Battery machine tool system and method

A system comprising:

• a machine configured for using a plurality of different tools with an electronic controller of variable operating parameters for at least two specific tools each of which are installable in the machine, and the machine is at least one of a battery grid casting, grid reforming, grid cutting, grid trimming, grid pasteing, paste ingredients mixing, drying oven, plate stacking, or robotic palletizing machine;
• at least two separate and different tools for the machine;
• a separate tag associated with each of the at least two tools and each tag identifying its associated tool and containing stored data of desired values for the operating parameters for the machine in which the associated tool will be used;
• a reader of the tool identity and of the stored data on the tag associated with the tool;
• and
• the electronic controller is operably associated with the reader and configured to determine whether the tool is compatible with the machine and, if not, inhibits operation of the machine with such tool and, if compatible, is configured to use the data of the tool tag read by the reader to set the desired value of the operating parameters of the machine for use of such tool.