This book is on capacity building in strategic and non-strategic machine tool technology. It includes machine building in sectors such as machine tools, automobiles, home appliances, energy, and biomedical engineering along with case studies.

SECTION 1: Functional Reverse Engineering Activities in Pakistan. 1. 3D Scanner: An Application of Functional Reverse Engineering. 2. Functional Reverse Engineering of Universal Testing Machine with Enhanced Positioning and Reduced Power Consumption. 3. Design, Modeling, Analysis, and Characterization of a Pin-on-Disk Tribometer with a Novel Spring Loading Mechanism. 4. Five Axes CNC Milling Machine. SECTION 2: Sensors, Tranducers, Printed Circuit Boards, and Control. 5. Sensors and Actuators: Selection and Interfacing. 6. PCB Design and Fabrication. 7. Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Wireless Sensor Node Application. 8. Reverse Engineering the LQR Controller to Find Equivalence with PID Controller. SECTION 3: Machine Tools and Computational Analysis. 9. Machine Tool Improvement through Reverse Engineering and Computational Analysis with an Emphasis on Sustainable Design. 10. A Coarse-to-Fine Classification Method for Aviation High Similarity Sheet Metal Parts Based on Machine Vision. 11. Combustion Timing Control of a Recompression HCCL Engine Using Negative Valve Overlap through Reverse Engineering. 12. Fabrication of Smart-Meter for Power Consumption Measurements of Machine Tools. SECTION 4: Modeling and Simulation. 13. A Six Degree of Freedom Machining Bed: Kinematic Model Development, Verification, and Validation. 14. Learning Fault-Tolerant Control Using a Table Sat Platform.