VDI manual Production Technology and Manufacturing Methods - Volume 2: Manufacturing Processes

VDI Standardisation Work - Principles and procedures

Chip-forming machining of pastics

Powder coating of MDF and wood-based materials

Requirements on the surface structure to cover function capability of surfaces manufactured by cutting; list of parameters

Roughness measurement - Roughness measurement using contact (stylus) instruments (profile method) - Set-up, measurement conditions, procedure

Surface measurement - Specification of surface conditions in technical product documentation

Surface measurement - Roughness measurement using contact (stylus) instruments - Calibration, uncertainty of measurement

Hardness testing of metallic materials; selection criteria: methods of hardness testing, application, advantages-disadvantages, range of hardness test, error limits

Hardness testing of metallic materials

Hardness testing of plastics and elastomers

Carbon films - Fundamentals, film types, and properties

CVD diamond tools - Applications

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; general introduction, characteristic values, materials

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; shearing, form of sheared edge und characteristic values

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; sheaving

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; nibbling

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; fine blanking (see also VDI 3345)

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; counter shearing

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; plasma cutting

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; laser cutting

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; wire cutting (EDM)

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; abrasive water jet cutting

Hemming of panels of body in white

Pressure pins in large stamping and forming dies

Nitrogen gas springs in large stamping and forming dies - Safety instructions for usage

Nitrogen gas springs in large stamping dies - Nitrogen gas springs with enhanced force and low height

Nitrogen gas springs in large stamping dies - Nitrogen gas springs with enhanced force

Nitrogen gas springs for large stamping dies - Mounting versions

Spring plungers with helical compression steel spring or nitrogen gas spring

Cast steel wall thicknesses in large stamping and forming dies - Design references for dies with more than 1000 mm side length

Cast steel wall thicknesses in large stamping and forming dies - Design references for tools with more than 1000 mm side length

Hydroforming - Basic knowledge

Hydroforming - Machines and installations

Guidelines for warm working of steels

Rolling of external threads

Die inserts and impression inserts for forging dies

Flow curves of corrosion resistant steels for screw manufacturing

Deep hole boring with gun drills

Reference values for the deep-boring by boring and trepanning

Deep hole boring systems with external supply of coolant

Deep hole boring - Approximate values for skiving and roller burnishing of bores

Deep-hole boring

Deep-boring equipment; form for enquiry, quoting and ordering

Deep hole drilling on machining centers

Applicability of hard cutting materials for metal cutting processes

Machining of internal threads

Design and use of die buttons in large stamping dies

Trim steels for large stamping dies

Guide pillars with lead-in chamfer in large stamping dies - Supplement to DIN 9833 und ISO 9182-3

Sliding elements in large stamping dies

Sliding elements in large stamping dies

Flanged holes - Flange forming

Shoulder screws, shoulder bushes in stamping and forming dies

Locking pins for large stamping and forming dies

Lifting elements for large stamping and forming dies

Lifting elements for large stamping and forming dies - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 3366:2021-07

Mechanisation elements in stamping and forming dies

Punches with cylindrical head

Lubrication of large stamping and forming dies

Manufacture of pressing tools for aluminium sheet parts and production of aluminium sheet parts

Automated processing of functional elements in press shop/punch shop

Heel guidings in large stamping and forming dies

Heel guidings in large stamping and forming dies

Creep feed grinding

Pendulum surface and pendulum profile grinding with peripheral grinding wheels

Trueing and dressing of grinding wheels - Profiling and sharpening

Trueing and dressing of grinding wheels - Trueing and dressing of grinding wheels with conventional abrasives (aluminium oxide, silicon carbide)

Trueing and dressing of grinding wheels - Trueing and dressing of grinding wheels with superabrasives (diamond, boron nitride)

Limiting of grinding errors

Cutting fluids

Belt grinding for metal working

Centreless grinding

Cylindrical grinding - Basics

Electrical Discharge Machining (DEM) - Definitions, processes, application

Electrochemical machining; treatment of electrolytes and etching solutions, waste waters and sludges

Application of Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)

Additive manufacturing processes, rapid manufacturing - Basics, definitions, processes

Additive manufacturing processes - Laser sintering of polymer parts - Quality control

Additive manufacturing processes - Laser sintering of polymer parts - Qualification of materials

Additive manufacturing processes, rapid manufacturing - Beam melting of metallic parts - Qualification, quality assurance and post processing

Additive manufacturing processes - Powder bed fusion of metal with laser beam (PBF-LB/M) - Material data sheet aluminium alloy AlSi10Mg

Additive manufacturing processes - Laser beam melting of metallic parts - Material data sheet nickel alloy material number 2.4668

Additive manufacturing processes, rapid manufacturing - Beam melting of metallic parts - Characterisation of powder feedstock

Additive manufacturing processes - Laser powder bed fusion of metal (L-PBF-M) parts - Material data sheet titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V grade 5

Additive manufacturing processes - Powder bed fusion of metals using a laser beam (PBF-LB/M) - Presentation of material properties in material data sheets

Additive manufacturing processes - Powder bed fusion of metals using a laser beam (PBF-LB/M) - Periphery and workflow

Additive manufacturing processes - Powder bed fusion of metal with laser beam (PBF-LB/M) - Defect catalogue - Defect images during laser beam melting

Additive manufacturing processes - Design rules - Test artefacts and test features for limiting geometric elements

Additive manufacturing processes - Design rules for part production using material extrusion processes

Additive manufacturing processes, rapid manufacturing - Design rules for part production using electron beam melting

Additive manufacturing processes - Amendment to ISO/ASTM 52903-1: Material extrusion of polymer parts - Filament characterisation

Additive manufacturing processes - Amendment to DIN EN ISO/ASTM 52903-1: Material extrusion of polymer parts - Filament characterisation

Additive manufacturing - Legal aspects of the process chain

Additive manufacturing processes - User safety on operating the manufacturing facilities - Laser beam melting of metallic parts

Additive manufacturing processes - User safety on operating the manufacturing facilities - Laser sintering of polymers

Additive manufacturing processes - User safety on operating the manufacturing facilities - Resin-based manufacturing processes

Additive manufacturing processes - Quality grades for additive manufacturing of polymer parts

Additive manufacturing processes - Design rules - Parts using ceramic materials

Additive manufacturing processes - Test specimens for ceramic parts

Belt sanding in wood working

Quality evaluation of wood and wood-based surfaces - Surface characteristics

Quality evaluation of wood and wood-based surfaces - Testing and measuring methods

Quality evaluation of wood and wood-based surfaces - Milled, sawn, planed, drilled, and turned surfaces

Quality evaluation of wood and wood-based surfaces - Sanded surfaces

Woodworking machinery - Process qualification of machine acceptance procedures

Woodworking machinery - Process qualification - Statistical methods

Machine hammer peening - Basic principles

Implementation of stochastic simulations for sensitivity analysis and robustness evaluation in sheet metal forming

Rotary draw bending of profiles

Bending of profiles - Testing notes for profile bending elements

Rotary draw bending machines - Basics and parameters

Manufacturing of mechatronic integrated devices (MID)

Manufacturing of mechatronic integrated devices (MID) - Laser direct structuring

Test guideline and test workpiece for the water jet cutting technology - Water jet cutting - Test workpiece for 3D processing

Test guideline and test workpiece for the water jet cutting technology - Water jet cutting - Test workpiece for micro water jet cutting

Testing guidelines and testing workpieces for high speed cutting (HSC) - Milling machines and machining centres for 3-axis machining

Testing guidelines and testing workpieces for high speed cutting (HSC) - Milling machines and machining centres for the 5-axis simultaneous milling

Test work pieces for machine tools - Milling - Micromachining

Precision glass moulding of optical elements - Basic technology

Measurement procedures for quality control in precision moulding of aspherical, freeform and microoptics

Preparation and cleaning of mould inserts and specimens to ensure reliable quality control measurements in the production chain of precision glass moulding

Recommendations for interface specifications in the process chain of precision glass moulding of optical elements - Recommendations for optics design

Palletisation for mechanical ultraprecision manufacturing

Optical design for manufacturing - Illumination optics, non-imaging and freeform optics: Optical design process

Optical design for manufacturing - Illumination optics, non-imaging and freeform optics - Optical surfaces

Optical design for manufacturing - Illumination optics, non-imaging and freeform optics - Optical material parameters

Biomimetics - Biomimetic robots

Biomimetics - Integrated product development process for biomimetic optimisation