Power electronics

More than 200 companies with some 42,000 jobs, including 12,500 directly connected with power electronics value creation – a high concentration of knowledge, expertise and value creation.The major success factors are marketable products and services, future-oriented research, flexibility, speed, attractive cost structures, and internationality.

Nuremberg’s power electronics industry develops solutions and services for the automotive industry, electrical engineering, information and telecommunications, drive systems, automation, mechanical engineering, and medical engineering.

Attractive training and research environment

The Nuremberg region with its power electronics cluster is a major research location:

• Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Center for Power Electronics (4 chairs),
• Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Power Electronics Department and Competence Center ELSYS,
• Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB), Erlangen
• Fraunhofer Center for Automotive Power Electronics and Mechatronics (ZKLM) based in etz, Nuremberg, as part of IISB.

European Center for Power Electronics - ECPE

The industry network ECPE is coordinator and central network and project partner for the regional, national and European power electronics industry and science. Services: Pre-competition research, technology transfer, cooperations and projects, networking, qualification, training promotion, lobbying, public relations.

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