Mechatronics: Multidisciplinary Engineering

Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of science that includes a combination of mechanical engineering electronics computer engineering telecommunications engineering systems engineering and control engineering. As technology advances the subfields of engineering multiply and adapt. Mechatronics'' aim is a design process that unifies these subfields. Originally mechatronics just included the combination of mechanics and electronics therefore the word is a combination of mechanics and electronics; however as technical systems have become more and more complex the definition has been broadened to include more technical areas. The word mechatronics originated in Japanese-English and was created by Tetsuro Mori an engineer of Yaskawa Electric Corporation. The word mechatronics was registered as trade mark by the company in Japan with the registration number of 46-32714 in 1971. However afterward the company released the right of using the word to public and the word mechatronics spread to the rest of the world. Nowadays the word is translated in each language and the word is considered as an essential term for industry.