5 Tips For A Low Cost Mechatronics Engineering System | Simplexity Product Development

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Tightly integrating your mechatronics system is key to achieving the optimal cost performance ratio for your product.
Here are 5 tips for a highly integrated mechatronics system.
First, understand your system requirements.
You need to know exactly what it is your system needs to do and what the motion requirements really are.
Two, understand your key constraints.
You need to know what limitations are applied to the current and voltage, speeds and torques in the system.
Things like external vibration can be very important.
Also you want to understand if you’re free to allocate cost within your mechatronic system between the electronics and mechanics, that can really open up some design options.
You need to have well-matched interfaces.
Everything in the power flow from the power supply clear to the load need to be integrated and designed to work with each other to avoid any excess margin.
The fourth thing to think about is proper sensor selection and placement.
Make sure you have enough resolution in your encoder and put it in the system to measure what you care about.
Remember, your control system controls the encoder it doesn’t really control anything else.
The fifth thing to think about is proper integration from the start.
If you want to have a well-integrated system you need to think about that from the very beginning.
I recommend having an experienced mechatronics systems engineer in from day one of the architecture phase.
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