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																									  	  NEWER TRENDS IN MANUFACTURING
 
 
 Agile manufacturing - Lean manufacturing - Virtual Reality  
 
 
 Precision Engineering - its concepts and significance – Micro machining – High speed machining - manufacturing of integrated circuits   
 
 
 Nano engineering- its concepts, significance and applications-molecular and atomic level machining and applications - Rapid prototyping – sterolithography – 3D Printing   
 
 
 Advanced CAD
 
 
 Advanced Assembly - assembly constraints- creating sub assembly
 
 
 
 
 
 
 REFERENCES
  1.	Proceedings of the Seminar on "Significance of Precision Engineering in the Indian Context" Sep'98.
  2.	Serope Kalpakjian, "Manufacturing Process for Engineering Materials" Addison -          wesley Publishing Company, 1997.
  3.	Massood Tabid - Azar, "Micro actuators - electrical, Magnetic, thermal, Optical,   Mechanical, Chemical  and Smart Structures", Khuwer Academic Publishers, 1997.