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SPEED: Electric Machine Design Software

SPEED is leading electric machine design software that provides detailed finite element analysis and fast analytical calculations for motors, generators, and alternators. It has over 150 corporate accounts and 1500 users worldwide. SPEED covers a wide range of machine types and applications in automotive, aerospace, industrial, medical, and other industries. In addition to the software, SPEED offers training, support, documentation, and consulting services to aid electric machine design.

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SPEED: Electric Machine Design Software

SPEED is leading electric machine design software that provides detailed finite element analysis and fast analytical calculations for motors, generators, and alternators. It has over 150 corporate accounts and 1500 users worldwide. SPEED covers a wide range of machine types and applications in automotive, aerospace, industrial, medical, and other industries. In addition to the software, SPEED offers training, support, documentation, and consulting services to aid electric machine design.

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SPEED: Software for Electric Machine Design and Analysis

Markus Anders

What is SPEED?
The leading design software for electric machines Detailed analysis with finite-element links or finite-embedded solver for
Motors, Generators and Alternators including inverters and other electronic controls

Application areas (main)


Automotive including electric & hybrid vehicles Aerospace Industrial and automation Domestic appliances Power tools Medical systems

Over 150 corporate accounts


Over 1500 users A Worldwide Distributors Network including support Operating in all industrialized countries

What is SPEED?

SPEED brings authority in electrical machine theory and design


based on a vast range of applications in real product design much more than just a calculator

Not just software, but as well as


Training, Technical support, Documentation (manuals, tutorials and electrical machine theory books) Engineering services and Consulting through the distributors

Electric machine calculations: In general

Electric machine calculations using SPEED: not to


replace the designer but provide a fast calculation tool to try ideas

SPEED

The SPEED Software

Analytical based so gives near instantaneous calculation speeds


input dimensions, select materials and drive and calculate performance
Initial Design 10 Minutes Optimized Design within hours

Specialised user interface to ease data input and interpretation of results


dedicated geometry and winding editors produces performance graphs to aid understanding

Detailed analysis with finite-element links or


The embedded finite-element solver for key problems

The SPEED software programs


The following machine types are available:
brushless permanent magnet and wound-field AC synchronous

PC-BDC
induction

PC-IMD
switched reluctance

PC-SRD direct current (PM) PC-DCM wound field and PM commutator PC-WFC

The SPEED Software history (main programs)


1986 Speed Laboratory set up
1987 PC-SRD released (DOS) 1989 PC-BDC released (DOS) 1992 PC-DCM released (DOS) 1994 PC-IMD released (DOS) 2000 Release of full Windows versions 2004 PC-WFC released 2011 CD-adapco acquired SPEED in June 2011

Present Release versions (2011): PC-SRD 8.8, PC-BDC 9.1 PC-IMD 4.1, PC-DCM 3.9 and PC-WFC 2.6

... Continuing development ...

SPEED PC-BDC machine types


more than 40 basic standard templates

SPEED PC-IMD machine types


more than 40 basic standard templates

SPEED PC-SRD machine types

SPEED PC-DCM machine types

SPEED PC-WFC machine types

SPEED in use: Define the geometry The outline editor

SPEED in use: Select material from the material database

SPEED in use: Definition of the material using the Data Base Manager programs

SPEED in use: Definition of the winding The winding editor

SPEED in use: The Template editor input data for


calculation options, temperature, control parameters, etc.

SPEED in use: Graphical Output


graphical feedback available

range of

SPEED in use: Output design sheet


large range of numerical values available

SPEED in use: GoFER


Go to Finite-Elements and Return

or use the embedded FE-solver directly (PC-BDC only)

SPEED in use: Scripting (ActiveX)

GoTAR: Go to Thermal Analysis and Return

ActiveX links allows


automated linkage to other software packages such as

Visual Basic, Matlab, Motor-CAD and more

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