Electrification and electric mobility for machinery.

When analysing the characteristics of future products, three trends become clear:

• Customers ask for lower operational cost and less maintenance
• Product owners strive to offer added value to their products
• The world has developed a global environmental awareness

One solution to this is Electrification and Electric Mobility. By replacing fossil fuels with electric power, both environmental, cost and efficiency goals are reached. You also enable more user-friendly products compatible with future technologies. Take part of our approach on how to make your machinery electric.

Electrification has, so far, been largely about cars, trucks and other on-road vehicles as well as smaller power tools. However, electrically advanced systems outperform conventional ones for other machinery as well. Electrified non-road vehicles, such as mining trucks or fork lifts as well as electrified pump or steering systems, are already available on the market developed by well-known brands and with demonstrated benefits.

We’re convinced that electrification is a necessary step to take—and one that is also partly supported by governments and private initiatives—in order to stay ahead of competitors and adapt to market demands.

But where do you start? Based on the use case, different levels of electrification are recommended; electrified subsystems/accessories, mild hybrid, full hybrid or fully electric propulsion.

Semcon can support through the whole development chain from early strategy assessments to final verification:

• Establishing a strategy to reach new businesses
• Enhance the product with electrified sub-systems
• Integrate electrically powered drivetrain for full environmental and productivity benefits

A powerful offer in three steps

Electrification of vehicles and working machines is interdisciplinary and requires expertise from different areas of competence: Electrics and Electronics, mechanics, software, hardware, simulation and HMI to mention a few. Semcon has the unity and insight to support our partners in strategy planning as well as development of the products from non-electrified towards electrically powered ones, by applying an iterative process for stepwise product enhancement.

Our electrification offer is based on an iterative and interactive process, divided into three packages:

• Electrification strategy
• Power-up your sub-systems
• Go fully electric

The electrification strategy is defined based on your company’s vision and on market and customer needs, and a roadmap to reach the goals is formulated. If the roadmap specifies electrification of subsystems such as equipment and accessories as a beneficial step, this is further investigated and realized in the second package. And further on, if electrified propulsion either as hybrid or pure electric drive has shown beneficial, the development and integration of this is handled in the third package.