Complete solutions from a single source.
As a development service provider, we implement your turnkey solutions in power electronics, drive and energy storage systems, and energy conversion. We develop complete devices, including all electronic components, firmware and customised housings. Thanks to this comprehensive process, your product can go straight into series production and be adapted flexibly to your requirements and wishes.
Development services.
Concept
- Design, development and verification of efficient and highly robust system solutions in energy technology and functionally safe drive technology
- Safeguarding of functional safety through cybersecurity
- Specification, design, development and qualification of electrical energy storage modules and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
- Design of electrical drive systems and optimisation of control structures based on simulations with MATLAB® and Simulink®
- Process-compliant implementation of threat analyses and creation of risk assessments for cybersecurity
- Creation of security concepts in accordance with IEC 62443 and in compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
Development
- Development and design of power electronics up to 500 kW
- Development of circuits and filters for active power factor correction (PFC)
- Development of supply-feedback units (Active Front End AFE) and grid feed-in systems
- Development, verification and qualification of performance and safety functions in our in-house laboratory (endurance tests (24 hours/7 days) possible under defined environmental conditions)
- Support with product certification
- Management of your production – or that of an EMS – after completion of the development and support of your system throughout its entire life cycle
- Rapid prototyping using MATLAB Embedded Coder
- Creation of secure source code and performance of security-related tests in accordance with EN 50128 and IEC 62443
Series transfer and follow-up support
- Support in maintaining your successful systems and branded products, relieving the burden on your team
- Support for your existing products within the scope of reverse engineering
- Research and qualification of replacement components to support your obsolescence management
- Revision of your systems and products in the event of component discontinuation in direct cooperation with you
- Support of the PSIRT team in product maintenance
Directives & standards.
We are certified to IEC 61508 and work in accordance with the following directives and standards, among others:
- Maschinenrichtlinie 2006/42/EG
- Niederspannungsrichtlinie 2014/35/EU
- EMV Richtlinie 2014/30/EU
- IEC 61508 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems
- EN ISO 13849 Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems
- IEC 62061 Safety of machinery — Functional safety of safety-related electrical, electronic and programmable electronic control systems
- EN ISO 12100 Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction
- IEC 61131 Programmable controllers
- IEC 61800 Adjustable speed electrical power drive systems
- IEC 60034 Rotating electrical machines
- VDE-AR-N 4100 Technische Anschlussregeln Niederspannung
- VDE-AR-N 4105 Erzeugungsanlagen am Niederspannungsnetz
- EN 10218 „Industrieroboter – Sicherheitsanforderungen”, Teil 1
- VDE-AR-N 4110 Technische Anschlussregel Mittelspannung
- IEC 60529 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)
- EN 60204 Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of machines
- EN 60439 Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies
- EN 50272-2 Safety requirements for secondary batteries and battery installations – Part 2: Stationary batteries
- EN 62391 Fixed electric double-layer capacitors for use in electric and electronic equipment
- EN 62109 Safety of power converters for use in photovoltaic power systems
- EN 62477 Safety requirements for power electronic converter systems and equipment
Energy transition.
With innovative concepts, we want to support your energy transformation with our developments. Our expertise covers various systems for sustainable infrastructure and utilities. We work in the following areas, among others:
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Systems for the safe use of hydrogen -
Systems for safe and reliable energy storage
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Systems and drives for wind turbines
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Systems for high-performance electromobility
Developed products.
Wherever the highest demands on functionality, safety and reliability are required in energy and drives, you will find our drive systems and power electronics in use:
Drive systems.
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Robust turnkey drive systems up to 100 kW
Decentralised servo controllers in IP 65 up to 30 kW
Feed-in inverters up to 350 kW
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Intelligent power electronics to maximising system efficiency and minimising grid impact
Ultracapacitor modules for reducing grid load
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Customised real-time field bus systems
Customised drive test benches
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Safety functions for drive systems such as
- STO, SBC, SS1, SLP, SLS
- Safe movement to a safe end position (emergency stop)
- Customised safety functions
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AC motors: Permanent magnet, IPM servo machines, reluctance motors, asynchronous motors
DC motors: Series connection, shunt connection, double connection
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Functionally safe power electronic systems up to 500 kW
Integration of active single-phase and three-phase power factor correction filters (PFC) up to 12 kW
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Converters for controlling electric drives or for generation plants, taking grid codes up to 1500 V into account
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High-power chargers for electric mobility
(also in accordance with German calibration law and UL 1998 for the North American market)
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Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance implemented in the control electronics
Control electronics with consideration of embedded security
Implementation of optimal condition monitoring
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Heat sinks made of extruded and die-cast aluminium profiles, as well as water-cooled using brazing technology or with inserted pipes
EMC-optimised and thermally optimised sheet metal and die-cast enclosures
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Certified, customised, compact energy storage modules – also for use in extreme environmental conditions – based on:
- ultracapacitors
- Li-ion technology
- Lead-fleece accumulators
- Hybrid systems
