This paper introduces into a graphical, computer aided modelling methodology that is particularly suited for the concurrent design of mechatronic systems, viz. of engineering systems with mechanical, electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic components including interactions of physical effects from various energy domains. Beyond the introduction, bond graph modelling of multibody systems, as an examp...

Ontology has the task to construct the most general theories concerning concrete objects, their being and becoming. Concrete objects such as products, facilities and people do also anchor the processes of an enterprise, both its operations and renewal processes. Whereas several enterprise models have been proposed in the past, none has clarified the interwoveness of operational and renewal proc...