Scalability in mechanical engineering: How flexible solutions shape the future of automation

In mechanical engineering, everything revolves around efficiency, adaptability, and especially scalability. To succeed in automation today, solutions need to evolve alongside production growth—both in terms of hardware and software. The concept of designing systems should be easily adjusted to meet different requirements and increasing production sizes.

Flexibility at all levels

Scalability is a key success factor in modern industrial automation. It enables components and solutions such as motors, gearboxes, drives, controllers and sensors to be flexibly adapted to the requirements of the respective application - without any fundamental changes to the system architecture.

Whether single-axis control or complex multi-axis applications: our servo and frequency drives cover a wide performance spectrum and can be scaled precisely to the required number of axes and the desired output. The modular hardware design of our systems is particularly noteworthy. The servo inverters in the i950 series, for example, offer modular fieldbus and feedback systems that enable simple integration and expansion.

This modular and scalable architecture creates the basis for future-proof machine concepts - efficient, flexible and powerful.

Hardware and Software: Two sides of the same coin

Scalability means not only having the right hardware but also ensuring that the software evolves as well. An automated system must be able to adapt to the changing demands of production and technology — without having to rebuild the entire infrastructure from scratch.

The Lenze Engineering Suite and Lenze FAST Application Software are excellent examples of scalable software solutions that make it easy to adapt and expand automation systems. Both smaller and larger production systems can be efficiently controlled without requiring new software platforms or tools.

Thanks to these flexible solutions, companies can tailor their production systems to their specific needs—whether it’s quickly expanding a production line or integrating new processes into existing workflows. This type of flexibility is not only time-saving but also cost-efficient, as no major investments in software or hardware are needed.