Tool manufacturer

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A tool manufacturer generally refers to a company or person who is involved in the development and manufacture of tools . A rough distinction can be made between the manufacturers of production tools in tool making (e.g. molds for the injection of plastic parts), the manufacturers of hand tools (e.g. pliers), the manufacturers of machine tools (e.g. milling cutters, machine drills) and the manufacturers of power tools (e.g. drills).

The craft of tool manufacturers such as tool smiths was increasingly displaced by larger industrial companies due to the industrialization that began in the 19th century .

economy

Classification

The tool-making is in the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE) in two sectors of the manufacturing sector split (branch code C), the manufacture of metal products (branch code 25) and the mechanical engineering (sector code 28), in turn divided into the following divisions are. In Germany, the NACE-derived classification of economic sectors WZ 2008 applies , in Austria the ÖNACE, also derived from NACE .

NACE revision 1.1
WZ 2003 		NACE revision 2
WZ 2008 		Branch
28.62 25.73 Manufacture of tools
28.62.1 25.73.1 Manufacture of hand tools
28.62.2 25.73.2 Manufacture of saws and machine tools for woodworking
28.62.3   Manufacture of tools for the construction industry
28.62.4 25.73.3 Manufacture of interchangeable tools for metalworking
28.62.5 25.73.4 Manufacture of equipment for agriculture
28.62.6 25.73.5 Manufacture of other tools
29.4 28.4 Manufacture of machine tools
29.41   Manufacture of hand-held power tools
  28.24 Manufacture of hand-held tools with motor drive
29.42 28.41 Manufacture of machine tools for metalworking
29.43 28.49.9 Manufacture of machine tools, a. n. g.
29.43.1 28.49.1 Manufacture of machine tools for processing stones, concrete and other mineral materials
29.43.2 28.49.2 Manufacture of machine tools for processing other hard materials
29.43.3 28.49.3 Manufacture of machine tools and other accessories for machine tools
29.43.4   Manufacture of electric welding equipment and electric soldering equipment
29.43.5 28.49 Manufacture of other machine tools

Industry data

In the manufacture of tools, there is a very low, stable level of concentration of around 10% (as of 2003) . The production of machine tools also has about 10%, but is one of the companies with the strongest increase in the degree of concentration.

Industry data (as of 2001)
Branch Companies Employees Turnover
million euros 		% of sales of
the 10 largest companies
Manufacture of tools 543 59,778 6,717.7 24.726
Manufacture of machine tools 832 127,834 19,038.0 18.301

history

When mankind began to specifically manufacture and use tools cannot be clearly reconstructed from today's finds, since some potential materials such as wood or grass are unlikely to have left any recognizable traces. What have been preserved are the so-called rubble tools , i.e. tools made of stone, which geologically could be dated to about 2.6 million years ago. The Australopithecus is considered to be the earliest manufacturer, but there is still no reliable evidence of targeted production. Only Homo habilis , Homo ergaster / Homo erectus and other species of the genus " Homo " can be described as tool manufacturers of stone tools . With the increasing development of humans, the devices and manufacturing techniques became more complex, with iterative tools for tool manufacture being used and specially manufactured.

In Editing Figments of Reality , mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen discuss the relationship between the ability to communicate at an advanced level and human technological development. They come to the conclusion that the cultural and technical achievements are not mainly due to the further development of human intelligence, but to a large extent to the ability to pass on experiences through stories. In their work they coined the term extelligence , a further development of intelligence .

Cultural meaning

For a long time, the use of tools was seen as a unique selling point for mankind compared to animals. After the discovery of a Dutchman in Indonesia in 1764 that the archer fish used water as a hunting weapon (and thus as a tool), it was increasingly recognized that other living beings also have this ability. Friedrich Engels coined the quote "No monkey hand has ever made the crudest stone knife". The same article mentions that it was Jane Goodall who first saw chimpanzees pruning branches in 1963 to collect termites from their mound and use them to make simple tools. Later studies also show that targeted tool use in animals is not limited to primates .

Since the targeted production of tools requires the ability to act with foresight beyond pure instincts , this discovery has a strong influence on the self-image of humans: The assignment of Paleolithic fossils to the genus Homo was initially primarily based on tools that were found at the same time.

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  1. ↑ Classification of economic sectors, edition 2008 (WZ 2008)
  2. ↑ Classification of economic sectors, edition 2003 (WZ 2003)
  3. ^ Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart: Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-52-157155-3
  4. ↑ http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/3b10f13d-68aa-4b05-8d5a-b074eb40f0e7.aspx About animals - How the crow uses the car, as of 28 October 2009