engineering the
embedded world

Energy & Drives

Let us develop your product! From the moment your idea is born all the way to production!

As a development service provider, we design your turnkey power electronics, drive and energy storage systems and develop complete devices including all electronic components, the firmware and the appropriate housing. Our stable and mature development processes enable the highest quality and punctual delivery of your development results.

Engineering Services

Development activities

Series production and the product life cycle

  • Once development has been completed, we expertly adjust your production - or that of an EMS - and support your system throughout its entire life cycle.
  • We take the pressure off your team by providing competent support for your successful brand-name products.
  • To support your obsolescence management, we find and qualify replacement components.
  • In the event of component discontinuations, we will help you revise your systems and products.

Developed Products

Drive systems

  • Robust turnkey drive systems up to 100 kW
  • Intelligent power electronics to maximise system efficiency and minimise electrical grid perturbation
  • Decentralised servo controllers in IP 65 up to 30 kW
  • Ultracapacitor modules to reduce grid load
  • Customised real-time fieldbus systems
  • Safety functions for drive systems such as
    • STO, SBC, SS1, SLP, SLS
    • Safe movement to a safe position (emergency run)
    • Customer-specific safety functions
  • AC motors: permanent magnet, IPM servomotors, reluctance motors, asynchronous motors 
  • DC motors: series, shunt, compound machines
  • Feed-in inverter up to 350 kW
  • Customer-specific drive test stands

Power electronics

  • Functionally safe power electronic systems up to 500 kW
  • Control electronics taking into account embedded security
  • Integration of active single-phase and three-phase power factor correction (PFC) filters up to 12 kW
  • Inverters for the control of electric drives or for generating plants taking into account the Grid Codes up to 1500 V
  • High power chargers for electromobility
    • also in accordance with German calibration law and UL 1998 for the North American market.
  • Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance implemented in the control electronics
  • EMC and thermally optimised sheet metal and die-cast housings
  • Heat sink made of extruded aluminium and die-cast profiles, as well as water-cooled in brazing technology or with inserted tubes

Energy storage solutions

  • Certified customer-specific, compact energy storage modules - also for use under extreme environmental conditions - based on
    • Ultracapacitors
    • Li-Ion technology
    • Lead-acid flow accumulators
    • Hybrid systems
  • Realisation of optimal condition monitoring

Standards and Directives

We are certified to IEC 61508 and work to the following standards and directives among others

  • Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
  • Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU
  • EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
  • IEC 61508: “Functional Safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems”
  • ISO 13849: “Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems”
  • IEC 62061: “Safety of machinery – functional safety of electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related control systems”
  • EN 12100: “Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction”
  • IEC 61131: “Programmable controllers”
  • IEC 61800: “Adjustable speed electrical power drive systems”
  • IEC 60034: “Rotating electrical machinery”
  • IEC 60529: “Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)”
  • EN 60204: “Safety of machinery - Electrical equipment of machines”
  • EN 60439: “Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies”
  • EN 50272-2: “Safety requirements for secondary batteries and battery installations”
  • EN 62391: “Fixed electric double-layer capacitors for use in electric and electronic equipment”
  • EN 62109: “Safety of power converters for use in photovoltaic power systems”
  • EN 62477: “Safety requirements for power electronic converter systems and equipment”

Who to contact

Lars Kauke

Head of Business Unit Energy & Drives
Marketing and Sales

Phone: +49 2303 30108-816
Mobile: +49 160 617 3030
Lars.Kauke(at)embex.de

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Tel.: +49 2303 30108-816
l.kauke(at)embeX.de