"form a component" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to refer to something that makes up part of a larger whole. For example, you could say, "The various modules of this project can be combined to form a component of the larger system."
Manipulating their clocks might therefore have commercial value.Dr Fussenegger also imagines that his biochemical circuit could form a component of future gene therapies.
The question then is, does the perception customers have of governance form a component of service value.
Welding aluminum and magnesium alloys to form a component structure can reduce the weight of the structure and the cost of the component.
Quality improvement (QI) measures often are cited as goals for individual practices and medical centers and may someday form a component of reimbursement guidelines.
Pre-fabrication generally takes place at a specified facility (e.g., fabrication shop), where various materials are conjoined as per the engineering design in order to form a component part of a larger item.
All-oral regimens combining different classes of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) are highly effective for treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C. NS5A inhibitors will likely form a component of future interferon-sparing treatment regimens.
Failure to control the infection has been linked to transmission from European badgers; badger culling has therefore formed a component of British TB control policy since 1973.
This is an indirectly reciprocating, apparently altruistic social act that forms a component of 'social policing'.
This protein forms a component of glutamate pathway and has multiple developmental and stress-related functions.
A bistable switching response is effectively a biological transistor that forms a component of a biological circuit [ 13].
This paper forms a component of a PhD study, in which an Australian postgraduate award (APA) was awarded to the principal author.
