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The best tools are typically at the bleeding edge of technology, as the tool generally has to be of better quality than the thing being made/measured with it, s
by femto 5y ago
The best tools are typically at the bleeding edge of technology, as the tool generally has to be of better quality than the thing being made/measured with it, so if you are going to make the best you need a tool that is better then the best (typically meaning it costs a lot). If you ever want a hard-core engineering job, go and work for a company that makes the things that make things, whether that be machine tools, electrical measurement equipment, production lines or whatever.
For example, ASML make the tools that make chips. Keysight and Tektronix make the tools that measure production. They are just random names. The list goes on. The upper echelons of such companies are at the frontiers of engineering.
- neltnerb 5y agoI don't think this is generally true, there are lots of examples where you measure something with higher resolution than the tool's manufacturing precision (for instance, an STM) and similarly lots of examples where you use a lower precision tool to build a higher precision tool (for instance, a mill or lathe but optical focusing would also allow for a shrink if it weren't for the diffraction limit). But moving a generation forward in precision is good, you only ever get close to perfect with diminishing returns.