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The design of fast machine tools which offer high manufacturing accuracy by employing high performance axis drives requires careful design not only of the individual components of the machine but of the entire machine structure. The overall consideration of the machine tool with its critical components, such as structure, frame and drives, represents a viable approach to achieving a qualitative improvement with regard to increased dynamics and accuracy. During the conceptual design phase of a machine tool for high-speed machining, special attention has to be given to its structure and frame, since very high inertia loads occur as a result of high accelerations caused by the feed drives. In the case of conventional machines these forces play a secondary role.

In many manufacturing tasks the shortening of production times can only be achieved by optimizing the whole manufacturing sequence. Nevertheless main production times can be reduced significantly by single optimizations during particular cutting processes, when the production time determined by the parameters cutting speed and feed rate, is raised in the field of high-efficient machining. The practicability of this strategy depends on the material to cut. In this paper the potentials of a matched tool geometry with regard to the reachable material removal rate and the achievable component quality are presented. The shown research contains the mostly employed manufacturing processes in aircraft component manufacturing like drilling, reaming, milling as well as new machining strategies like circular milling of aerospace alloys.