%A Ananto Gamawan %A Andriyanto Yoseph %A Suherdi Edi %X Bandung State Polytechnic for Manufacturing (POLMAN), as a high education institution in vocational, implements up to approximately 60% practical program in order to build the students skill for manufacturing process. For those, product media are created from structured exercises that referred to students competency levels needed and also initiated from external inquiries through collaboration with industrial parties, in a system called Production Based Education (PBE). With industrial product handling setup in organization, the QCD necessity for the customers are embedded in the system. Since job shop is a kind of product that met with the facility design in Polman, special tools is the suitable product media for this kind of education.Supported with necessary theory session either in operation management and technical matters during the learning process, students will experience the comprehensive tools project. They learn not only processing skill but also introduced to other related production issuessuch as material and component preparation,operation planning, scheduling, managing and control the project, etc.This model might be implemented and developed to the other high education vocationaland VET institutions with certain condition, in order to make the students be more professional and responsible workforce in the future. %K PBE, production based education, toolsproject %L UNY24425 %J International Conference On Vocational Education And Training (ICVET) May 14 th, 2014 %D 2014 %I Yogyakarta State University %T EXPERIENCING TOOLS PROJECT THROUGH PBE (PRODUCTION BASED EDUCATION) SYSTEMIN VOCATIONAL INSTITUTION