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Driving the Electric Revolution:
Engage with…. Control Techniques
Control Techniques UK
8th October 2020

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Presenters
Gareth Jones
Regional Director, UK
and Ireland
Gareth.Jones@mail.nidec.com
Andy Green
Business Development
Manger
Andy.Green@mail.nidec.com
Dr. Richard Gibson
Product Development
Manager
Richard.Gibson@mail.nidec.com
Jon Holman-White
VP R&D
Jonathan.Holman-
White@mail.nidec.com

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Agenda
Overview of Nidec and Control Techniques
Our growing UK footprint
UK production scaling up for increasing sales volume
Research and Development driving our technical advantage
What do we do?
Drive and power expertise to deliver your project success

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Nidec Corporation
WORLD’S #1 FOR ADVANCED
MOTOR AND DRIVE TECHNOLOGY
COMPANIESFounded
230+
Headquarters
Kyoto
2019 GROUP
TURNOVER
$14.6B1973

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The World’s No. 1 Manufacturer of Motor and Drive Technology
From small precision to super-large motors
(0.02 W – 75 MW!)
A company that works for everything that spins and moves
Today we sell 5 billion motors every year

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Control Techniques – Drive Specialist
10,000+
OEM Customers
5 Million+
Installed units
Active in 70
Countries
1,700+
Employees
55
Automation
Centres
OVERVIEW

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Control Techniques – Innovation Driven Since 1973
10,000+
OEM Customers
5 Million+
Installed units
Active in 70
Countries
1,000+
Employees
55
Automation Centres
Drive Specialists Since 1973
700 UK Team
Design, Manufacture,
Sales

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A Complete range of AC, Servo, DC drives for every application
Optimised Product Ranges
Elevator drivesDC drivesAC, servo and power control for industryAC drives for process control
Unidrive M400 – M700 Mentor MP E300Digitax HD / SFF600 and DFS Cabinet Drives
Energy efficient drive family for process
applications such as pumping, ventilation &
compression
Drive family ranging from
general purpose to high
performance motor control
Intelligent, and
dynamic servo
drive range
High performance
DC drive
Dedicated for elevator/
lift application
1.1 kW – 2.8 MW (1.5 – 4,200 hp)
200, 400, 575, 690 V
0.25 kW – 2.8 MW (0.33 – 4,200 hp)
100, 200, 400, 575, 690 V
0.72 – 18.8 Nm
(6.4 – 166.5 lb.in)
25 – 7400 A
24 – 400 V, 575 V,
690 V
6.2 – 450 A
200, 400, 500, 575, 690 V
Unidrive hd, fm
and fan blown
High performance
brushless AC servo
motor range
0.72 – 126 Nm
Commander C
General
Purpose
Easy to use General
Purpose Drives
Range
0.25 kW – 130kW
100, 200, 400, 575,
690 V

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Nidec UK and Ireland Footprint ~700 People
UK & Ireland Drive Centre
Engineering, Manufacturing and R&D
Control Techniques
Newtown, Manufacturing
400 People
Control Techniques
Newtown, Global HQ & R&D
150 People
Control Techniques
Telford Drive Centre
32 People
Control Techniques Dynamics
Andover Motor R&D and Manufacture
130 People

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Agenda
Overview of Nidec and Control Techniques
Our growing UK footprint
UK production scaling up for increasing sales volume
Research and Development driving our technical advantage
What do we do?
Drive and power expertise to deliver your project success

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Control Techniques mfg locations
Subcontractor
Increasing UK Production
Completion in September 2020
(despite COVID19)
Insourcing production from China
Doubling UK Capability without
increasing overhead or footprint
Plant Re-layout & Consolidation to create
Factory within a Factory’
Recruitment & Training of x64 Employees,
44 re-deployed, 20 Ext Recruit

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R&D Overview
Newtown, Wales, UK
World Class R&D Facilities
Advanced Technology Highly Skilled Engineers
• Accredited, quality managed labs UKAS
Cal.
• Drive test capacity: 5MW
• Motor Test capacity: 1kW à 500kW
• Dedicated Software Test Lab & Team
Global Approvals
46%
34%
6%
14%
R&D Engineers
SW Eng
E&E Eng
Mech Eng
Management &
Lab Tech
Guangming, Shenzhen
TechMahindra, Pune
§ High Performance Motor Control
§ Motion, Safety & Network technologies
§ IGBT driver designs to
optimise efficiency & performance
§ Cutting edge drive thermal protection
§ Use of SiC Advanced Semi-Conductor
materials & Research into GaN devices.
§ High Voltage SMPS technologies
§ Advanced DC link designs.
• 28% Staff joined as CT Graduates
• 30% staff CEng or pursuing CEng
• Avg. 11 years of Service.
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KB, Florida
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Research and Development Lab Capability
Integrated Design Toolset
Rapid Prototyping EMC compliance lab
Measurement and
Inspection
Environmental Conditioning
and testing
System Integration Testing Industrial Power Lab

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R & D – Professional Development
E3 Academy, IET accredited graduate programme
Personal Development Planning
Talent Management Programme

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Agenda
Overview of Nidec and Control Techniques
Our growing UK footprint
UK production scaling up for increasing sales volume
Research and Development driving our technical advantage
What do we do?
Drive and power expertise to deliver your project success

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How we apply our expertise
Elevators Cranes
Food &
Beverage
Stage &
Theatre Test Stands Winding Printing Metals Textiles
Expertise where you need it..
..whatever your application we have a drive to suit your needs
UCE,
UK
Frauenfeld Hospital,
Switzerland
Felixstowe,
UK
Centre Vinicole Champagne,
Nicolas Feuillatte, France
Trekwerk,
Netherlands
D & V Electronics,
Canada
APS Engineering,
UK
Penn
Engineering,
USA
Freudenberg
Performance Materials,
Germany

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Some of the more interesting applications
Magway - Goods Transportation
Power Generation Inverters
Turbo Machinery
High Speed / High Power
Automotive Test Rigs
Buck/Boost DC to DC conversion
Marine Deck Systems
High Power Servo Positioning
Linear Motors

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The Challenge:
How to move billions of tons of freight efficiently, cleanly and reliably
across geographies and into the hearts of our cities, while freeing up other
transport infrastructure capacity?

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The Solution:
Magway
A high speed electrified rail system,
laid within a HDPE pipe of less than 1m diameter.

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l Control Techniques are teaming up with Magway to help
them develop a power solution that meets the demanding
needs of the application
l Initially we are using our standard drive technology
- We have unlocked parts of our firmware to allow them to
innovate a unique sensorless linear motor control algorithm
- Future potential to develop a packaged motor drive solution
The Solution
Control Techniques
Digitax HD Servo Drive
PM Linear Motor,
Manufactured by Force Engineering

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Control Techniques’ Solution
SOLUTION
Common DC bus
simplifies connectivity
and enables the
recirculation of
braking energy.
Unlocking parts of
our firmware allows
Magway to innovate
a unique sensorless
linear motor control
algorithm.
Future potential to
develop an optimised
motor drive solution
specifically for the
application.
Open, standard Ethernet
communications provides
opportunity for a flexible,
robust, fault tolerant network
with readily available,
proven infrastructure.
Initial opportunities of
46 km of dual direction
track and up to
£153 m investment.

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The Challenge:
Minimising the cost of Wind Power. Reducing carbon emissions,
alleviating fuel poverty and improving energy security

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The Solution:
Next generation WTGs. Cost effective axial flux machine demonstrating
exceptional efficiency without copper and rare earth magnets

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Control Techniques Role
25% scale prototype system -
generator rated 90kNm @ 30 rpm
(250kW) tested and verified at
Catapult, Blythe
3.5m diameter and only 0.4m deep.
Reduced mass compared to
traditional machines leads to lighter
structures and associated
foundations
9 phase inverter / generator
minimises torque ripple.
Active rectifier returns energy
to the grid
400 / 690V inverters –
no need for MV / HV

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Control Techniques Role Continued..
Uses standard 'off the peg’
Control Techniques M700
VSDs
Additional 'slices' for increase
power. Scalable to 20 MW
Uses low cost ferrite magnets
- 40 x cheaper than rare earth
- not politically sensitive
Aluminium foil windings
- Reduces weight
Are there other
applications for this type of
machine?

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Our Challenge:
To deliver innovative automotive engine / motor / transmission
test systems for the development of sustainable transport

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With system integration and consulting partners Absolute Automation & XEV Power, Control Techniques
have recently delivered this 526kW transmission dyno and 350kW Battery Emulator System to
UK Automotive Test & Development house Drive System Design.
Recent Delivery: - Transmission Dyno + Battery Emulator
Inverter / Motor
under test
690V ac
0-1100V DC
Customer
Supply
400V AC
Active Front End
M700-11403770D-4
1000kVA
DC Link 750V DC
M700-11403770D-5.
1767 Amps at 440V AC @ 4kHz
2 off M700-11403770D-3.
1060 Amps at 440V AC @ 4kHz
Input
526/526kW
Absorbers
537/537kW
400kW
1100VDC
AFE
Transmission Dyno.
Back to back cabinet
Battery Emulator
XeV Power

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Dynamometer Drives – Key Features
AC Drives for Dynamometers. Parallelable power stages to 730 Amps.
AFEs, VSDs and battery emulators using common product.
Common DC link configurations. High Switching Frequencies
Elevated shaft speeds Induction & PM machine
field weakening capability. Open Loop PM machine
control. Torque motors. Magnet assist motors
Faster Processing, more resolution. Torque
Linearisation, Electronic Torque Pulse Simulation.
Inertia and loss compensation
Active Front End - seamlessly import / export
clean power at user-defined unity power factor. DC
link voltage boosting. Power feed forward control
Modern Ethernet comms systems for
control and data acquisition. Fast Peer
to Peer control.
On-board PLC (Codesys) - multiple
control options and subsequent benefits
Battery Emulation / DC Source using
inverters. Buck or boost, bi-directional unipolar
or optional bi-polar.

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Something big is happening…
…The Countdown has Started
At 4pm on Thursday, October 15, 2020
Control Techniques will launch the next stage in its evolution
www.driveobsessed.com