The Handbook of Manufacturing Technology is the second, completely revised edition of the multi-volume work published by Carl Hanser Verlag from 1979 to 1994. It remains an unmatched reference work in terms of its breadth and depth of topics for manufacturing engineers. This new edition continues that tradition. The volume on Heat Treatment and Coating is a unique combination of manufacturing processes aimed at adjusting and optimizing the "inside and outside" of metallic end products. It includes processes such as hardening, annealing, chromating, nitriding, vapor deposition, coating, galvanizing, sputtering, painting, enameling, polymerizing, plating, rolling, spraying, dipping, and many more. Application-based comparisons highlight the advantages and disadvantages of these processes for different coating systems and alloys.