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Starting position

Present-day development processes are usually traditionally structured: Complex systems are developed based on a procedure involving the sequential participation of specialist disciplines (mechanical design, electrical design, software development, etc.).

Present-day procedures generally involve copying content from old project documents and manually adapting it. This results in high development outlays, low standardization levels, quality problems, etc.

In general, potential for improvement lies in the very high percentage of customer-specific machines; according to builders of specialized machines, it is too often the case that more than 80% are identical or at least similar from order to order. This reusable part must be modularized and standardized in order to use it for configuration based on neutral and standardized components. Only the respective special solutions should be developed job-specifically.

Mechatronic components, which are the focus of mechatronic development processes, provide a basis for this. Their task is to decouple the task of developing mechatronic components in an interdisciplinary manner from the task of configuring complex systems with mechatronic components: Development efforts can be systematically differentiated as either project-neutral or project-specific efforts. The goal is to minimize project-specific efforts.

A development, which is oriented to mechatronic components, requires a changeover from a sequential process to a component-based mechatronic development process. On the one hand, an implementation strategy for mechatronic development processes must take additional employee qualifications into account, while on the other hand it must modify company structures.