Specialties

I help small businesses with R&D problems related to electric motors (and generators). Often, this would mean helping you with both project-management level stuff (Who to hire? How long will this take?) and diving deeper into specific sub-problems (like motor design, or developing simpler a pen-and-paper model of your entire system).

Plus everything to do with finite element analysis, but that’s usually a sideshow (I do love the exceptions!).

Specialties (boring list-type description)

• Project roadmapping
  • Who to hire? Where to start? Why is my desk on fire??
• Design and development of electric machines and magnetics
  • Especially novel and early-stage projects with no established design approaches
• Custom and tailored finite element analysis & software:
  • Stranded conductors
  • Special windings, multiphase machines, fault conditions
  • Iron losses
  • Sliced models
  • Thermal and electric problems
  • Stresses and mechanics
  • Anything else you need in 2D (probably)
  • Ask about 3D-analysis
• Winding and eddy-current losses
• Training and instructing

Clients and Projects

Needless to say, client confidentiality is maintained as agreed. Nevertheless, past and ongoing work includes:

• Tailored FEA apps
• Helping a manufacturing business launch new motor products
• Optimization of an e-bike drivetrain
• Electric motor consulting for an electric aviation startup
• Motor specialist services for an IoT startup
  • Development of fault diagnostics infrastructure
• Motor design for an UEV
• Training and development services for a flywheel energy storage startup
  • Active Magnetic Bearing -related work
  • Knowledge transfer