This title is aimed at trainees in the field of machining technology and organizes the subject knowledge for the professional level into four action areas: manufacturing individual parts with machine tools, manufacturing on numerically controlled machine tools, controlling and automating, and maintenance. Based on work assignments, the chapters of the book describe approaches and methods for informing, planning, documenting, and evaluating, thereby promoting action-oriented work and independent learning. The underlying technological, mathematical, scientific, and drawing-communicative subject content is systematically structured and presented in detail.