The power electronics capital, three days a year
PCIM Europe is the event where the power electronics industry takes stock of what’s shipping, what’s next, and what standards are being drafted behind closed doors. For magnetics specialists it’s the natural counterpart to CWIEME — where CWIEME concentrates on motor manufacturing, PCIM concentrates on the silicon, passive components and inductors that surround those motors.
Our booth in Hall 6 (stand 105) ran alongside Quadrant’s rare-earth and bonded-magnet display and Sintex’s soft-magnetic composite parts, giving visitors a full view of the magnetic component landscape — from raw material to characterized assembly.
Focus areas this year
Three application domains drove the conversations on our side of the booth:
- High-frequency inductor and transformer cores — where soft-magnetic composites and nanocrystalline cores demand precise B(H) curves measured at operating frequencies. HyMAC with AC measurement options featured heavily.
- Sensor magnets for automotive applications — position sensors, rotor magnets, and encoder wheels where small changes in magnetization vector angle create measurable performance issues. MSAT’s vector measurement capability was the first stop for several automotive Tier-1 teams.
- Battery management and solar inverter magnetics — DC-link chokes and PFC inductors where losses compound across millions of units, and where incoming-goods verification is shifting from statistical sampling to 100% inline testing.
Notable conversations
Two themes came through clearly in visitor discussions. First, the ongoing transition to silicon-carbide and gallium-nitride power stages is forcing a rethink of the surrounding magnetics — smaller, hotter, higher-frequency — and existing characterization workflows are showing their limits. Second, there is real appetite for integrated test benches that combine multiple measurement modalities in one system, rather than separate instruments for different material classes.
Both of those map to the roadmap we’ve been working on quietly for the past 18 months, and we appreciated the chance to validate the direction with engineers who will actually use the results.
What’s next
The Metis team returns to Nuremberg for PCIM 2026 (May 5–7). We’ll also be at CWIEME Berlin 2026 (May 19–21) and a handful of smaller regional events through the year. If you’d like a dedicated technical meeting rather than a show-floor conversation, reach out directly — we typically block several appointment slots per day at every event.