0 to operate with reduced product development timescales in order to capture market share
0 to respond rapidly to changes in competitors
products to increase the competitiveness of their products by taking advantage of developments in technology 0 to provide increasing levels of performance and reliability at little or no real increase in price to the customer e to plan for and to develop new market opportunities. ---------------. A way to meet the demand of cost efficiency is to design complex systems as modular and easy-to-configure mechatronic systems . The method applied is to re-utilize or adapt components and assemblies in development in order to save engineering time and effort The components in the sense of recurring function units can be arranged to functional sets or modules libraries. The development process can be accelerated by the combination of reused mechatronic modules.The availability of modules supports the developers as they are able to quickly create a functioning machine concept by reusing more complex modules. Moreover, the risk of errors caused by missing parts of assemblies is decreased due to the use of mechatronic units