The selection and preliminary treatment of suitable materials strongly influences the finishing quality due to extremely high standards demanded in ultraprecision machining. The examination of finished ultraprecision components is an important step within the finishing process.

Session I — “Manufacturing Technology”.- Experiences in the Precision Machining of Brittle Materials.- Ductile-Regime Grinding of Brittle Materials.- Review on Ultraprecision Grinding Technology.- Precision Machining of Advanced Ceramics — A Challenge in Production Technology.- Precision Grinding of Brittle Materials.- Form Accuracy and Surface Integrity in Plane Lapping.- Cutting Forces and Their Influences upon the Surface Integrity in Single-Point Diamond Turning.- Recent Trends in Diamond Tool Technology.- Prediction of Tolerances in Precision Cutting for Mass Production.- Session II — “Machine Development and Improvement”.- Limits of Workpieces Accuracy Caused by the Geometrical and Dynamical Behaviour of Ultraprecision Diamond Turning Machines.- New Material Application to Ultraprecision Lathe.- Machining of Aspherical Surfaces.- A Diamond Turning Apparatus for Fabrication on Non-Rotationally Symmetric Surfaces.- The Design and Construction of a Sub-Microinch Resolution Lathe.- M400 and P400 — a Pair of Machines for Computer-Controlled Fine Correction of Optical Surfaces.- New Design Features of a Fully Hydrostatic Ultra Precision CNC-Turning Machine, Type Super-Mikroturn CNC.- A Personal Prospective on the Quest for Higher Precision Diamond Turning Lathes.- Session 3 — “Measurement Techniques and Equipments”.- Nanotechnology at the National Physical Laboratory.- Micro-Indentation Assessment of Near Surface Materials Properties and Sub-Surface Damage in Precision Machining.- Measurement of Ultraprecision Components Using Non-Contact Interferometry Based Instrumentation.- In-Process Surface Finish Measurement of High Quality Components.- Measurement of Steep Aspheric Surfaces Using a Radial Shear Interferometer.- Testing of Aspheric Surfaceswith Computer Generated Holograms.- Synthetic Holograms for the Testing of Aspheric Surfaces.- Experimental Measurement of Optimum Depth of Cut.

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