Heron Power Tech Stack
Power electronics hardware for grid modernization and electrification
Heron Power designs and manufactures power electronics systems for grid infrastructure, founded in 2024 and already at 51–200 employees with 36 engineering hires in the last month. The tech stack reveals a hardware-first operation: CATIA, Ansys, MATLAB, Simulink, and LTspice for simulation and design, paired with industrial control systems (Beckhoff TwinCAT, Allen-Bradley, Siemens TIA Portal) and test automation tooling (TestStand, LabVIEW). The project list and pain points center on the same cluster—automated test infrastructure, medium-voltage converter reliability, and manufacturing scale—indicating the core bottleneck is validation and production repeatability, not design.
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What Heron Power Is Building
◆Challenges
- Debottlenecking electricity generation and consumption
- Debottleneck electricity generation
- Scaling high volume manufacturing
- Automated test infrastructure for high-volume manufacturing
- Accelerating electrification of everything
- Reliability at medium voltage
- Lack of test infrastructure
- Connecting renewables to grid
- Ensuring reliability of grid-tied converters
- Building resilient supply base
▲Active Projects
- Medium-voltage power electronics systems
- Automated hardware test infrastructure
- Process development for potting, molding, encapsulation, coating, and assembly
- Test infrastructure for thermal systems validation
- Supplier qualification program
- Automated bi-directional converter testers
- Erp implementation
- Develop automated test equipment and data workflows
- Pcba functional fixture design
- Rfx process leadership and negotiation