One Engineering Team, Four Sectors: Inside EMB Power's Cross-Industry Controls Work

A controls engineering partner that works across sectors sees problems other teams miss

EMB Power designs, integrates and supports embedded control systems across four sectors: automotive, marine, commercial vehicle and off-highway. That breadth is not a side note — it is the reason our team can spot a wiring, network or calibration problem on a marine propulsion project that looks exactly like one we've already solved on a commercial vehicle build. For an engineering team choosing a controls partner, a supplier who only ever sees one sector can only ever draw on one sector's worth of failure modes.

Why four sectors, and why together

The underlying engineering problem is the same wherever it shows up: how do you take a mechanical system and give it a reliable electronic brain, on a timescale and budget that a real project can survive. We describe this as mechatronic controls — the electronic brains that drive mechanical systems — and that's deliberately sector-agnostic.

• Automotive: embedded controls and calibration work for OEM and specialist vehicle programmes, including EV and hybrid conversion projects.
• Marine: control systems for propulsion and onboard electrical architectures, where salt-air durability and network reliability carry different weight than they do on-road.
• Commercial vehicle: fleet-relevant diagnostics, body control and power distribution work, where uptime and serviceability are the metrics that matter to an operator.
• Off-highway: ruggedised control architectures for construction, agricultural and industrial machinery operating in harsher environmental and vibration conditions than most road vehicles ever see.

A CAN network topology decision, a low-voltage brownout fix, or a calibration workflow built for one of these sectors very often transfers directly to another — we don't have to relearn the fundamentals each time a new type of project arrives.

EV and hybrid conversion work is part of this picture

Alongside our sector-spanning controls work, we've partnered with specialist manufacturers such as Everrati and RetroElectric on ICE-to-EV conversion projects. Conversion work of this kind sits at the intersection of automotive and off-highway thinking: an existing mechanical platform, a new powertrain, and a control system that has to be designed in rather than retrofitted as an afterthought. It's exactly the kind of project where cross-sector controls experience shortens the path from concept to a working vehicle.

The toolchain behind the engineering

EMB Power is the exclusive UK and EU partner for New Eagle's Raptor and OpenECU toolchains, giving UK and EU engineering teams local access to a model-based development environment, production-ready controllers and displays, calibration and CAN integration tools, and telematics support — without needing a direct relationship with a US-based supplier. New Eagle's 2026 acquisition of OpenECU means OpenECU controllers and software are now available through us on the same exclusive-partner basis as Raptor, extending the same toolchain and local support model to a wider range of controller hardware.

We support projects from feasibility consultation and control systems design through to ISO 26262 safety assessment and production — from one-off prototypes to full production volumes.

What this means if you're choosing an engineering partner

If your project sits in automotive, marine, commercial vehicle or off-highway — or straddles more than one, as EV and hybrid conversions often do — the practical question to ask a controls supplier isn't just "have you built something like this before," it's "how many different kinds of mechanical system have you had to make reliable." A team that only ever sees one sector has a narrower set of solved problems to draw on than one that moves between four.

Our engineering team works directly with clients across all four sectors, backed by exclusive UK/EU access to the Raptor and OpenECU toolchains. If you're scoping a controls project and want to talk through feasibility, architecture or integration support, get in touch with our engineering team to discuss your requirements.