Mechanical CAD, electrical CAD, PLC programming environments, robot and motion simulation, digital twins, and HMI/SCADA visualization — the real workflows a mechatronics engineer uses daily, not software tutorials.
A mechatronic system is designed across mechanical, electrical, PLC, and simulation domains at once, and each has its own dominant software category. This module works through mechanical CAD's parametric modeling and assembly design, electrical CAD's schematic-driven panel layout, the IEC 61131-3 PLC programming languages and program structure, robot offline programming and reachability analysis, motion simulation and digital twins for virtual commissioning, and HMI/SCADA visualization practice.
The through-line across every tool covered here is the same recurring integration failure: a change made in one tool that never gets propagated to the others, leaving documentation that looks complete but no longer matches the real machine — the exact problem this module hands off to Module 14's documentation practice.