Industrial manufacturers of electronic devices face the problem of redesigning the power electronics for each new product that is going to be launched to the market. In this process, the bottleneck is the design of the magnetic components that are present in the power converters. The design of the magnetics takes around 6 months on average and the resulting designs are almost never satisfactory. Surprisingly, the same design methods have been used for the last decades. These methods generate delays and excessive costs during the manufacturing process and hold back the advancements in power electronics. SP Control is a company specialized in providing solutions for industrial companies to improve their processes. Our software FRENETIC, based on our proprietary AI technology, has attained great interest in the power converters market due to its capacity to achieve optimal designs for magnetics in just a few hours versus the current 6 months, meaning a design time reduction of nearly 100%. As a result, it allows to reduce the manufacturing costs and size by half. A minimum viable version of FRENETIC is being commercialised in a software design service model entering the power electronics market and bringing great benefits to our clients. Our objective is to disrupt the power electronics market with the first solution that will allow the industrial companies to obtain optimal designs for their magnetics in a matter of hours, reducing their manufacturing costs and their time-to-market. In order to take the fully evolved version of FRENETIC to the market, we need to scaleup our business model and demonstrate its value in a fully operative environment. In a market which value in 2023 has been estimated in €46 billion, the successful market uptake of our innovation represents a breakthrough in industrial design and a great business opportunity as large as €5 billion.

The overarching goal of PowerizeD is to develop breakthrough technologies of digitalized and intelligent power electronics, in order to enable sustainable and resilient energy generation, transmission and applications. PowerizeD enhances the level of mechanical and electrical integration of new driver circuits into power electronics and allows for the first time common optimization of all power switch functionalities. Regarding data sharing along the value chain, PowerizeD drives the novel approach of Federated Learning as a methodical approach to an intrinsically encrypted transfer of confidential and proprietary data. Also new is the usage of detailed electrical physical models in digital twins of real time digitally monitored and controlled power electronic devices. Unlike other projects focusing on competence and technology with limited effort on demonstration, this project will start from vital societal needs, by identifying and analyzing the key generic technology challenges from broad application scopes. Major effort will be spent on cross-domain research and innovation. The developed technologies will be demonstrated and evaluated via a large number of universally applicable results. To realize this ambition, a large project consortium will incorporate the needed competencies and resources along the whole value chain. 24 Large Entities, 19 Small Medium Enterprises and 22 research partners from 12 EU countries – representing the entire value chain from materials to “system of systems” – strive to demonstrate the applicability of these innovative approaches to multiple industrial domains. Among the concrete objectives are a 25% reduction or power losses, a device and system lifetime increase of 30%, a chip size reduction of at least 10% and a shortening of the design time by 50%. By this, PowerizeD addresses the three megatrends Independence, Sustainability and Digitalization, thereby opening pathways to massive economic and societal benefits for the EU.