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25 March 2008
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CIMdata in the News: “Designing for Mechatronics”
CIMdata’s Director of Research, Ken Amann, is quoted in the article “Designing for Mechatronics” (Design News) that discusses the necessity in product development to integrate mechanical, electrical and software components into products in a more concurrent, systems engineering approach where all the disciplines collaborate early on in the process. The reason for this cross-discipline collaboration is that companies can no longer afford to have possible design flaws or incompatibilities between systems at the end of the design cycle when making changes is expensive and an impediment to shipping products in a timely manner.
Mr. Amann notes. “Electromechanical design has been around for a while, but what that’s really meant is a bunch of people over here doing mechanical design and others over there doing electronics and software and someone bringing them together, but it wasn’t very well-coordinated and not very well-managed,” says Ken Amann, director of [research] for CIMdata Inc., a research and consulting firm specializing in engineering practices. “Under the banner of mechatronics today, we’re trying to tie those processes more closely together so there really is interaction going on between the areas and one can see where one might influence the other more quickly.”
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