Talk:Mechanical system

The new article on mechanical systems
This article is a work in progress. It is an attempt to bring more information about mechanical devices and systems to Wikipedia. This effort was started in the article on Machines but has been migrated to here, because...well read the discussion page of that article and decide for yourself. Quite a bit is needed, so please feel free to join in. Prof McCarthy (talk) 06:59, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Mechanical systems are a subset of machines
This article has copy-pasted large chunks of the material from the article on machines and as such is a candidate for merging with that article. Wikipedia articles are not supposed to duplicate large chunks of material, rather they should reference the appropriate material using links.

This article contains definitions of a machine and in places is written as if it were the article on machines; this is confusing to readers. This article should be clearly written to cover mechanical systems and not make general statements about machines. Derek farn (talk) 14:28, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Moved topics to Machine (mechanical)
In order to avoid further confusion regarding the mechanical aspects of machines, an new article Machine (mechanical) has been created. Topics on the analysis and design machines that involve forces and movement can be presented in that article. A topics in this article on mechanical systems can focus on systems of actuators, mechanisms and controllers and present the details in other articles. Prof McCarthy (talk) 15:02, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Moved topics to Machine
Many of the topics of this article have been moved to the article Machine. This is to prepare for the merging of these articles. It seems that, for now anyway, there is no longer the insistence that electronic systems are machines and and transistors are machine elements.Prof McCarthy (talk) 04:39, 27 September 2017 (UTC)