Basics of Tool Engineering

Machine tools are very significant for any industrialised country because they hold a key position in the technology chain. Machine tools are required to build the machines and parts with which capital goods and consumer goods of all types are manufactured, from cars to airplanes, from glasses to ball point pen. If the creative tool engineers and qualified skilled workers are continuously producing faster, better and more intelligent machine tools for the market, they are helping various industries. This means innovation in machine tool industry have a far-reaching and multiplicative impact. Tool engineer is a profession whose job is to assist the manufacture engineer in design and refinement of production, in design and purchasing of machinery, fixtures, tools, dies and gauges to be utilized in producing the parts and in their assembly to the final production.