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Acknowledgments

I give thanks first to the Lord, Our God, for blessing me with the opportunity, knowledge, and ability to share in this work. Many thanks are due to all of the parties listed below, who helped on this project. Special thanks are due to the publisher, Industrial Press, specifically to President, Alex Luchars; Managing Editor, Laura Brengelman; former Editorial Director, John Carleo; and Production Manager, Janet Romano.

Thanks to Robert Weinstein, Editor, of Gerson Publishing Company, for his efforts in editing this text.

Thanks to Marc Sullivan, of Remote Machine and CNC Software, Inc., for allowing the use of Mastercam X8 software in the development of this work.

Thanks to Derek Hart, Mindy Cosner, and all parties involved in the LULA Agreement process for the use of Siemens NX 9.0 software and graphics in the chapter on Feature-Based Machining.

Thanks to Jill Jozwick, Jody Michaels, and Mark Brownhill at FANUC FA AMERICA for the use and help with the NC Guide i Academic software for the new NC Guide i Programming section.

Thanks as well to:

• T.J. Long; Katie Richardson, and Larry Meenan of Kennametal for their assistance and contribution of tooling graphics and other technical data.

• Martin J. Aguilar of SolutionWare Corporation for the use of their MazaCAM Editor software and permission to use screen shots in the text.

• CarrLane Manufacturing for their permission to use technical data in the appendix.

• Peter Smid for his thoughtful efforts in the review of the third edition of the work.

• Mazak Corporation for their contribution of photos used in the chapter MAZATROL Conversational Programming. Mazak™ and Mazatrol™ are trademarks owned by Yamazaki Mazak Corporation.

• The original authors, John Polywka and Stanley Gabrel, for their efforts building a solid foundation in the first edition of this book.