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Parameterization

Mechatronic components have properties. Examples of this are Power, Revolutions, Variant xy available, DT or PLC address. Parameters are used to describe these properties of a component. Parameters are used to realize specific variants of components. Parameters are used in a large number of components with the same meaning.

So that parameter names, their type and other properties of parameters can be defined across components, a separate object is created for each parameter: