An Approach to Model-based Parametric Design of Mechatronic Systems

ABSTRACT

The market's demand for ever shorter product life cycles and the resulting reduction in product development time present new challenges to the product development process. Considering traditional approaches to the development and design of technical systems, the design process has changed considerably in recent years, in particular due to more extensive use of computer programs and their increasing efficiency. This requires that the design engineers re-orientate themselves, since the procedure is entirely different from the earlier approach. Furthermore, in the mechatronic system development process, not only are the geometrical design parameters themselves interdependent, they also depend on the design parameters of the various disciplines involved.

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Keywords:

• product model
• parametric design
• mechatronic systems

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work has been partially supported by the Austrian COMET-K2 programme of the Linz Center of Mechatronics (LCM), and was funded by the Austrian federal government and the federal state of Upper Austria. The author would especially like to thank Mr. Ge and Mr. Pentschev, as well as Mr. Raser and Mr. Tragschitz from Waagner-Biro Austria Stage Systems AG for their committed and constructive co-operation.