CLARITY IN MODULARITY

摘要

Industry 4.0 is helping machine designers to rethink their modularisation strategies. That's because designers are finally getting the tools they need to engineer the mechanical, electronic and software components of a design in a coordinated manner, says Neil Beaumont of Lenze. For machine builders, modularisation provides a host of advantages. Breaking designs down into standard functional units, and developing modules to fulfil those functions, can dramatically reduce the development and testing work required to produce a new machine. Instead of starting each job from a blank sheet of paper, engineers can apply ready-made solutions to common tasks.