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Mechatronics Systems Engineering Services

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High Pressure Gel Propellant Valve for Tactical missile

Product Development

Our Engineering Services group was created to provide custom solutions when off-the-shelf products are too expensive, oversized, or unnecessary. We also develop unique solutions for specialized needs.

When customers approach large firms for an innovative solution and prototype development, they are often shocked by the high costs. As a result, many abandon their ideas before even attempting development. This is where we step in. We provide cost-effective, practical solutions that help bring new ideas to life—because innovation is essential for the U.S. to remain competitive against low labor-cost countries..

Mechatronics Systems is a highly skilled, high-technology development firm delivering innovative and practical product designs at affordable prices. Our mission is simple: to create solutions that help our customers succeed and drive profitability.

Sustaining Engineering and Product Support

In addition to new product development, Mechatronics Systems provides engineering services for maintaining obsolete technology. Machine builders and large end-users rely on us to support legacy motors, drives, and controllers when replacement parts are no longer available. We develop practical, cost-effective retrofit solutions to keep their equipment running.

Our goal is simple: provide practical, economical solutions that keep operations profitable!

High-Precision AC Brushless Motor

Engineering and Development Capabilities

For the last 15 years, Mechatronics Systems has helped customers with:

  • New product design, prototyping, and testing
  • Verification and field failure analysis of existing products
  • Buy vs. make decisions
  • Independent testing and evaluation of various products

 

We specialize in:

  • DC motor design
  • High-performance Brushless motors and Drive controls for servo applications
  • Low-cost Brushless motors and controls to replace DC and Induction motors
  • State of the art drive electronics with current, velocity, and position control
  • Vector control and Sensorless brushless drives
  • Independent Performance analysis and verification of motor-drive systems
  • Mechanical design of rotating electromechanical control systems

 

Any motor control system, whether a hybrid vehicle, medical diagnostics machine, antenna positioning system, washing machine, or treadmill, requires the same steps in its development:

  • Product definition and specification
  • Computer simulation
  • Design of components and prototyping
  • Circuit boards layout and fabrication
  • Microprocessor firmware design
  • System testing and verification
  • Thermal testing, reliability, cost, packaging, and UL/CE testing
  • Tooling and manufacturing assemblies process design
  • Pre-Production run

 

Understanding the industry, application, and final product cost is crucial. Mechatronics Systems' small, dedicated engineering team works with you directly—no bureaucracy.

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