PCB Stator Technology
A software-driven platform for optimizing electric motors around the application, not the catalog.
ECM combines patented PCB Stator technology with PrintStator software to help OEMs rapidly design, optimize, prototype, and scale application-specific electric motors.
What Is a PCB Stator Motor?
A PCB Stator motor replaces traditional wound copper stators with precision-engineered printed circuit board stators.
Combined with ECM’s axial flux architecture, this creates compact motors with smooth motion, high controllability, and flexible integration geometry.
Unlike conventional motors built around standardized designs, ECM motors can be optimized around the actual application using PrintStator software.
Why ECM’s Approach Is Different
Most electric motors are selected from a catalog of standardized designs. This often forces compromises around efficiency, weight, noise, controllability, and integration.
ECM takes a different approach.
Using PrintStator, motors can be optimized around:
- real operating conditions
- thermal requirements
- motion targets
- acoustic performance
- system geometry
- and integration constraints.
This allows the motor and system to be developed together rather than forcing the application around a fixed motor platform.
Designed Around Real Operating Conditions
Traditional motors are often optimized around operating points that do not reflect how the system actually operates.
ECM’s software-driven approach enables motors to be optimized around real operating conditions, including partial load operation and multiple duty points.
This helps improve overall system performance in applications such as HVAC, pumps, robotics, and precision motion systems.
The PrintStator Ecosystem
PrintStator is ECM’s software-driven motor design and optimization platform.
The software enables engineers to rapidly design and optimize motors around application-specific requirements while evaluating performance, controllability, thermal behavior, and integration geometry in real time.
PrintStator accelerates:
- design iteration
- simulation
- controller integration
- and prototype development.
ECM’s simulation accuracy is typically within 1–2% on critical performance parameters.
From Prototype To Production
ECM’s platform is designed to support the full motor development cycle from rapid prototyping through scalable production.
PCB stators leverage highly scalable PCB manufacturing infrastructure already deployed globally, allowing motors to be manufactured using mature and flexible supply chains rather than highly specialized winding processes.
Combined with PrintStator software, this enables rapid iteration, manufacturable design outputs, and faster transition from concept to production.
For some OEMs, the platform also creates opportunities for greater vertical integration, supply chain flexibility, and long-term manufacturing control.
Built For Application-Specific Development
ECM technology performs best when the motor and system can be optimized together around the application.
The platform is particularly well suited for applications where controllability, operating-point optimization, compact integration, motion quality, and rapid iteration matter.
Explore how ECM technology is being applied across:
- HVAC
- Pumps
- Robotics & Actuation
- Aerospace
- Precision Motion Systems
Engineering Reality Matters
PCB Stator technology is not the ideal solution for every application.
Applications heavily constrained around legacy radial flux geometries or direct motor replacement requirements may reduce the advantages of the axial flux architecture.
ECM performs best when OEMs are open to system-level optimization, co-design, and application-specific development rather than simply replacing an existing motor with a similar one.
This engineering-first approach allows ECM to focus on applications where the technology creates meaningful system-level advantages.
Sustainable by Design
ECMpowered motors are built to reduce environmental impact at every stage, using up to 80% less copper, minimizing material waste, and delivering efficiencies above 90% through software-optimized design.
Smaller, lighter, and more efficient. ECM’s PCB Stator technology helps your products go further with less.
750W
91% Efficiency
7.1” Motor Diameter 1.3” Motor Length
2.2kW
92% Efficiency
12.8” Motor Diameter 3.4” Motor Length
4.5kW
93% Efficiency
14.5” Motor Diameter 4.2” Motor LengthPCB Stator Technology: Advanced Solutions for Critical Applications
Acoustically and Electromagnetically Quiet
Ultra-Precise Motion - No cogging
Tough Against Extreme Environments
Lightweight, High Performance Motor Systems
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