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For the area of die-and-mould-making industry multi-axis HSC-milling plays an important role for the applied process chains. Tool wear, which cannot be avoided, influences the quality of the produced dies and moulds and it is determined mainly by the geometrical and technological properties of a concrete process. The following paper describes a system, which allows to predict the tool wear state during a future process on the machine tool. This is achieved by incorporating a process simulation system combined with technological wear models.