Motor Industry
Electric Machines are the world’s largest consumer of permanent magnetic materials and consequently drive huge amounts of product development globally.
Bunting Magnetics has a wealth of experience in surface mounted machines and internally mounted permanent magnet machines and our engineering team is always ready to help.
Some common design and discussion points are;
- Production Engineering
- Magnet Material Choice
- Magnet Shape / Cost
- Magnet Performance vs Temperature
- Magnet Operating Envelope
- Design for manufacture.
- Flat to Flat Magnet Assembly
- Arc to Arc – what diameters to choose
- Magnet shape tolerancing
- Adhesive applications
- Grinding tolerances / allowances
- Interference fits
- Avoid Tension – Support
- Optimising for design, space envelope, torque, inertia.
- 2D FEA
- 3D FEA – End Effects
- Diamerter / Length
- Speed / Control
- Eddy Current Reduction
- Laminate Magnets
- Axial
- Circumferential
- Lamination thickness
- Wire cutting with electrical insulation
- Magnet Retention
- Carbon Fibre
- Inconel
- Titanium
- Laminated sleeve
- Ferrous high tension steels
- Sleeve Fitting
- High Temperature Interference
- Press
- Liquid Nitrogen interference
- High Speed Rotor Effects
- Balancing
- De Coupling
- Transient effects
The topic of Permanent Magnet Electric Machines is truly vast, the best way to find out more about what we can do is to get in touch here.
