Battery Smart Manufacturing

The best battery technology today is lithium-ion due to its high energy density, long cycle life, and efficiency. To stay ahead in this fast-growing industry, manufacturers must innovate continuously, embracing virtually developed, integrated, and intelligent manufacturing processes. Leveraging operational data insights can enhance agility and ensure high-quality production at scale, positioning companies as market leaders. Transform your manufacturing approach with Siemens to lead in the lithium-ion battery market.

Before the start of production, the on-time delivery and commissioning of high-quality battery cell manufacturing equipment is crucial to achieving targeted yield and output performance. Manufacturing operations management through a proven digital asset allows battery manufacturers to scale up rapidly and confidently, reducing time to market while keeping quality costs under control and complying with regulations and sustainability targets.

Manufacturing Operations Management allows battery manufacturers to increase and scale battery production, by means of:

• Enabling end-to-end traceability, closed-loop quality, and effective order management

• Increasing efficiency in the ramp-up phase by improving the reliability of quality assurance and

validation testing

• Complying with regulations and customer requirements

Quality management system (QMS) software offers the essential procedures, processes, structures, and resources that battery manufacturers need to meet customer requirements and comply with industry standards and guidelines. By leveraging digital continuity, QMS software ensures the production of high-quality batteries and significantly reduces scrap.

Design with a quality mindset

A closed-loop quality approach will enable you to define and optimize how the battery will be produced and to identify risk in the project’s early stages.

Move from reactive to predictive quality

Make real-time adjustments to your manufacturing environment to prevent quality issues before they happen and systemize continuous improvement.

Synchronize QMS with PLM software

Streamline and embed quality across domains to improve collaboration and manage processes across the entire product lifecycle.

Optimize change management to enhance quality

Common change management distributes the changes to all stakeholders in the loop so that the product development process continuously improves, reducing new product time-to-market and the total cost of quality for existing products.

Support the production of high-quality batteries

Quality and compliance management best practices help battery manufacturers face challenges with a complete quality approach that supports faster time-to-market while complying with norms and regulations.

Achieve closed-loop quality through smart manufacturing to rapidly scale sophisticated battery production.

Due to the high cost of raw materials in battery manufacturing, the scrap rate can make the difference between profitability and loss. By leveraging edge devices, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial IoT (internet of things), and machine learning (ML), you can connect the shop floor to your digital twin of battery production to achieve full visibility and control of operations. You can collect and analyze operational data, onsite and in the cloud, to receive actionable insights and trigger self-correcting behavior on your lines. Predictive quality and performance enable you to meet throughput and line speed targets, eliminate waste, and ensure efficient and profitable operations.

Green batteries are essential. For this, a holistic and proactive approach to carbon footprint management and optimization is required. This approach includes early assessments of CO2 consumption, energy monitoring during operations, and end-to-end carbon emission data gathered internally and externally. Additionally, by enabling digital operations, you will have access to back-to-birth battery genealogy which is the foundation to establish a digital battery passport and ensure that all regulatory requirements have been met.