An interdisciplinary SysML based modeling approach for analyzing change influences in production plants to support the engineering

Modern mechatronic production plants contain a multitude of mechanical, electrical/electronic and software components. During its lifecycle such a system evolves through changes of different system components. In order to take the influences of these changes, discipline specific as well as interdisciplinary, into account during the development an adequate modeling approach and notation is required. In this paper an approach (called SysML4Mechatronics) utilizing the port-concept of the current version 1.3 of the Systems Modeling Language, to depict and analyze change influences in mechatronic production plants is presented.