Application of engineering processes analysis to evaluate benefits of mechatronic engineering

Mechatronic thinking in engineering is an upcoming trend in production system design and implementation. Several approaches and tools are considered and developed within the last years. Nevertheless, within practice the adoption of mechatronic engineering is not very fast. This is due to the required conviction of engineers about the benefits of mechatronic engineering. Within this paper methods of engineering process analysis are used to evaluate the benefits of mechatronic engineering.