Nidec Develops Proof of Concept (PoC) for Digital Twin-type Intelligent Motor®

PublishTime： 2023-07-01 Article Source：NIDEC News

Nidec Corporation (“Nidec” or the “Company”) today announced that it has developed a proof of concept (PoC) to realize an “Intelligent Motor® solution,” a system that the Company defined to adopt (i) Intelligent Motors®*¹, which are equipped with microcomputers and data coupling and time synchronization functions, and (ii) products with an Intelligent Motor®, to digital twin*².

As DX and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) become mainstream the time to serve as solutions for labor shortage-stricken production sites(that are struggling with factory launch, education, supervising, maintenance work, etc.), Nidec has successfully created the following three solutions that comprise the technical features of Intelligent Motor® solutions for such issues:

1. A system to reproduce issues from reality in a virtual space and conduct a test (cloud technology);

2. A system where even those not experts in 1 above can reproduce such issues in a virtual space (GUI technology); and

3. A system to incorporate edge computing into a motor, and bring it to the IoT market.

In verifying the aforementioned concept, Nidec selected a triaxial parallel link robot*³ as our theme this time, after anticipating proposing Intelligent Motor® solutions to robot manufacturers. With intelligence-equipped motors operating in collaboration with one another and with high accuracy, the Company succeeded in operating a robot without the use of a central control unit, while reproducing the robot’s virtual counterpart in a virtual space. Thus, using GUI fully, Nidec designed and verified the virtual robot’s operation program, and developed a next-generation development environment that reflects the operating program in the robot in the actual space via wireless communications, to verify the above functional operations.

The above technology can: (i) reduce, or even eliminate, the load on motor-assembled equipment’s central control unit; and (ii) verify any changes to the system – ranging from changes to a motor’s application to issues that occurred in the workplace – in a cloud-based virtual space, and implement those changes in the actual space in real-time. Hence, the technology will likely serve as a solution for labor shortage at factories around the world by creating a digital twin world easily.

Nidec is poised to provide this Intelligent Motor® solution to enhance the additional values of motors in the world and create a more affluent society.

*1. Intelligent Motor®: A Nidec-developed motor with a built-in compact computer. The motor’s user can control the motor easily with a wireless network, and obtain the location, speed, torque, and various other information on the motor. Intelligent Motor is a registered trademark of Nidec Corporation.

*2. Digital twin: A system, based on real-time information gathering and analysis, that reproduces an actual environment in a virtual space.

*3 PoC (Proof of Concept): Advance verification of the feasibility of a new idea or concept, and its effects among others.

*4. This press release, which features a product that realizes digital twin as an example, is not intended to develop or sell any robot itself.

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