"Clean Sheet" Custom Solutions

A "clean sheet" custom electric motor, drive or gear motor solution, designed specifically for your OEM application, can often be the correct choice when deciding on whether or not to customize or "clean sheet" a totally new design for an application. A project's cost objectives, volumes, or specific technical requirements may lead toward a "clean sheet" custom electric motor or gear motor solution. If this is the case, SDTs' team of experienced engineering professionals are ready to help along the way, from concept through production.

SDT has complete engineering and design capabilities using both 2D and 3D modeling platforms and an in-house tooling and modeling shop to machine and assemble prototypes. Prototype tooling and SLA modeling are also available. Our performance testing laboratory enables performance and life testing of all of our new designs using state of the art dynamometers, computer aided design programs, automated test stations, and temperature testing.

If your project calls for a custom OEM electric motor, gear motor or custom OEM motor assembly, let SDT help you weigh the options and make sure your project is a success!.

Design process using design methodologies with advanced quality planning, production engineering, and end-to-end project management

Our core focus is to work as an extension to our customer’s design capability from the outset. This means developing motor & drive concepts for volume applications that meet exacting technical and commercial specifications.

We contribute at every design level, from initial design sketches and 3D-concept models, through to rapid prototypes for ‘proof of concept’. We work within a multi-disciplinary team blending NPI design methodologies with advanced quality planning, production engineering, and end-to-end project management.

Using the latest in motor design technology, most up-date equipment, proprietary software and leading CAD systems, our engineers will respond quickly and efficiently to keep your project development on schedule.

Our Design Capability encompasses FEA modeling & CAD for our Motors, drives and gears design with speed (2D) and vector field (3D) analysis alongside we use developed software for electro-magnetic modelling of electric machines.

We verify the performance prior to a prototype design. These software tools are used to virtually model the various components within the motor and drive unit before we expend cost and time manufacturing. Such software tools can model the performance, both statically and dynamically, to an extremely high level of accuracy. We can therefore provide estimated performance data very early in the design process.

New and customised products can thus be assessed for both form and fit very early in the design process.

As well as general mechanical software tools, Ultimately, all the software tools provide allow us to reduce the development time considerably and deliver an optimum solution quickly and efficiently.

Proof of concept’ can be manufactured at low cost using various rapid prototyping processes

Once the software models are complete, we produce rapid prototypes using various additive processes such as selective laser sintering (SLS), fused deposition modelling (FDM), stereolithography, as well as rapid casting technologies. The benefit of these technologies is that a ‘proof of concept’ can be manufactured in literally days and at low cost. Depending on the type of technology used, the rapid prototypes can be used as space samples through to working samples to test form fit and function.

The benefit of rapid prototyping is that working samples can be provided at a fraction of the cost compared to using conventional methods.

Performance & application testing

We bench test product using high-performance dynamometers as well as simulate applications.

We use high-performance dynamometers to quickly provide an understanding of the performance and efficiency of a given test sample and to compare results previously taken or from a competitor’s product.

We can test for durability, , noise (acoustic and electrical), vibration and full EMC and environmental test facilities with our partner company,

Test facility also houses customer-specific equipment that we use to ensure our test data is as near as possible to our customer specific application requirements.

All products designed and manufactured undergo a variety of tests through the design lifecycle to ensure that our products are fit-for-purpose and will meet our customers exacting needs.