Dawn of new machining concepts

The impact of Industrie 4.0 onto machine tools is significant, despite the fact, that quite some of the novelties discussed within this new paradigm have their roots decades earlier. But especially the concerted action, which strives the development of sensors, controls, data processing together with connectivity, unprecedented data integration and the notion of cyber physical production systems open up new development lines towards manufacturing systems as enablers for the progress in manufacturing. Highly developed compensation concepts are developing into state depending AI-supported strategies. Maintenance becomes predictive, as learning of machines becomes global and model based. Further inspirations taken from biological systems are adopted for machining centres and drive a biological transformation of manufacturing machines. Machine intelligence becomes the basis for executing manufacturing processes, which requires a close integration of process intelligence (CAM-systems) and machine controls.