New chapter on Nanofabrication Technologies. This new chapter describes the importance of nanotechnology and the commercial products of the future that will be possible by this technology. Existing fabrication techniques that are used for nanoscale products are discussed.

Updated chapter on Microfabrication Technologies. The new material describes how compact discs, a popular product of microsystem technology, are produced.

End-of-chapter problems.  More than 740 end-of-chapter review questions and almost 500 multiple-choice quiz questions with many new and revised review questions and multiple-choice quizzes for all chapters.  All multiple-choice quizzes have been reformatted to make them more user-friendly.

A DVD, based on the SME Fundamental Manufacturing Processes series, showing action videos of many of the manufacturing processes is included free with the book. Chapters have been updated to include references to these videos, and end-of-chapter questions have been added to the text related to the videos.