Industries
Today, the Anser® AI engine delivers real-world benefit to designers and manufacturers of electric motors across multiple industries and does so in just days, not months. Our output can be optimised for price, performance, efficiency or a balance of customer-defined criteria. We have already demonstrated that Anser AI both shortens development time and can reduce BOM cost by up to 20%.
Mobility
Rare earth magnets can be removed, or reduced, and trade-offs between different motor types and topologies can be explored to identify the ideal candidate, whether for a BEV or hybrid application.
Domestic Appliances
Whether optimising for silence in high-end devices, pushing a product into a higher efficiency band or driving cost as low as it can go, Anser AI can reveal new options that give competitive advantage.
Aviation
Combining weight reduction with efficiency improvements across the propulsion system means we can improve the range and viability of electric flight. Anser is able to incorporate simulations to evaluate specific safety conditions or limits alongside normal performance evaluations.
Generation
Marginal gains in efficiency quickly build into significant economic gain over the lifetime of a generator, for example, in a wind turbine. Anser AI can optimise for both efficiency and reliability and help reduce both CAPEX and OPEX.
Industrial
Reducing the cost of legacy industrial drives and meeting increasingly stringent energy efficiency legislation are complex challenges. Anser AI is being applied in multiple ways to find new levels of performance within existing and emerging manufacturing sectors.
Off-highway / Mining
Current battery technology struggles to match the energy density and durability requirements of heavy-duty applications and therefore motor efficiency is key. Anser AI’s ability to optimise over complex operational use cases can reduce powertrain weight and minimises operational downtime.
Robotics
The robotics industry is set to witness the explosive growth of mobile product designed for use in domestic and industrial settings. Range and battery life will be key to adoption, as will cost reduction and precision.
Removing 17% BOM cost for leading automotive customer
We were challenged by an OEM customer to optimise an electric drive unit (EDU) as a complete system, incorporating motor, inverter, gearbox and control. We set up parallel system-level optimisation for suitable topologies based on the calibrated approach, investigated 9 parallel configurations including 3 x alternative magnet configurations, 3 x alternative slot-pole combinations, 7 x alternative hairpin winding configurations.
By running large scale multi-topology optimisations - in the region of ~3,000,000 candidate designs evaluated in 3 days - we achieved a 17% active material cost reduction, reducing the overall cost of the EDU by around 70Eur.
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Working with an innovative company to create new ways to manufacture
Working with a cutting-edge, confidential customer, we are helping them explore motor concepts that are inconceivable to manufacture with conventional processes.
We work in two main strands: one in design and prototyping hardware for early evaluation of advanced manufactured parts, and second, in building an AI-based capability for generating optimal designs that can exploit the many freedoms of the emerging advanced manufacturing techniques.
Coupling AI with engineering produces ideas that stretch the art of the possible and might just change the way we think about making things in the future.
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Helping deliver advanced drone technology
Working in a collaborative project with Greenjets, Whittle Labs & Cosworth, we were tasked with developing the core of a propulsion system optimisation platform for UAV drives.
The optimisation system enables motor designs to be adapted for different aircraft and flight profiles. Optimising the propulsion system shows huge potential for drones where the motor and the propellor system are tightly coupled and need to be optimised together. We deployed the Anser AI engine to build a generalised propulsion system model which enables rapid optimisation of the complete aircraft.
It’s a great example of where the power of Anser AI lets you deliver more at system level rather than being constrained to optimising components.
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