NEC Electronics Europe Announces the Formal Opening of its Recently Expanded Motor Control Laboratory Facilities in the UK

Motor control represents a large and diverse market in Europe from small appliances such as food processors, coffee makers etc to washing machines, dishwashers, pumps, fans up to large industrial drives. Whilst the requirements for motor control remain fundamentally the same across different applications, the methods used requires an expert understanding of motor theory, electromagnetics, power electronics, control theory, DSP techniques, embedded real time software development as well as the associated development and test facilities.

The improved motor control lab in the UK enables engineers to support its European customers in the demonstration and development of ever more advanced motor control solutions across various industrial applications. The lab is fully equipped to develop, test and demonstrate hardware and software solutions based on NEC Electronics’ latest 8-, 16- and 32-bit motor control ASSPs.

Customers are able to visit the lab to assess for themselves NEC Electronics’ motor control capabilities and to see how the company is able to develop standard as well as customer specific solutions. Customers send their motors to the lab for NEC Electronics engineers to test, tune and optimise the control prior to doing a full evaluation on the end application. Full evaluation may be done either in the motor control lab or at the customer’s premises with the full support of NEC Electronics’ systems engineers.