Single Point Diamond Turning Technology

Manufacturing with high precision is a development which has been gathering momentum over the last 200 years and accelerating over the last 30 years in terms of research, development and applications in product innovation. It has been driven by demands for much higher performance of products, higher reliability, longer life and miniaturisation. This development is widely known as precision engineering and today is generally understood as manufacturing to tolerances smaller than one part in 104 or perhaps one part in 105. This chapter profiles the categorisation of machining processes with a highlight on the ultra-precision single point diamond turning technology.