Foundry tooling - Manufacturing and developments

This dossier completes the one on foundry tool design [M 3 585] by covering the manufacturing process right up to the end product, with an overview of manufacturing methods, the materials used and the industry's future prospects.

Here, we emphasize the importance of the role of the "toolmaker", whose main skills, in addition to those specific to the tools he designs and manufactures, are computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), machining, metallurgy and fitting.

Important: as the various foundry techniques used are very precisely described in other dossiers in Techniques de l'Ingénieur, we encourage the reader to refer to the following references: [M 3 500][M 3 510] , [M 3 512] and [M 3 540] .