{"id":2068,"date":"2010-08-02T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Dr-Stefan-Jockusch-on-mechtronics-product-complexity\/ba-p\/334421"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:15:32","slug":"dr-stefan-jockusch-on-mechtronics-product-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/dr-stefan-jockusch-on-mechtronics-product-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr.Stefan Jockusch on mechtronics product complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Dr. Stefan Jockusch, Vice President, Product Development, Siemens PLM Software, is responsible for leading Siemens&#8217; development and go-to-market efforts for supporting the combined mechanical, software, and electronic product development and manufacturing.<BR \/>I caught up with him during <a href=\"http:\/\/event.plmworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PLM Connection<\/A> in Dallas. I was interested on his views on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mechatronics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">mechatronics<\/A>&#8221; &#8211; a product that is combination of mechanical, electronic, and software functionality. In the first interview we explore how&nbsp; companies cope with the fact that products contain more and more software that drives the electronics and mechanical components?<BR \/>Dr. Jockusch believes companies must adapt a new way to develop these products. He says we develop functions, not devices or parts.<BR \/>You can listen to the complete interview with Dr. Jockusch here.<BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/24z-UFcvxzQ\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>You can also listen to the&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/event.on24.com\/r.htm?e=216810&amp;s=1&amp;k=307F479F8129CF698274EF8AB22D34AD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">webcast<\/A> Dr.Stefan Jockusch did with Ford&#8217;s Christopher Davey, Senior Technical Leader, Ford Global Electrical &amp; Electronic Systems Engineering.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stefan Jockusch, Vice President, Product Development, Siemens PLM Software, is responsible for leading Siemens&#8217; development and go-to-market efforts for supporting the combined mechanical, softwa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}