Tool Making implies manufacturing tools to make tailor-made products. Common Tool Making is a comprehensive process that includes making of metal forming rolls, cutting tools, fixtures and assorted tools used to manufacture, hold or test products. This procedure may also, at times, call for fabrication of custom tools or modification of standard tools.
Die Making focuses on making and maintaining dies and often includes the procedure for making punches, dies, steel rule dies and die sets also. Accuracy and precision are most significant elements in die making because the punches and dies must maintain appropriate shape and size to fit correctly into the parts that shall be related to them.