Integrating the SBCE Principles with MBSE Methodology for the Mechatronic System’s Design

The growing penetration of mechanical engineering through information technology has led to considerable advantages. The resulting discipline that expresses the tight integration of mechanics, electronics, control and software engineering is called mechatronics. Therefore, designing mechatronic systems is a complex as well as an interdisciplinary task. Added to that, developing a new mechatronic product takes a lot of time due to the iterative exchange loops between the designers, the manufacturing engineers and other specialists, which subsequently increase the development cost. Hence, continuous and effective communication and cooperation between developers from various fields during the entire development process is necessary. In this context, we propose an approach based on the integration of the set-based concurrent engineering principles with the system engineering methodology for the design of complex mechatronic systems, taking into consideration the production system constraints in the early design stages. The goal of this approach is to reduce the iterative exchange loops between different participants, which in turn minimize the cost and time required to develop a mechatronic product.

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