Powertrain Development

Competence in Development. Efficient and Creative.

Our highly qualified staff with comprehensive expertise and many years of experience in powertrain conception design and simulation will develop the best solution for your future products:

  • Combustion engines
  • Mild hybrid powertrains (including 48V Systems)
  • Hybrid powertrains
  • Plug-in hybrid powertrains
  • Range extender powertrain solutions
Powertrain Development

Conception

The fast and reliable development of new powertrain technologies requires to evaluate the potentials, cost-benefit relation, and potential risks already within the project evaluation phase. Using a concept or feasibility study, we verify that your new product is realisable. We rely on our technical expertise as well as on the results of our market analysis and benchmarking.

Based on our almost 30 years of experience, our database, design concepts and simulation, we can demonstrate the future features of your products early and accurately. The results of these studies will provide the necessary know-how to develop a comprehensive specification for viable new products.

We see conceptual tasks as multidimensional, multifaceted challenges. Our engineers, through their comprehensive expertise, are enabled to consider and evaluate all relevant aspects of product design from the very beginning.

Our teams methodically work out concept variants, by which we define the most effective solutions, in close cooperation with our customers. Detailed concept analysis and review will allow a future-oriented perspective for your new product and the best conditions for fast market introduction.

Design

Powertrain design is a core competence of Meta GmbH, which brings together all the relevant design variables and communicates closely with the product-related areas. We design complex assemblies with the latest CAD systems using the top-down method, or according to your specifications. By tolerance analysis and derivation of process-oriented manufacturing tolerances we work out detailed manufacturing drawings. The direct link to our CNC machines allows the prototyping of complex 3D geometries directly in-house.

To meet your requirements, we work with most popular CAD platforms, and have a variety of data exchange formats. We will focus on your specific design guidelines and specifications.

CAE / Simulation

Meta develops up-to-date and future-oriented powertrains by intensive support of virtual development tools. This combines all relevant disciplines, like thermodynamics, mechanics, and acoustics.

Conception, design or simulation – just contact us regarding the tasks you are facing.

We offer the following services to our customers:

  • Process simulation (1D, 3D)
  • Structural and dynamic analysis
  • Fatigue analysis
  • CFD analysis
  • Vehicle simulation
  • Operation strategies (NEV / hybrid)

Project Examples

Meta’s almost 30 years of experience are built on many successful development projects. For this we dealt with the project challenges regarding the development of new combustion engines until start of production from

  • 1 to 6 cylinders
  • gasoline and diesel engines
  • turbo-charged or naturally aspirated engines
  • engines with direct or port fuel injection.

 Another focus of our development work is on high efficient gasoline engines and technologies as:

  • Engines with Atkinson cycle in combination with cooled EGR (up to 40 % efficiency)
  • Engines with Miller cycle, high compression ratio (HCR) and, advanced ignition (42,5 % efficiency)
  • Gasoline pre-chamber combustion technologies (target efficiency level above 45 %)
  • Integration of new engine technologies like variable valve lift (VVL), variable compression ratio (VCR) technology and advanced charging devices