ECM took top honors for its PrintStator SaaS that enables any
innovator to devise, optimize, and commercialize premium
efficiency, axial flux electric machines.
US Electric motor design and software company, ECM PCB Stator
Tech, was announced a winner today in the 2024 Automate Innovation
Awards.
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ECM won the Software category for its PrintStator Motor CAD
platform. The Boston-based company’s CEO, Brian Casey, will accept
the award at a ceremony in Chicago, May 6.
Automate Innovation Awards and Show
Hosted by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the
Automate Innovation Awards celebrate technologies pushing
boundaries in the field of industrial automation. An independent
judging panel selected winners based on measurable impact in
increasing system efficiencies, reducing costs, and improving
design quality.
The Automate Innovation Awards coincide with Automate 2024—North
America’s largest automation and robotics tradeshow, held this year
in Chicago May 6-9.
At Automate 2024, ECM will host an exhibit and ECM CEO Brian
Casey will attend the May 6 Automate Innovation Awards ceremony and
deliver an Automate Innovation Stage presentation on PrintStator
PCB Stator electric motor design May 7.
“ECM is honored to receive this Automate Innovation Awards
recognition for our PrintStator Motor CAD platform. Advancing 21st
century automation will require a nextgen upgrade to electric motor
design and manufacturing. As SaaS, PrintStator puts that at the
fingertips of any innovator in robotics, consumer electronics,
conveyors – you name it,” said ECM CEO Brian Casey.
Motor as Software
As a company, ECM pairs PrintStator Motor CAD to patented PCB
Stator innovation to create next generation electric machines that
are smaller, quieter, and more energy and space efficient. In
January 2024, ECM launched PrintStator as public
software-as-a-service (SaaS) product at CES.
As an innovation tool, PrintStator fundamentally transforms the
way electric motors are designed and manufactured. From the
cloud-based interface, users can dial-in precise performance and
dimensional specs to create optimized motor solutions for multiple
verticals: Consumer Electronics, HVAC, E-Mobility, Medical,
Robotics, Aerospace, and more.
“PrintStator offers innovators unparalleled design optimization.
For example, if a global conveyor manufacturer needs a 1.05 kW
electric motor that achieves 94% efficiency, conforms to an exact
form factor, and complies with regional energy performance
requirements PrintStator can design that,” said ECM CEO Brian
Casey.
ECM’s PrintStator is also an advanced design-to-manufacture
tool. As a SaaS offering, the Motor CAD platform allows companies
with manufacturing capacity to advance designs immediately to
production. PrintStator users without manufacturing capability can
leverage the global capacity of the printed-circuit board industry
to enable rapid production of optimized electric motors.
“With PrintStator, ECM aims to positively disrupt an electric
motor space that hasn’t seen transformative innovation for eons.
PrintStator enables any innovator in any sector to become a
designer and producer of optimized electric motors for any
application,” said ECM CEO Brian Casey.
Scalability and Sustainability
In addition to delivering performance and cost advantages to
electrically powered industries, PrintStator offers significant
benefits to energy sustainability.
Research underscores that conventional electric motor systems
account for over 50% of global electricity consumption and require
substantial raw materials to produce. The US and EU project that
converting to next generation electric motor technology could
eliminate over 100 million tons of CO2 emissions and save over $30
billion in energy costs.
PCB Stator motors designed via PrintStator are up to 70% lighter
than conventional options, while achieving efficiencies in excess
of 90% and requiring 80% less raw materials (namely, copper).
ECM is working with several global manufacturing companies to
incorporate PrintStator, PCB Stator solutions into commercial and
industrial devices compliant with Minimum Energy Performance
Standards (MEPs).
Award Winning IP
PrintStator and ECM’s integrated PCB Stator technology have
earned 12 US patents. This list has grown (and will continue to
grow) based on persistent R&D and upgrades shaped by
PrintStator user input worldwide.
ECM has structured PrintStator for constant product improvement
via a PrintStator user-group program. Member feedback funnels into
consistent updates of the Motor CAD platform to propel the global
adoption and evolution of PrintStator as a disruptive
technology.
ECM’s Automate Innovation Awards distinction adds to a tally of
recent technology competition accolades. The company’s PCB Stator
electric motor solutions and software have earned 14 award
distinctions. ECM was announced a 2024 CES Innovation Awards
Honoree and a winner in the 2023 Industrial Design, Engineering
& Automation (IDEA) Awards for PrintStator. ECM took top honors
in The 2023 SaaS Awards for PrintStator—winning four categories
(including Bespoke SaaS Solution of The Year). In October, ECM won
the Design World LEAP Awards’ Software category. ECM also earned an
Electronic Design Power Best Award for its CAD Customizable, Unum
Potentia, Electric Motor Controller that enables IE5 efficiency
Infinite Use Cases
PrintStator has been leveraged to integrate ECM’s advanced PCB
Stator electric motor technology into numerous applications. That
includes collaborating with partners to design smaller, lighter,
and more efficient electric motors for consumer appliances,
robotics, aerospace, e-bicycles, medical tools, and haptic
devices.
ECM believes the release of its advanced MotorCAD platform as
SaaS will serve accelerating demand for optimized PCB Stator
machines.
“The need for specialized electric motors is an overlooked
technology trend. The world will require billions of specialized
motors annually—in every vertical imaginable—designed to precise
performance, efficiency, and size. In ECM’s view, the best way to
serve that electric motor future is to offer PrintStator Motor CAD
to the public as SaaS,” said ECM CEO Brian Casey.
About ECM
ECM PCB Stator Tech uses advanced Motor CAD and patented PCB
Stator—printed circuit board—technology to create next generation
electric motors for multiple applications. ECM’s award-winning
PrintStator software powers the design, manufacture, and
integration of PCB Stator motors that are lighter, quieter, and
more energy and space efficient across a broad range of use cases.
ECM designed motors achieve efficiencies in excess of 90% while
requiring up to 70% less raw materials to produce.
ECM has collaborated with multiple organizations to create
optimized motor solutions across a variety of verticals: HVAC,
Consumer Electronics, E-Mobility, Fitness, Medical, Robotics,
Renewable Energy, Aerospace, Defense, and more.
ECM’s design partners include aerospace and defense innovator L3
Harris, global electronics manufacturer Celestica, and consumer
electronics startup Nodo Film Systems.
ECM is a 2024 CES Innovation Awards Honoree and winner of four
International SaaS Awards—including SaaS Solution of The Year, Best
SaaS Product For CSR, Sustainability And ESG, and Best SaaS Product
For Engineering Management, PLM Or CAD. ECM’s PrintStator software
is also a Machine Design IDEA Awards and Design World LEAP Awards
winner.
ECM maintains offices in Boston (MA), Bozeman (MT), and two
locations in Europe.
You can learn more about ECM’s PCB Stator technology and
PrintStator Motor CAD platform at www.pcbstator.com and via this
video: “How Does a PCB Stator Work?” For inquiries regarding PCB
motors and custom solutions contact info@pcbstator.com.
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