Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners

Key skills

A typical day

• •Monitor machine operations to determine whether adjustments are necessary, stopping machines when problems occur.
• •Inspect, feel, and measure workpieces to ensure that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications.
• •Study blueprints or layouts of metal workpieces to determine grinding procedures, and to plan machine setups and operational sequences.
• •Select and mount grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.
• •Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts.

Fields of study

Any field