Siemens Simcenter MotorSolve 2020.2

Design motors based on realistic workloads
The typical design sequence of electric machines involve many iterations, especially during early stages of design. And identifying the most important load points for a given design problem is difficult.
In Simcenter Motorsolve 2020.2, we've added a user defined duty cycle based performance analysis capability. Therefore, the new capability allows the designers to incorporate realistic vehicle behavior into the design process and calculate losses for an arbitrary load profile.
By importing the machine performance requirements from Simcenter Amesim, Simcenter Motorsolve can use this data to advance the design process. The losses and top five most important load points are calculated.


Included are a number of standard drive cycles for the automotive sector. The users will have to supply the vehicle torque and rotor speed information to use the new feature.
Pulse Width Modulation analysis with arbitrary voltages
Calculating machine performances based on measured or arbitrary voltages using low frequency electromagnetic finite element analysis based calculations is time consuming or impractical, often due to high signal frequencies.
In Simcenter Motorsolve 2020.2, the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) analysis option can determine these results. An additional option of simulating arbitrary voltage profile based performance calculations is now part of the PWM analysis capability
Therefore, digital twins or model calibrations can be based off of measurements imported directly from dynamometers or other sources.


User specified arbitrary voltage profiles can be used in Simcenter Motorsolve 2020.2 to determine electric motor performance
Design Halbach Array electric motors in Simcenter Motorsolve 2020.2
New templates support the creation of Halbach array patterns with even and odd numbered magnet segments per pole. It also includes the ability to apply unevenly distributed segments with user defined magnetization directions. Here's an excerpt from "What is a Halbach array and how is it used in electric motors?" by Danielle Collins highlights their benefits:
"...electric motors based on the Halbach array offer measurable benefits over conventional designs, including high power density and high efficiency. One of the enablers of these benefits is that a Halbach array motor does not require laminations or back iron, so the motor is essentially ironless. This significantly reduces eddy current losses and hysteresis losses... "


Halbach array template in Simcenter Motorsolve 2020.2
Maximum torque and flux weakening control
Motor performance is highly dependent on the control strategy. This link impacts performance parameters like efficiency, loss and power output. In Simcenter Motorsolve 2020.2, the maximum torque per amps and flux weakening control strategy based optimal load point calculations have been added. Consequently, you can Description efficiency maps, loss maps and several others using these new control strategies.


With the newly added duty cycle based analysis feature, the design process is significantly improved on account of being based on realistic vehicle behavior and control strategies.
The enhancements made to the modeling capabilities of permanent magnets with regards to their irreversible demagnetization behaviour and defining permanent magnets as strong or weak in Simcenter MAGNET 2020.2 also apply to Simcenter Motorsolve.


Simcenter Motorsolve is the complete design and analysis software for permanent magnet, induction, synchronous, electronically, and brush-commutated machines. It leverages the fast nature of equivalent circuits and the accuracy of FEA, with the synergy of automating the nonproductive tasks for rapid and accurate analysis of electric machines.
Our products template-based interface is easy to use and flexible enough to handle practically any motor topology, with provision for custom rotors and stators. Typical FEA operations such as mesh and solver refinements, winding design, motion, and post-processing including the export of 1D models, are not required as the software handles these for the user. Performance parameters, waveforms, and field Descriptions are available with just a click.
With the new version 2020.2 just released, check this to see the highlights of the new version, including Duty Cycle based design and analysis of electric machines, and new Halbach array templates.
Using Simcenter MAGNET & Motorsolve






At the 2019 Siemens Media & Analyst Conference in New York, Siemens PLM Software announced that it is changing its name to Siemens Digital Industries Software. The company explains that the change reflects not only its position inside the core operating company, Siemens Digital Industries, but also its evolution from product lifecycle management (PLM) software to a broad provider of industrial software and services for digitalization.
Product: Siemens Simcenter MotorSolve
Version: 2020.2
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.plm.automation.siemens.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC *
Size: 463.5 mb


System requirements:
- Windows 10 x64 version 1909
Operating systems should include the latest Microsoft published updates.
- Microsoft.NET Framework 4.5.2 or higher is required
The recommended minimum hardware requirements are:

- Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD FX
- 2GB RAM
- 40 GB of free disk space
- Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 with normal font size selected and scaling set to 100%
- Graphics card: OpenGL compatible video card