The development of automatized tool machines has to be complemented by a more intensive attention to machinist-oriented technique conceptions. The field of conventional tool machines and corresponding straightforward automatized machines represent a considerable market potential for German tool machine engineering. From the point of view of engineering, pedagogy and industrial psychology the criteria 'action-orientation' and 'group-qualification' have been analyzed at the example of lathes and milling machines, and new strategies for research and development of tool machines have been discussed. (WEN)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F94B2002+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministe...