Modeling Mechatronic Systems

Able to significantly reduce design risks, simulating overall system performance does not require expert knowledge of modeling.

By Richard Comerford, Electronic Products

The lesson of ancient Babel still resonates through the halls of design firms today: if you really want to screw up a project, make sure that everyone working on it speaks a different language. Having a common technical language to express design concepts and plans is essential to enabling a team of engineers to work together.

And before everyone goes off to work out the details of their particular part of the design, it doesn’t hurt to do an overall simulation of the design concept. This will help ensure that, when completed, a complex system can do the job for which it was intended. Read more