Title: A Case Based Introduction to Advanced CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) by Bill Gibbs, President, Gibbs and Associates, CA, USA, and by Professor Paul G. Ranky, NJIT, USA.

A web-browser readable, interactive 3D multimedia case-based / problem-based / project-based eBook (electronic book) - a first of its kind in the World! This reward winning eBook includes the equivalent of over 280 pages of text, full color, high quality images, interactive diagrams, 2D and 3D animations, over 45 minutes of interactive digital videos, 3DVR (3D Virtual Reality) objects, 360 degree panoramas of virtual tours, an extensive glossary of terms, active code with examples, and user definable templates, all in an open-source, multi-platform (i.e. Windows, Mac OS9 and OSX, Linux, and UNIX) format.

An ASEE (American Society of Engineering Educators), USA National Record winner (2003).

Level: Aimed at university undergraduate and graduate students, professional engineers, including engineering/ marketing managers, product designers, system designers, industrial & manufacturing systems engineers, system integrators, IT, computing and management students. Several sections and cases could be ideal for community college students and technicians. Several sections are ideal for shop floor programmers, CNC programmers and managers.

Available in four different published packages with the same electronic content (approximately 600 Mbytes).

1. ISBN: 1-872-631-45-2 90001: for the professional market as a Hi-Resolution, full color printed Book-CD-combo (see image below), as well as
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Industrial Sponsors/ Contributors include Bill Gibbs, President, Gibbs and Associates, CA, USA, and supporting companies: Gibbs and Associates, USA, Hardinge Inc. USA, with a supporting metal cutting demonstration, and others.

Active code, open source code, customizable MS-Excel templates included!

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It discusses several basic principles, methods, tools and technologies with software demonstrations.

The over 250 interactive screens include over 35 minutes of digital videos and highly interactive 3DVR screens, covering: An overview of a complex multi-axis milling/ turning process, courtesy of Hardinge Inc., USA, with a machine overview and a metal cutting demonstration on interactive video. (This sets the scene to appreciate the challenge for which GibbsCAM offers advanced programming tools and solutions).

Then, Bill Gibbs, President of Gibbs and Associates, CA, USA, explains the

• challenges of SFP (Shop Floor Programming), and the
• new thinking behind advanced CAM and collaborative engineering with some
• excellent in-depth, practical software demonstrations and discussions.

Furthermore we cover: the Case/ Problem/ Context Based Learning Method; The Case Based Hi-Tech. Marketing Method with our 3DVR Virtual Product Demo. Technology; Case Documentation Guidelines Following an Object - oriented Method; Contacts and Direct Links to Manufacturers’ Websites; Review Questions & Challenging Problems for Engineering/ Science, for Computing and Engineering Management/ Marketing Students and Professionals; References; A Major Glossary of Terms; and a section of Advanced 3DVR Object Demos and Beautiful Images/ Videos to relax.

Please note, that this multimedia case publication includes several open source, customizable spreadsheet (i.e. active code) templates in MS-Excel. (A Summary of the Key Features of our Multimedia Library)

Assuming that you have MS-Excel, or a compatible spreadsheet program on your machine, all you have to do is to click on these links, then the spreadsheet template becomes active, and then you can use it as a tool to calculate with your input data. These programs can be used as analysis / simulation tools offering excellent opportunities for professional engineering, management, and IT teams to improve their designs, and processes, as well as for educators and students to learn and employ our techniques.

Many of the Library Cases discuss and teach the methods and the principles how these active code spreadsheet programs work, other Cases just offer them for use and refer to those cases that explain their algorithms in detail. This way redundancy is minimized.

The purpose of these generic, customizable, open source active code templates is to provide software tools for one, or more of the following:

• User requirements analysis: included in this case as an executable template. (This program helps you 'to find out what the customer/ user needs, regarding a specified product and/or service, and how this need could be / should be satisfied in a competitive market'. Note, that this program is fully explained, including the methods and algorithms, an electronic User Manual, and several examples using 3D interactive multimedia in the Component Oriented Disassembly User Requirements Analysis Case).
• Process related failure risk analysis: included in this case as an executable template. (This program helps you 'to find and calculate the risks, and cost of failure of processes that could go wrong during an assembly, or disassembly, or manufacturing, or design or any other process, including marketing, maintenance, etc. in an enterprise'. Note, that this program is fully explained, including the methods and algorithms, an electronic User Manual, and several examples using 3D interactive multimedia in the Component Oriented Disassembly Failure Risk Analysis Case).
• Self evaluation: included in this case as an executable template, and
• Course grading templates: included in this case as an executable template for distance learners, teams, and team managers who are responsible for managing learning/ educational activities and have to evaluate their own, or other learners' knowledge level in a particular field of interest.

To summarize, our user-friendly active code templates add analysis, optimization and evaluation opportunities to our Library, often with 3D interactive objects, and video clips.

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