IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - December 2021 - 16
Power Electronics
Hardware Design for
Manufacturability
Employing design principles
to ensure manufacturability
of complex designs at highvoltage
and high-current
extremes
by Grant Pitel and Adam Pitel
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2021.3123832
Date of current version: 16 December 2021
16 IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE z December 2021
ith a small, diverse team of engineers,
Magna-Power Electronics can offer over
160,000 different configurations of programmable
power supplies and electronic
loads, spanning current levels up to 10,000
Adc, voltage levels up to 10,000 Vdc, and power levels up
to 3,000 kW. This feat is made possible through tightly
integrated engineering and manufacturing teams, minimizing
labor and maximizing automation, and imposing
consistency as a core principle across all designs. This
article shares several strategies within the power electronics
design process that the company has iterated on
during its 40-year history, including printed circuit board
(PCB) design and vendor selection, prototype and design
controls, and electro-mechanical integration. While
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