About MPH Technical Consultancy

Martin Paul Hill CEng MInstMC founded MPH Technical Consultancy in 2018 to provide client services due to the increasing engineering skills gap and shortages.

The range of services we offer spans electronic, electrical, software, and mechanical design disciplines. Our foundational skills are in analogue and digital electronic circuit design, PCB layout and C programming of Microcontrollers.

MPH Technical Consultancy assists and collaborates with clients, provides technical support, and refines the design and development of products.

The rationale is to align with clients who want to outsource or require a turnkey solution (effectively design through to manufacture). This plays to the utilisation of distributed resources and lean working.

Specialist skills and experience

Our specialist skills cover Electric Motor Technology and their Control Systems in particular. We have built these over 30 plus years with electronics industry experience and working with and for blue-chip companies using or designing motor control systems. It means we can help you specify a motor for a given application, recommend the control method and design/implement the system, be it bespoke or provided by readily available sub-system components.

With the trend toward motor plus battery-powered products, the focus is on efficiency and extended time between charging. Expert modes of operation and system refinements come into play, and this is where our knowledge across different applications can add value and make a difference to the overall design competitiveness. In our experience, customers transitioning from one motor type to another, or those wanting to develop their control hardware and firmware, are known to benefit from this service.

Other services

We have also developed sensing, wireless (including Android App), and safety sub-systems to enhance the motor control, and meet other project requirements.

Supplementary services include training and professional speaking, which is aimed at self sufficiency provision and/or knowledge transfer and education.

Our methods

The fact that we use advanced manufacturing processes, industry standard design and system simulation software enables us to rapidly turnaround initial concept/prototype designs. This is complemented with the use of goal-centric project management methods.

We work alongside our clients with respect to applicable standards and we agree what the scope of our deliverables are in this respect.

EMC pre-compliance testing/reports can be carried out in our lab and we recommend this is done at various stages of a project. In particular we performed this for a dual motor controller that we designed, which proved affirmative prior to testing done at an official facility, where it also passed.

Our experience has aligned with mobility, medical and industrial automation applications using one or dual motors respectively. We relish integrating brushless motors with controllers and power sources to form intelligent systems, especially as this is a prevalent trend/market need.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for an initial, no-obligation discussion about your requirements. click: Contact MPH Technical Consultancy

Example and Recent Projects

Client Confidentiality is of paramount importance but we are able to provide basic project information as follows:

Subminiature high speed PMSM development with bespoke control software and hardware design
Table precision position control using Nanotech Stepper Drives, NanoJ programming and support software.
Supplementary development and integration of motor control safety monitoring subsystems plus CAN networking.
Remote, trouble shooting and design assessment for an electric drive, traction control issue.
Line voltage 3 phase PMSM Fan, refined control software and drive PCB design.
Bespoke Bluetooth wireless rotation sensor leveraging BLE module, 3rd party stack with application layer development.
FOR OUR OWN STARTUP EXAMPLE PROJECT click: Turner