The C&C²-Approach in a Mechanical and Electromagnetic Multi Domain Setup – Identifying Possibilities and Challenges Throughout Product Engineering of an Additively Manufactured Transverse Flux Machine Stator

The development of electric machines brings together engineers from different fields and disciplines. In order to provide a common base model of the system in development and to serve as a communication tool between the engineers, the Contact and Channel Approach (C&C²-A) is utilized for the mechanical and electromagnetic domain simultaneously for the first time. By incorporating different views and interests into the design process concurrently, new design possibilities are investigated. This method is then applied to a transverse flux machine (TFM) with the goal to explore new design venues when switching from a conventional manufacturing process over to an additive manufacturing approach. The system TFM is analyzed and two C&C²-Models are created for two different development generations. By comparing the two models, it is shown, that optimizations from a mechanical perspective are possible without impacting the electromagnetic design negatively. Eventually, this work concludes that the C&C²-A is indeed capable and valuable as a modelling language for multi domain systems and further application and method development is encouraged.