“…Of course, the gross number of papers can change, because new papers can be published or some papers might not be available online anymore, but we believe that the final conclusion will not deviate from ours. [2,20,42,60,67,76,91,104,112,113,115,120,127,128,136,150] "…it becomes even more challenging and difficult to address the above reported challenges while performing mechatronic design, especially due to cross-domain dependencies" [113] Design conflict 7 [30,44,45,61,75,121,154] "…minimize the appearance of early design conflicts and to solve the rest of them…" [45] Interoperability 29 [1,5,11,[13][14][15]26,27,29,31,32,49,54,55,62,72,73,80,103,106,108,…”