• More complex techniques and calculations
• Greater reliance on scientific knowledge needed
• New impulses needed for the development of this knowledge
• A new, less traditional approach to electrical product development
• Challenging
• Possibility of profiling by companies and institutions
• Making existing electrical products and systems more compact (smaller and lighter)[/tab][tab]
• Achieve higher returns
• Realizing completely new products
• Realizing completely new applications of em-energy
• Realizing new power electronic control concepts s
• Faster design and development ('first time right')
• Optimize design process

Technology (supply): technological developments and possibilities

• Availability of new generation power semiconductors with integrated power and control semiconductors
• Availability of new materials
• Availability of calculation and simulation methods
• Availability of ICT tools for sensor and control technologies