Skip to content
Discuss a project
Industrial robot arms in an automation cell

Multidisciplinary product engineering

Engineering complex products from motor control to medical robotics.

Outer Reef Technologies helps product teams solve difficult electromechanical challenges across electronics, firmware, software, mechanical design, robotics and regulated development.

Discuss your project Explore capabilities
  • Electronics
  • Embedded firmware
  • Mechanical systems
  • Verification
Custom motor-controller electronics assembly

Flagship specialization

Custom BLDC motor control, built around your system.

Outer Reef develops custom motor-control hardware and embedded firmware for sensored and sensorless BLDC applications. The work begins with the motor, load, power source, operating environment and system interfaces—not a generic controller specification.

Control strategy
Commutation, feedback, startup behavior and operating modes matched to the application.
Power electronics
Power stage, gate drive, current sensing, protection and thermal constraints considered together.
Embedded integration
Firmware, communications and system interfaces designed around the product architecture.
Verification
Bench characterization and fault testing planned against measurable system requirements.
Explore BLDC motor-control engineering

Engineering capabilities

The interfaces are where difficult products succeed or fail.

Outer Reef works across disciplines so electrical, firmware, mechanical and system decisions support the same product requirements.

Navigation and sensing

Navigation and sensing

Integrate optical, inertial and mechanical sensing into systems where accuracy and interfaces matter.

Explore navigation systems

Development approach

Move from technical uncertainty to defensible engineering decisions.

The exact work changes by product. The decision sequence should remain clear: define the system, expose tradeoffs, integrate the disciplines and verify what matters.

  1. 01

    Define the system

    Clarify users, operating conditions, interfaces, risks and measurable requirements before committing to an architecture.

  2. 02

    Architect the tradeoffs

    Evaluate performance, power, thermal, mechanical, regulatory and production constraints as connected decisions.

  3. 03

    Build and integrate

    Develop hardware, firmware, software and mechanics with planned interface checks instead of late-stage surprises.

  4. 04

    Verify and transfer

    Test against requirements, document the evidence and prepare the design for the next development or production stage.

Published project history

Experience across demanding product environments.

The organizations below are represented in Outer Reef’s existing published partner and project material.

Magic Leap
Microsoft
Neocis
OrthoSensor
STERIS
Stryker
“Outer Reef Technologies completed our requested deliverables and satisfied our requirements with exceptional ingenuity. They were willing and able to pivot with us halfway through the project, successfully adapting their solution based on our updated requirements.”
Ashley GalanesDirector of Product Development, OrthoSensor

Engineering insights

Practical thinking for complex product development.

View all insights
Reliable Motor Controller Design

February 2024

Reliable Motor Controller Design

Design motor-controller reliability from the mission profile, electrical and thermal stress, fault behavior, manufacturing controls and verification.

Start with the engineering problem

Tell us what the product needs to do—and what is making it difficult.

Share the application, development stage, constraints and timing. We’ll use that context to assess the technical fit and identify the right next conversation.

Prefer to schedule?
Choose a time