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The main building stone of company marketing policy is a product. The product can be some machine, service, information etc. (Tomek & Vavrova, 2001). From a machine tool point of view the product is not only the machine but also accessory, user manual, servis and training. Nowadays not only producers of macine tool have one important task to reduce production costs. The reason of this step is to bring on the market competitive price of their products. The aim of this paper is to choose several phases of machine tool life-cycle that has main influence on final product costs. The second part deals with two costs reduction methods that were checked in real situations. It is possible to reach up to 30% costs reduction by using one of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Designing process is one of the first phases of any artificial machine life-cycle. Machine tools are complicate machines thus designing process is often the most difficult phase of a machine life-cycle. Therefore this phase has the main influence on future machine features such as machine performance, rigidity, accuracy etc. in order to achieve the best possible design structure of machine it is necessary to understand whole life-cycle of some machine tool. The machine tool life-cycle can be different from other machines life-cycle because some machines tools can also pass through the retrofitting phase during its life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]