Tool Engineering: Career, Placements and Education Information

What is Tool Engineering?

Tool Engineering is a division of Industrial Engineering. Its function is to plan the process of manufacture, develop various tools and machines and integrate facilities required for producing particular products with minimal expenditure of time, labor and material. Coursework is designed to include the art of designing jigs, fixtures, press tools, creating die casting designs, plastic moulds designs, mastering advanced plastic processing technologies and becoming perfect in metrology and measurements. Tool engineering is based on the use and application of various industrial tools within a manufacturing set-up. Students specializing in this branch of engineering pay attention to the structure and stiffness of the various industrial tools and machines used for creating certain products.

Scope of Tool Engineering?

• Tool engineers are tasked with the design of jigs, fixtures, press tools, die casting, plastic moulds, plastic technologies, cutting tools, metrology and measurements, gauges, engineering graphics etc.
• Tool engineers are most sought after as product drafters and CAD operators.

Placements

• GE Healthcare
• Hycom Engineering
• Ingersoll-Rand
• Jaypee India Limited
• Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.
• Toyota Kirloskar Motors Pvt. Ltd.