of why you're doing various things or how to proceed with doing something.

This is a great video series on engineering prototyping tips

Ultimately, one way or another you'll need to get your hands on some machines at some point to start taking advantage of stuff.
Some community colleges, some state colleges, some hackerlabs, perhaps a machinist in your area is interested in taking you on as an apprentice in exchange for time worked or beer?

Not totally accurate, but if you’re looking for popular science/entertainment that’s somewhat anthropology related.... Kathy Reichs is a board certified forensic anthropologist and has written a lot of books. They (she) are what the TV show Bones was based on.

Stiff by Mary Roach is a good one

For nonfiction, and if you’re interested in things highly relevant politically now, these are some incredible works on immigration.

Becoming Legal
They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields

I’m pretty sure this author is a sociologist, but still a great book. imagined communities

Agreed, awesome article that details the importance and consequences of human factors and safety standards. I highly recommend the book 'Set Phasers to Stun' that collects examples of design and engineering oversight.

There is a book series called, 'The Workshop Practice Series', one of the editions is about tool and cutter sharpening. Highly recommended.

There are a lot of books out there for sharpening knives and woodworking tools. Not directly applicable to metal tooling, but they tend to have sections about the science and physics of cutting and edge geometry that are useful and relatively universal.

Machinery's handbook also has good sections on tool and cutter geometry.

Ill see if I can get you some direct links.

Edit:

Article on drill point geometry

Tool and cutter sharpening book

Machinery's handbook

Other sharpening books:

Razor Edge book of sharpening

complete guide to sharpening

Quick searches for variations on 'tool and cutter sharpening' pulls up a lot of other books that look useful.

There are dozens of casting processes. It depends on what you're trying to do. Is it commercial or hobbyist? Industrial or artistic? Reusable molds or unique molds? Lost foam? Centrifugal? Carbon Dioxide? Green Sand? Bronze? Aluminum? Steel?

Need a little bit more info, but if your paper is just a general overview of casting processes, you should touch on at least Green Sand, Carbon Dioxide, and Lost Foam casting processes.

edit Here are some good resources. If you're at an engineering or technical college, you should be able to dig up a copy of Degarmo's which has an excellent section on commercial casting. Also, your school ought to have the Machinery's Handbook in their online archives. If not, check the libraries. It's got to be there somewhere.

A truly excellent book. It was one of the textbooks for my Human Factors classes in college.

EDIT: a link

My former lecturer wrote a book on programming with structured text: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/8743002420/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_8743002420

I can’t remember how much it goes into structuring a bigger program, but it can be very useful as a reference book.

Fermented Beverage Production
is a great book that we used for my fermentation course.

PLC Controls with Structured Text (ST) https://www.amazon.com/dp/8743002420/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_zX3mDbMVVCQ0K Here is that book in English. I purchased it a few weeks ago, and haven't gotten too far into it, but looks to be a good introduction.

Thanks! I have a number of books focused on cocktails that do, as you say, dabble in the spirits that make up the drinks themselves.

In many ways I'm looking for a stripped down version of something like this or similar to the "Alcohol Textbook" you mentioned. It may very well be no such single resource such as that exists, so this may just be a major extension to my liquor library, which would be no bad thing.

I just finished a class about various manufacturing process and we used this book http://www.amazon.com/DeGarmos-Materials-Processes-Manufacturing-Black/dp/0470924675 It covers casting, forging, plastic processes, a bunch of others, and the advantages of each.

I'd check out Don Norman's writings, maybe starting with Design of Everyday Things (AKA The psychology of Everyday Things).

Other books that lead you closer to Human Factors might be books like Set Phasers on Stun: or reading about the various HF Societies

Things like this remind me of "...and, last but not least, Set Phasers on Stun, the tragic tale of a medical patient who meets his fate beneath a poorly designed radiotherapy machine in Texas."

Sometimes, I wish I didn't know how the sausage is made.

> Even in a hospital setting we have very little scope for changing the settings on our machines, and there are unbuilt failsafes to prevent overexposures.

Really? You should read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp/0963617885

https://www.amazon.com/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp/0963617885

[This] (http://www.amazon.com/Fermented-Beverage-Production-Andrew-G-H/dp/0306477068/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452732291&sr=1-1&keywords=fermented+beverage+production) and this are the two most thorough books in my collection.

DeGarmo's Materials and Processes in Manufacturing

Set phasers on stun is the staple human factors book and exemplifies why proper ux is so important to product design.

https://www.amazon.com/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp/0963617885

Machinery's Handbook
https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Large-Print-Oberg/dp/083113092X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519088516&sr=8-2&keywords=machinery%27s+handbook

Mark's Handbook
https://www.amazon.com/Marks-Standard-Handbook-Mechanical-Engineers/dp/0071428674/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519088467&sr=1-3&keywords=Mechanical+Engineering+handbook

Here ya go:

https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Large-Print-Oberg/dp/083113092X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469244053&sr=8-1&keywords=machinery%27s+handbook+large+print

Just put it in your back pocket.

Do you mean Machinery's Handbook?

I don't seem recall anything in the screw design section about beverage bottles. But my copy is admittedly about 15 editions out of date.

It actually happened in radiation treatments of a cancer patient and killed him. It's a classic example in human factors classes when you are studying CS.

http://www.amazon.com/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp/0963617885

Good book and important story.

I know it sounds weird to you, but if you read "the design or everyday things" by Don Norman, you will encounter this idea.

The idea that products that you fail to use or make you feel stupid are bad designs and not "operator error."

It's a commonly held belief by designers and it makes more sense than you might think initially.

EDIT: another book even more relevant: this one is just stories of how people died because of bad designs https://www.amazon.com/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp/0963617885