Coherences Between Production Technology and Performance of Electric Traction Drives

Coherences between production technology and performance of electric traction drives are published or based on experiential knowledge. The content of this paper shall represent an essential basis for intentions of improving future research and development purposes of production technologies for traction drives, but also of electric machine designs in general. The basic ambition of engineering a new manufacturing technology is to improve the performance of a product, taking several boundary conditions into account, like costs or cycle times. It has to be considered that the conflict area of production and performance are connected by physical characteristics, which are determined by the geometric and material compositions of the electric machine in this context. It is evident that the physical characteristics have a direct impact on the performance of electric machines. However, the production technology has a straight and unavoidable influence on the physical characteristic. An example for this is the slot fill factor, which is determined by the winding technology, but influences the performance of the machine significantly. First, known coherences between physical characteristics and performance of electric machines are considered. Therefore, an extensive summary of technical literature and publications at the current state of the art in science applications is used as a starting point. To give the best possible overview, a summary and visualization dependency matrix is created, in which the various elements of physical characteristic and the resulting performance of the electric machine are compared against each other. Next, the main influences of the different manufacturing processes on the characteristics of electric machines are presented, especially focusing on the winding technology. These contents are also transferred into the dependency matrix.