Development of machine tools design and operational properties

This paper presents the main directions in the development of machine tools, their producers’ and users’ business determinants, and the current and future development of intelligent machine tools, ensuring, among other things, their high productivity and machining accuracy. The role of the modelling and simulation of operational properties in the state-of-the-art improvement of machine tools and the importance of increasing the precision of the latter taking into account the carried out process are discussed. Much attention is also given to the energy intensity of machine tools and machining processes from both the technical and economic point of view. In conclusions, expectations as to the further development of machine tools are formulated.