Cutting-Edge Engineering - An Innovative Approach to Better Support the Engineering and the Life Cycle of Automated Production Systems

This article describes how a future engineering of production systems could look like and what the benefits would be. The presented concept is requirement-based and uses a role-concept and aggregation to deal with the increasing complexity of mechatronic systems. The aim is to counteract the increasing complexity of the systems. For this purpose, strategies must be identified and implemented to achieve this. Finally, an approach for implementing this concept is described.