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