Overview
In addition to electrification, digitalization, and automation, expectations regarding energy efficiency and service life are growing, meaning that mechatronic components must offer higher performance, lower energy consumption, increased cycle stability, and reliably predicted remaining service life while maintaining the same size.
"The increasing demands on the quality of mechatronic components are noticeable in almost all industries. This applies to electrochemical converters and pressure control systems in the field of hydrogen technologies as well as control and monitoring mechanisms for various battery technologies in the energy storage market. In automation and autonomous driving, too, the demands on increasingly complex sensor technology, actuators, control units, and telematics systems are also growing."
The shortage of skilled workers is also exacerbating the situation in parts of this industry. This is why the degree of automation in manufacturing plants and the rise of robotics are not due to a voluntary spirit of innovation, but primarily to the inevitable pressure to develop further.
