Loccioni at PCIM 2025: at the heart of power electronics 

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Loccioni designs and manufactures high tech testing and quality control systems, both for laboratory and for the production line. The measure competence is applied in different sectors, from home appliances to automotive, from energy to aerospace and healthcare. The mission is to improve the well-being of people and the planet, improving the quality, safety and sustainability of products used every day. 

Since the ‘70s Loccioni has been working for the automotive sector, facing continuous technological shifts: from petrol or diesel injectors in the thermal propulsion engines, to the testing of electronic control units, power electronics, inverters, and power modules. 

Working with the best in class, Loccioni has developed more and more competences and experience, becoming a world expert in the testing of the e-mobility components; electric motors and axels, batteries and cells, inverters, and power modules. 

Flexibility, the continuous inclusion of young people, networking with universities and the  challenges of the main players, have been the keys to reach the heart of e-mobility: the power  module, based on SiC and GaN semiconductors.  

The expertise developed also comes from the realization of projects in the energy world:  design and implementation of energy micro-grids, integration and management of storage  systems (also second life), management and measurement of energy flows. 

Today, Loccioni supports the semiconductor production processes with both end-of-line  testing of 100% of production (modular and customized solutions for the assembly and testing  of power modules), with test and characterization systems for laboratory research and  development, and with test services (measurement campaigns) for prototyping. Dynamic  tests, static tests and insulation tests are performed to guarantee quality and reliability in real  working conditions 

Specifically designed for the power module industry, an upgraded Elektra test bench has  been developed to perform a system level test. The measurement is carried on while  simulating the real conditions of the power module inside the inverter in a riding car. A digital  twin of the vehicle interfaces with the real power module and the system can measure  current, tension, temperature even in extreme conditions. It is as if four different test benches  were integrated in one only system. 

To do this Loccioni has developed the Electronic Motor Emulator, that, through a perfect simulation of the car motor, applies on the power module a real load, before it gets integrated in the inverter. This and other innovations will be displayed at PCIM, where Loccioni electronic team will show to the power electronic community its test systems both for laboratory and for the production line, end of line testing and automatic handling systems, all integrated in one smart ecosystem.

We transform data into value. For the well-being of people and the planet. 

Loccioni is a family company, founded in 1968 by Enrico and Graziella, whose cultural roots  lie in the Benedictine and farmers tradition of Le Marche region. From this millenary culture,  a business model of Knowledge based company is born, that develops work and  entrepreneurship* in the territory and in the world. The key elements are managerial skills,  innovation, and internationalization. 

Loccioni designs and produces high tech testing and quality control systems, both for laboratory and for the production line. The appliances in our homes, the cars we drive, the  planes or trains that transport us, the energy we use, the air we breathe, the medicines and  food for our health, are tested with Loccioni systems specifically created for each product or  process. The mission is to improve the well-being of people and the planet, through  improving the quality, safety and sustainability of the products used every day and the  processes that impact the environment. 

As Galileo Galilei teaches, to improve you need to measure and this is the expertise that makes  Loccioni a strategic partner of the largest international industrial brands in the sectors of  mobility, energy, the environment and personal well-being: among the main ones Airbus,  Bosch, Cleveland Clinic, Daimler, Enel, E.On, Ferrari, General Electric, GE Avio, Leonardo, Mayo  Clinic, Northvolt, RFI, Samsung Medical Center, Toyota. To nurture these relationship,  international teams are created with young Loccioni collaborators in Germany, United  States, China, Japan, India, Korea, Mexico, Sweden, Spain, and France. 

The diversification of sectors increases competence, favors a multidisciplinary approach and  the integration of people, and keeps the company always young, capable of taking on  challenges with a high intensity of integration and innovation, such as the decarbonization. 

This is why the Loccioni campus is a real laboratory of the ecological transition, with its bright  zero-impact laboratories, immersed in the greenery of Le Marche countryside, powered by  the sun and the water of the Esino river and connected in a de-methanized micro-grid, which  intelligently manages energy flows. In 2024, the company produced more renewable energy  than it consumed, absorbing more CO2 than it emitted, and generating a profit. But the surprise for the over 8000 visitors per year comes from the smiles and big eyes of the  people: students, young collaborators, together with senior experts and professors,  customers, and suppliers, who work with joy, passion, and creativity to always find new  solutions to “leave a little better than we found” (cit. Enrico Loccioni).

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