| The tool and die making industry is among the | | | | role in this process is Eli Whitney, an American |
| most profitable industries there is. Tool and die | | | | manufacturer and inventor. His notion of |
| making is a process that requires a lot of | | | | interchangeable parts in planned manufacturing |
| knowledge and know-how. People who decide to | | | | was revolutionary. Because of his studies, he was |
| enter this field would need to spend several years | | | | able to successfully mass-produce firearms and |
| studying everything about it and learning its | | | | weapons for a war that occurred in 1812. |
| different applications. In short, it is no joke to | | | | Since then, tool and die making machines have |
| venture a career in this field. | | | | evolved greatly. The power press came out, then |
| People who are in this kind of profession are | | | | there's the press die, and more. Alongside this, |
| regarded highly by their fellow skilled workers. | | | | injection molding and die casting took a leap, |
| Their job is to make tools, die them, and make | | | | resulting to more demands for more advanced |
| sure that all the objects and products created are | | | | tools. |
| in its best possible condition. They also | | | | Tools and dies are often designed by tool |
| manufacture clothes, pieces of furniture and | | | | designers and engineers, but a well-experienced |
| equipment and car or aircraft parts. They may be | | | | and extremely skilled tool and die maker could |
| found in large industrial and manufacturing plants | | | | also do the job. They would be asked to visit a |
| or in average-sized machine shops. | | | | customer's place to check out the whole |
| In order for a tool and die maker to be efficient, | | | | operation. This would enable them to know if |
| he or she should be educated with even the | | | | there's something in there that needs |
| littlest details about how to manufacture stamping | | | | improvement. |
| dies, jigs, fixtures and plastic molds. Different | | | | Back then, they would use blueprints to plan out |
| types of materials would require varying | | | | the necessary steps to proceed with the |
| techniques. For example, in stamping dies, force is | | | | operation. Everything would then be done |
| required from the maker. However, in plastic | | | | manually. Fortunately, today, CAD or |
| molding, no force is needed. | | | | computer-aided design and more modern tools |
| As the years went on, the machineries and tools | | | | and machineries are already available, making |
| used in tool and die making have developed | | | | things much simpler and faster to accomplish. |
| greatly. One notable person who played a great | | | | |