产品的生产，从设计到材料加工以获得具体的实物，始终是人类生活中一个基本的方面，并标志着其演进过程中的关键里程碑。正是这一持续而漫长的进程，使我们今天生活在一个以全球化生产环境为特征的世界，其中涉及广泛的科学与技术领域、既有的知识与新知，以及数以百万计具备不同技能与角色的人。《CIRP 生产工程百科全书》旨在收集并提供与设计实践、材料和制造技术相关的知识，力求为该制造领域的知识提供权威、详尽且易于获取的途径。与人类知识逐步积累的性质相适应，《CIRP 生产工程百科全书》涵盖基础概念与新兴概念，并被设计为一部不断演进的著作集成，作者既可投稿更新既有文章，也可添加新的文章。目标读者包括生产工程技术领域的研究人员、工程师、管理者、研究生及从业者，以及该……
The production of products, from the design to the processing of materials to obtain a concrete object, has been a fundamental aspect in the life of humans, characterizing the key milestones of their evolution. As a result of this continuous and long process, we live today in a world characterized by a global production environment involving a wide range of scientific and technological areas, consolidated and new knowledge, millions of people with different skills and roles. The CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering is aimed at collecting and make available the knowledge related to design practices, materials and manufacturing technologies, with the aim at providing an authoritative, exhaustive and easy access to the knowledge in the area of manufacturing. Matching the incremental nature of the human knowledge, the CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering covers both fundamental and emerging concepts, and has been designed as an evolving corpus, where authors can contribute updating existing essays as well as adding new ones. The target audience includes researchers, engineers, managers, graduate students and practitioners in production engineering technologies and the re…