Kinetic Power Machines

Kinetic Power Machines (KPM) create a range of problem-solving solutions across several project categories such as clean energy and electric vehicle technology, eGames, medical devices, conveyor systems and off-grid power.

Some of its technologies will be available to partnering organisations that need to solve technical challenges in their existing product portfolio, or those that want to enter new markets. It is a business on the cusp of new technologies, driving incremental innovation and using advanced manufacturing to solve some of industry’s most pertinent challenges.

The business engaged with PP Plus through an initial discovery session and it wasn’t long before they were benefiting from direct access to the partner network.

“PP Plus has unlocked the experience, engineering imagination, and resources we needed to proceed to demonstration of our product to key partners and academia experts in the field of EV motors.”

Craig Morton
Operations Director
BEng (Hons) CEng MIET FIHE MIHE
Kinetic Power Machines Limited (KPM)

KPM introduced its technology to engineers at PP Control & Automation (PP C&A), founders of the PP Plus network, and Silverstone Technology Cluster (STC). Its innovative motor enhancement technology was encountering several challenges getting in front of the right people at a relatively early stage of its development.

STC’s collaborative approach with Amazon Web Services through its Innovation programme, plus its Special Interest Groups (SIG), set up specifically to focus on digital manufacturing and future mobility was an ideal initial fit.

This new technology can be applied to any motor to double its load-carrying capacity or speed. For example, if an EV truck can carry 15 tonnes, then this technology will enable it to carry up to 30 tonnes.

Pim van Baarsen, CEO of the STC, impressed with the technology put KPM in front of Amazon Web Services, as well as Performance Projects and Saietta. When KPM needed a clear path to key industry players in the market of clean and future mobility and electrification, these were exactly the types of organisations they had in mind.

During the discovery session, KPM also communicated that they were especially interested in working with researchers to ultimately provide the required scrutiny for its motor enhancement technology prior to revealing the product to market.

And there just so happened to be the perfect network partner for that too. KPM were connected with Simon Shepherd at Coventry University and specialists from its Centre for Advanced Low Carbon Propulsion Systems (C-ALPS) where Simon is Director.

The £50m C-ALPS facility is a research centre within the Centre for E-Mobilty and Clean Growth at Coventry University. C-ALPS brings together academic expertise and state-of-the-art facilities in battery and supercapacitor cells, hydrogen fuel cells, e-motors and drives.

In this environment, researchers and industry work collaboratively on the science and engineering behind the next generation of electrified propulsion systems for the automotive, aerospace, marine and rail industries.

“Our relationship with the PP Plus has blossomed based on tangible success and individuals from the network are now an embedded part of our team. KPM highly recommends this hassle-free service to any start-up company that is planning to develop innovative products from inception of the idea to prototype and beyond.”

Craig Morton
Operations Director
KPM

PP C&A has agreed to provide KPM with space on the shopfloor of its award-winning facility to host its technology, with the ability to demonstrate it to interested parties.

After this, KPM is looking to dig even deeper into the PP Plus ecosystem and start conversations with growth and marketing experts to see how it can exploit new market opportunities.

Furthermore, metal component stamping experts and PP Plus network partner, Brandauer has been an especially important connection, with their vast expertise in electrical steel lamination stamping and experience supplying the electrification, electric vehicle, and clean mobility markets with some of the industry’s most ambitious projects and collaborations.

KPM has quickly become an excellent example of how PP Plus is designed to operate and support organisations on their journey. It is the ecosystem at play that connects quickly and in productive ways, whatever an organisation’s needs, that make it unlike any other network partnership in the world.

Tony Hague
CEO
PP Control & Automation