Smart Manufacturing of Battery Cells: The Concept of Traceability

The application of traceability at the factory level helps in creating a dynamic and intelligent production environment. Due to diverse influencing factors coming from raw materials, production processes and intermediate product properties, intelligent and real-time traceability is currently not a common practice in the battery manufacturing industry. This presentation aims to being traceability under the big umbrella of smart manufacturing for battery production. The benefits of having such a concept is the availability of real time data for the users as a basis for quality and process improvement and lastly, self-optimization and self-adaptation of battery manufacturing processes to new conditions.