Modern trends in the development of mechatronic systems

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• aviation, space and military equipment;
• automotive (for example, anti-lock braking systems, vehicle stabilization 
and automatic parking systems); 
• non-traditional vehicles (electric bicycles, freight trolleys, electric 
scooters, wheelchairs); 
• office equipment (for example, copiers and fax machines); 
• elements of computer facilities (for example, printers, plotters, disk 
drives); 
• medical equipment (rehabilitation, clinical, service); 
• household appliances (washing, sewing, dishwasher and other machines); 
• micromachines (for medicine, biotechnology, telecommunications); 
• control and measuring devices and machines; 
• photo and video equipment; 
• simulators for training pilots and operators;
• show industry (sound and lighting systems).
The rapid development of mechatronics in the 1990s as a new scientific 
and technical direction is due to a number of factors, among which the key 
are the following: new trends in world industrial development; development 
of fundamental fundamentals and mechatronics methodology (basic scientific 
ideas, fundamentally new technical and technological solutions), activity of 
specialists in the research and educational fields. 
It is possible to single out the following trends of change and the key 
requirements of the world market in the area under consideration:
– the need of production and service equipment in accordance with the 
international system of quality standards as articulated in ISO 9000; 
– internationalization of market research products and, as a consequence, 
the necessity for active introduction of forms and methods of international 
engineering and technology transfer; 
– increasing the role of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises 
in the economy due to their ability to respond quickly and flexibly to 
changing market demands; 
– the rapid development of computer systems and technologies, tele-
communications (in the EU countries by the year 2000 to 60% growth of 
Total National Product is expected due to these industries); 
– a direct consequence of this General trend is the intellectualization of 
control systems for mechanical motion and technological functions of 
modern machines.
Analysis of these trends shows that to achieve a qualitatively new level of 
the main technological equipment based on traditional approaches it is almost 
impossible.

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The development of mechatronics as an interdisciplinary scientific-technical 
field in addition to the evident technological difficulties and raises a number of 
new organizational and economical problems. 
Modern enterprises that are starting to develop and produce mechatronic 
products should solve the following main tasks 
in this plan: – structural 
integration of the departments of the mechanical, electronic and information 
profiles (which, as a rule, functioned autonomously) into unified design 
and production teams; –
training «mechatronically-oriented» engineers and 
managers capable of system integration and managing the work of narrow-profile 
specialists of various qualifications; – integration of information technologies 
from various scientific and technical fields (mechanics, electronics, computer 
management) into a single toolkit for computer support of mechatronic tasks; – 
standardization and unification of all used elements and processes in the design 
and manufacture of mechatronic systems
The solution of these problems often requires overcoming the current 
enterprise traditions in governance and ambitions of middle managers, used 
to solve only their own narrow objectives. That is why medium and small 
enterprises, which can easily and flexibly vary its structure to be more prepared 
for the transition to the production of mechatronic products.

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