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Cobham Technical Services and Boulder Wind Power collaborate to accelerate development of revolutionary wind turbine technology

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Radical new design aims to deliver a 20% reduction in the cost of generated electricity

Cobham Technical Services is helping Colorado-based (BWP) accelerate development of a radical new permanent magnet through use of advanced design software. Based on a permanent magnet, direct drive design, BWP’s uses a unique axial flux, air-core architecture that increases and reliability, and will ultimately reduce the cost of generated electricity to compete at parity with fossil fuels.

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Webinar: Introduction to Rotating Electrical Machine Design using Opera

Webinar: Introduction to Rotating Electrical Machine Design using Opera

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Today’s designers of rotating electrical machines are being pressured to deliver more efficient, robust and innovative motors and generators in ever-shortening timescales. In this webinar Cobham Technical Services – will show how the Suite can be used to deliver the accuracy of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) with the ease-of-use of analytical design packages.

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Innovative electromagnetic design tool provides short route to motor perfection

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Optimal design solutions to rotating electrical machine requirements can now be created in hours, by non specialists, using a new version of design automation software from Cobham Technical Services.

Cobham’s Machines introduced a new level of user friendliness when it was launched by providing a design entry system that allows precision finite-element analysis (FEA) models of motors and generators to be created and solved in minutes. The two-dimensional () version of the software has now been integrated with Cobham’s unique tool which automatically finds the optimal solution within a design space – even for multiple or competing design objectives.

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Cobham Technical Services Supplies Electromagnetic Design Software to Siemens Wind Power, To Help Optimise Generator Designs

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* ability to run 1000s of optimisation searches helps make breakthroughs such as permanent magnet generators.

Cobham Technical Services has been awarded a contract for its powerful by Power, a leading supplier of turbines for onshore, offshore and coastal sites.

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Electromagnetic simulation software advances deliver more speed and precision to minimize design timescales and costs

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A major new release of the well-known design software greatly improves the and accuracy of by extending the flexibility of finite element analysis meshing. The software also includes numerous further enhancements, including an integrated graphical for defining associated electrical circuitry such as drive components.

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PEMD 2010 – Cybergen: Modelling the Design Challenges for Small Embedded Synchronous Generators

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From PEMD 2010, Dr Neil Brown FIET, Chief Engineer Research and Technology, Alex Michaelides, Cobham Technical Services presents CYBERGEN: THE DESIGN CHALLENGES FOR SMALL EMBEDDED GENERATORS CONNECTED TO INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE NETWORKS

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3D support optimises power of innovative motor and generator electromagnetic design tool

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Cobham Technical Services is launching a version of its rapid for rotating electrical machines – the Advanced Machines . The new software combines the extreme accuracy of finite-element analysis (FEA) with a design entry system that creates full models of electric motors or generators within minutes.

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Innovative electromagnetic design tool for motors and generators is extended with new ready-to-use models and hysteresis solver

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provides ultra-fast design entry for powerful FEA

At CWIEME, Cobham Technical Services is releasing a new version of its tool for designing rotating electrical machinery. The software combines the accuracy of virtual prototyping using finite-element analysis with a rapid front-end that allows users to create models of motors and generators in minutes — allowing users to achieve radical new levels of development productivity.

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Electromagnetic Simulator Cuts Time to Market for Pioneering Magnetic Drive Technologies

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Advanced capabilities in the simulator are helping to bring ground-breaking magnetic power transmission innovations to market.

A recent spin-out from the University of Sheffield, is currently working with numerous organisations on magnetic gearing and power transmission applications. Among the advantages of its magnetic linkage technology are long maintenance-free lifecycles, very high , an intrinsic tolerance of overloads, no noise, and an ability to tolerate misalignments.

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