tooling

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They machine my blanks with our tooling, which is all made to our design, including the drills, reamers, button, so forth, so on.

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  1. noun Work or ornamentation done with tools, especially stamped or gilded designs on leather.
  2. noun The process of providing a factory with machinery in preparation for production.

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  • Everyone said the tooling was what would kill me, and I tried not to think about it until the lathe order was in the works. —  Tools of Renewal
  • Outside of cloud-y infrastructure we also have accessories such as tooling, including monitoring, configuration management and automation, as well as a never-ending supply of APIs to interact with every cloud service. —  The Register
  • They're all very homogenous and so you want to make sure you have your tooling, and your configurations are set up so that you can go from cloud of three nodes to four nodes, or go from a cloud of three down to two very easy without having to get a system up at 4 AM and have to go and ssh into a machine before you can change things. —  Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community
  • Gates said the tooling will be moved to Chrysler's casting plant in Etobicoke, Ont. The hope is the move can be done in less than a week. —  detnews.com - Commuting
  • With the new production process and tooling, the customer, as it has indicated, will have a future demand for these new parts. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
 

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