§ 02 — Become Tool education
Overview
In the tool education, you learn to make the forms and tools that industry uses to produce all sorts of things — from plastic items to metal parts. You design, program, and machine with great precision, often to thousandths of a millimeter. When you are a trained toolmaker, you are the expert behind the tools that make mass production possible.
What do you do in everyday life?
A typical day is about calculating and designing how a tool should be built drawing it in 3D on the computer and programming the machines that machine the part. You turn mill and grind until the parts fit perfectly and you assemble the finished tool. It is a trade that combines computer, machines and precision mechanics.
- 01You learn to design and draw tools and molds in 3D.
- 02You learn to program CNC machines and processing equipment.
- 03You learn to turn, mill, and grind with high precision.
- 04You learn materials science about metals and plastics.
- 05You learn to measure and check that parts meet dimensions.
- 06You learn to assemble and test the finished tool.
How do you get started?
You start with a basic course at a vocational college and then find an apprenticeship at an industrial or toolmaking company, where you earn a wage during training. The programme alternates between school periods and practical training, so you try out what you learn on real production tasks. You can specialise in moulding or stamping tools.
The way forward
As fully trained tool maker you can work in the metal and plastics industry domestically and abroad. With experience you can specialise in design or CNC programming take responsibility in production or build further with a higher technical education for example towards production technologist or machine engineer.
“You don't make the product — you make the tool that all other products are made with.”
Specialisations & levels
- 01Toolmaker
- 02Tool technician
Schools here that offer it
Click on a school to see all its educations. The same education is typically offered in several places in the country.
Where can you read it?
§ — Where can you read about Tool education?
Tool education is offered at 8 places in the country. The list is informational — always check the latest and complete offering on the Education Guide's vocational education map.
Hovedstaden
01- NEXT Uddannelse København — København
Sjælland
01- ZBC (Zealand Business College) — Næstved
Syddanmark
02- EUC Syd — Sønderborg
- Syddansk Erhvervsskole Odense-Vejle — Odense
Midtjylland
02- Learnmark Horsens — Horsens
- Skive College — Skive
Nordjylland
02- EUC Nordvest — Thisted
- TECHCOLLEGE — Aalborg
Mentioned in the programme overview
Names taken from the programme's own overview. We do not yet have all of them as schools here, so those appear without a map or link — always check the individual school for current classes, admission and entry requirements.
- EUC Nordvest, Thisted
- EUC Syd, Sønderborg
- Learnmark Horsens
- NEG (Nordvestsjællands Erhvervs- og Gymnasieuddannelser) Holbæk
- NEXT Training Copenhagen
- Skive College, Skive
- South Jutland Trade School, Odense/Vejle
- TECHCOLLEGE, Aalborg
- etc. (the slaughterhouse school is in Roskilde)