Method and apparatus for reducing an energy consumption of a machine tool and machine tool system

The invention relates to a method for reducing an energy consumption of a machine tool (2, 3, 4) of a machine tool system (1), said machine tool system (1) at least a first machine tool (3) having a first machine cycle time and a second machine tool (4) with a second machine cycle time, wherein identical workpieces (9) are initially the first (3) and then the second machine tool (4) supplied in time sequence to a processing (101, 107) and wherein the second machine cycle time is less than the first machine cycle time. The inventive method is characterized in that the workpieces (9) are collected after the processing by the first machine tool (3) (105, 106) before they are fed to the second machine tool (4) (107). The invention further relates to a corresponding device (10) and a machine tool system (1).