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Contents

Preface ix
Terminology and Abbreviations xiii
Nomenclature xix
Conversion Table xxiii

Part 1 Engineering Guides of Modular Design and
Description Methodology of Machine Tools

Chapter 1. Basic Knowledge: What Is the Modular Design? 3
1.1 Definition and Overall View of Modular Design 11
1.2 Advantageous and Disadvantageous Aspects of Modular Design 17
1.3 A Firsthand View of Developing History and
Representative Applications 20
1.3.1 Application to TL and FTL 27
1.3.2 Application to conventional machine tools 40
1.3.3 Application to NC machine tools 47
1.3.4 Different-kind generating modular design 54
References 60
Chapter 2. Engineering Guides and Future Perspectives
of Modular Design 63
2.1 Four Principles and Further Related Subjects 64
2.2 Effective Tools and Methodology for Modular Design 72
2.3 Classification of Modular Design Including Future Perspectives 76
2.3.1 Modular design being widely employed 78
2.3.2 Modular design in the very near future—a symptom
of upheaval of new concepts 80
2.4 Characteristic Features of Modular Design Being Used
in Machine Tools of the Most Advanced Type 86
2.4.1 System machines 88
2.4.2 Machining complex and processing complex 102
References 108

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