Motor-CAD - 3D Thermal Design for Electric Machines

TROY, N.Y., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Magsoft Corporation announced today that it has reached an agreement with Motor Design Ltd., a UK firm based in Shropshire, for the distribution of their award-winning product, Motor-CAD, in North America and Asia. With this product, Magsoft expands its highly technical suite of numerical tools and opens new horizons for its electric machine customers.

Motor-CAD is particularly valuable in the concept stage of the design process for electric machines. Motor-CAD instantly computes the thermal solution of a design using lumped circuit modeling. The steady-state solution can be readily viewed in a simple schematic format, where one can visualize the temperature distribution of the entire electric machine.

Thermal transients including complex duty-cycles can also be modeled easily, and the results viewed in graphical format. Potential motor configurations can be explored to identify either the most promising alternatives, or those prone to thermal failure. This technology is a dramatic improvement over other available 3D alternatives.

Motor-CAD currently supports brushless permanent magnet motors, induction motors, and switch reluctance motors, and an intuitive interface allows one to smoothly enter pertinent motor data in organized templates. One can characterize their design alternatives with control of input parameters like:

* 3D geometry features

* Conductor type, winding layout, and power controls

* Mechanical and electrical losses

* Material properties

* Housing, potting, and cooling configurations

According to Philippe Wendling, a VP at Magsoft, "As the demands of electric machine design continue to require more performance in a smaller space, it is essential to carry out a detailed thermal analysis along with an electromagnetic analysis. It can be computationally expensive to do a completely coupled 3D analysis for each design alternative. We feel that the use of Speed, Motor-CAD and Flux in a hybrid analysis approach will allow a designer to quickly and efficiently meet the device requirements.

Motor-CAD is a unique software package which we feel will be a valuable contributor to this hybrid analysis approach which will revolutionize the design of electric machines."

About Magsoft

Magsoft Corporation markets leading computer-aided-engineering (CAE) simulation tools. These tools are used by manufacturers to accelerate and manage precise design solutions for devices such as motors, transformers, actuators, and sensors. Magsoft offers a range of products and services, and has comprehensive facilities throughout North America and Asia. 

www.magsoft-flux.com

 

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