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Small but self-organised and highly flexible enterprises are typical for the European machine tool industry. Mainly they produce customer specific and often cost intensive production equipment. High manufacturing penetration and complex manufacturing structures are characteristic of this branch. In order to keep the market position of European machine tool industry new strategies have to be elaborated to concentrate and support R and D activities, reduce production costs, and fasten responsiveness on changing user requirements. Within the project 'Study and Definition of Machining Workstation Reference Architecture (MAREA)' a guideline for a reference architecture for modular machine tools was developed. The architecture will (i) support a formalised specification of machine tool components, (ii) propose possible interfaces between them, and (iii) lead to a more enhanced configurability of modular machine tools. The project 'Modular synthesis of advanced machine tools (MOSYN)' aims at the development of a configuration method based on functional modularity. It has been developed to support the development and production of customer-specific machine tools. Wide application of the introduced method will lead to an improved communication between end-user and manufacturer.