Career as a Tool and Die Maker
History of Tool Making
With the skills and abilities I exhibit, the industrial field is the career path I am interested in pursuing, specifically called tool and die making. Tool making has been going on since the beginning of the Stone Age. Examples of this are tools used for hunting or the invention of the wheel out of stone. Another advancement made towards tool making was made during the Bronze Age, which was the new use of smelting. Smelting led to the creation of making armor and other materials made from metals. These advancements led to Ancient Egyptians inventions, like the ramp. Due to trading between civilizations, this also led to the Middle Age use/building of cannons and other weaponry. After the Middle Ages, the Renaissance period took place, which made it possible to get credited for you inventions like patent laws. After the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution took place. The Industrial Revolution was the time in which machines started to do the work rather than by hand. An example of this was the invention of the stream engine (Serisier).
Qualifications
The requirement/qualifications of being a tool and die maker requires five main categories: experience, education, knowledge, training, and skills/abilities. A few the requirements under the experience category are the ability of understanding the job/skills required to accomplish the job. For the education standpoint, many people in this career either have three-four years of an apprenticeship or several years of vocational training at a school. However, a few may obtain an associate’s and/or a bachelor’s degree for the job. The third requirement is knowledge of the trade. The knowledge for this job is rather large, like ...
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...ies/responsibilities. An example of this is how they are required to detect flaws in their work, but also take on the responsibilities for their mistakes. Tool making has come a long way from the Stone Age and continues to grow today, which makes this job needed for the near future.
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Die-forming of sheet metal has been around for thousands of years. Originally the metal was manipulated by hand and hammered into the depression, by utilizing crude grooves carved into wood or stone. This technique was used to make spouts, handles, and other forms. Since then, however; they have undergone a remarkable technological evolution. Mate-female conforming dies to create hollow forms by using hydraulic pressure or drop hammer pressure, changed die-forming forever (Paisin, 2013).
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Horn, Jeff, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith. Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010.
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