This textbook and exercise book provides students with a clear understanding of the general physical and technical fundamentals of machining technology. The book covers the entire field of cutting manufacturing with various manufacturing processes and describes process-specific characteristics. Additionally, it presents increasingly important boundary conditions in a machining process and their interactions, as well as further aspects of this technology. Practical exercises help to deepen the understanding of the material. In the current, newly structured, and completely revised edition, significant updates reflecting the state of the art have been incorporated, such as numerical cutting analysis and cutting edge preparation.