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3)Special Tooling:[Group: Tool]

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Special tooling is designed to reduce requirements for direct labor hours and costs, speed production and improve techniques, tolerances, and finished parts. The term includes jigs, dies, fixtures, molds, patterns, special gauges and special test equipment used in the production of end items. The term does not include general purpose tools, capital equipment, expendable tools, small hand tools, tools acquired before the contract, replacement tools, and items of tooling that are usable for the production of items not required under the contract.
(D. Oyer, Pricing and Cost Accounting, Second Edition, pg.145)

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Special  tooling is that which is designed and built for a specific application, such as a specific product or  family of products. Delivery on such tooling may be several weeks, and tooling costs are relatively high.

Examples of special tooling are shown in Fig.28. This usually includes dies, molds, patterns, jigs, fixtures, cams, templates, N/C programs, and the like. Some Standard tooling may be modified to perform a special function . When this modification is performed in accordance with a specified design , then the tooling is classified as special tooling.

(Kutz M., Mechanical Engineer's Handbook, Manufacturing and Management, 3rd Edition, P.104)