Description

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An exceptionally readable training resource designed in a flexible "stand-alone" chapter format, this modern book gives future industrial technicians a solid foundation in basic theory coupled with a practical "hands-on" approach that includes exposure to real-life equipment used in the industry today. Using a direct and straightforward style of writing that has won praise from readers, it focuses on the needs of industrial mechanics, technicians and engineers working with industrial mechanical and power transmission products, and integrates safety and troubleshooting components within each chapter to encourage diagnostic skill-building.

About the Author

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Larry Chastain is the program director for Industrial Systems Technology at Athens Technical College in Athens, Georgia. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic University and a Master's in Education from Georgia State University. Prof. Chastain has fourteen years experience working in industry engineering and troubleshooting electrical and mechanical systems. He has been teaching in technical education for 22 years. He has worked as a consultant for several major companies such as Cooper Tires, E.I. DuPont, Georgia Pacific, and Michelin.