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Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by ars on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:43AM (#12077179)
This article has almost nothing about the actual motor in the title except this:

"every component from previous motors was examined and optimized to lighten this motor and improve efficiency. The end-shield for the motor, for example, was analyzed using a software package that divided the component into over 100,000 elements, each of which was individually further stress-analyzed and subject to iterative improvement loops. Eventually, the custom software spat out a filigree structure that weighs 4.9kg instead of the 10.5kg from the previous design."

The rest of the article is basically fluff with no info.

Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by dbyte on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:34AM (#12077372)
Even this paragraph is just a general description of what could potentially be a FEM analysis and some optimisation algorithm associated with that. Interesting result on the other hand.
Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by ams6110 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @08:45AM (#12078535)
I agree, read like a press release from Siemens.