- What is the cost-effectiveness of implementing JMAG?
Mr. Tsuruta It is difficult to give you a specific figure for the cost-effectiveness
of implementing JMAG, but the cost of building one prototype is quite expensive.
Normally, we would have to build several prototypes to develop a product,
but, by using JMAG, we only need to build one.We have been able to reduce
at least the cost required to build several prototypes.
Mr. Miyazaki Even with the cost-effectiveness, as the world advances, our customers
will no longer consider any proposal that has not been investigated thoroughly
through simulation. In other words, you can't even step into the ring without
using these simulations. The cost-effectiveness is important, but without
this technology a sale can't be made. We wouldn't be able to proposal any
type of product to our customers. For that reason, CAE is becoming a standardized
tool. For instance, we can either approach a customer in a week with a
prototype for a proposal, or we can approach them with our experience and
a proposal that has been simulated. But, a prototype cannot be built in
a week and even if we were able to build one in a month, by the time we
took it to the customer, they would have already placed an order with the
competitor that proposed a product in that first week. There would be no
way to compete. The computer won't design the product for you, so the engineers
use their cumulative experience and JMAG as a tool, and then those results
are provided to the customer.
Magnetic flux density distribution
Electromagnetic force of the stroke for the rotor
Rotor stroke versus coil current