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tooling

tooling

1 6.7
Designing and making special molds or metal parts used to make products
  • noun
  • /ˈtuːlɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fabricación de herramientas
  • The Sermatech engineers begin by designing the tooling to machine the embossments for each section of the casing.
  • tooling production
  • tooling for the molds
  • tooling design

Let's let's implement rapid, you know, tooling to improve what's there.

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Examples

  • Advances in technology now allow engineers to build production-ready tooling faster and cheaper than ever before.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The engineers worked long hours designing the tooling needed to create the new automotive parts.

  • Yeah, it's just a lovely machine and all the tooling is inside this tool card here.

  • Assembly lines have been improved over the years with the addition of things like production tooling and worker training.

    Academic text (2012)

  • No matter what type of manufacturing is undertaken, production tooling is fundamental.

    Academic text (2012)

  • But when you when you commit to building a complex device and you build the tooling, you can't go then and change the tooling.

  • Because industry had the tooling and benches for these aircraft, production was relatively inexpensive.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Effective tooling in the production process can significantly reduce manufacturing costs.

  • They invested in advanced tooling to improve the efficiency of their manufacturing line.

Synonyms

tool-and-die work
vstooling
  • Specialized
8.1

Work of designing, making, and fixing metal tools and forms used to make parts

is the procedural activity of preparing such tools and molds not the occupational craft

How Specialized

tooling
  • Specialized
1 6.7
toolmaking
  • Specialized
3.9

Surface Forms

tooling singular
toolings plural

Morphology

tooling = tool (transparent) = tool + ing

A straightforward nominalization of the verb 'tool' referring to the process of making or preparing tools.

Etymology

The word tooling is built on the word tool, which means 'an instrument you use with your hands'. In industry, tooling is the process of designing and making the special tools, dies, or molds needed for production, so the name shows it is about preparing the tools that let a product be made.