Designing Cost-Efficient Mechanisms: Minimum Constraint Design, Designing With Commercial Components, and Topics in Design Engineering

Rating:
Summary: Engineering Ideas You Need (but weren't taught)
Review: Great book - put down your GD&T manual and study this first.
In the first part of the book Mr. Kamm teaches ways to think
about constraints and how they affect assembly, functionality,
and repeatability of mechanisms. You will use these ideas for
the rest of your career, but probably did not have much exposure
to Min Constraint in college. I also found the balance of the
book valuable - Mr. Kamm's experiences have given him scores of
real world examples.

Rating:
Summary: Engineering Ideas You Need (but weren't taught)
Review: Great book - put down your GD&T manual and study this first.
In the first part of the book Mr. Kamm teaches ways to think
about constraints and how they affect assembly, functionality,
and repeatability of mechanisms. You will use these ideas for
the rest of your career, but probably did not have much exposure
to Min Constraint in college. I also found the balance of the
book valuable - Mr. Kamm's experiences have given him scores of
real world examples.

Rating:
Summary: Mechanical design not taught in school
Review: If your parts have zero tolerance and cost does not matter, this book won't help you. It just tells how to design mechanical connections so real parts go together and move together with zero looseness, zero binding, and minimum cost.

Rating:
Summary: essential for mechanism designers
Review: My degrees are from MIT, and I have spent the last ten years in industry. This is far and away the best book I have seen on 'smart' design, based on thinking about how parts are constrained or guided. It includes every trick I developed for myself [that my colleagues usually do not understand], plus many more. Plus it is amazingly inexpensive, and approachable [lots of pictures, no equations]. If you design, invent, or just have a 'mechanical' mind, do yourself a favor and get it immediately.

Rating:
Summary: A must read for designers
Review: This books contains information essential to designing quality mechinery and mechanisms. It provides an introduction to minimum constraint design. The book also includes some guidlines for designers regarding mechanical components, manufactures, and good design habits. It is amazingly easy to read! Highly recommended for anyone designing machinery...

Rating:
Summary: A must read for designers
Review: This books contains information essential to designing quality mechinery and mechanisms. It provides an introduction to minimum constraint design. The book also includes some guidlines for designers regarding mechanical components, manufactures, and good design habits. It is amazingly easy to read! Highly recommended for anyone designing machinery...