Mechanical engineering considerably benefits from the increasing use of information technology. The arising new discipline is called mechatronics, which expresses the close integration of mechanics, electronics, control engineering, and software engineering. Hence, the design and production of such systems is an interdisciplinary and complex task, which requires effective and continuous cooperation and communication between developers from different domains during the whole development process. Within this context, a methodology for the integrative conceptual design of products and corresponding production systems has been developed in the collaborative research project VireS - 'Virtual Synchronization of the Development of the Product and the Production System'. The methodology is domain-spanning and model-based and enables the analysis of the model in early design phases e.g. evaluating the costs and the robustness of the product and the associated production system
Kurzfassung
Im Rahmen der Entwicklung mechatronischer Systeme determinieren Fertigungs- und Montagetechnologien bereits das Produktkonzept. Andererseits erfordern innovative Produktkonzepte die Gestaltung neuer Produktionssysteme. Vor diesem Hintergrund sind Produkt und Produktionssystem von Beginn an im engen Wechselspiel zu erarbeiten. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird dargestellt, wie ausgehend von dem Produktkonzept eines mechatronischen Systems das Konzept des entsprechenden Produktionssystems entwickelt wird. Das reduziert die üblichen zeit- und kostenintensiven Iterationsschleifen im späteren Verlauf der Produktentstehung.
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