Current State of Digitalization in Battery Cell Manufacturing

This chapter describes two methods to determine the current state of digitalization in battery cell manufacturing. The objective is to identify a possible discrepancy between research and industrial companies. For this purpose, job advertisements of various battery cell manufacturers are searched for relevant keywords in the context of digitalization. This keyword search will also be applied to scientific literature databases to reflect the state of research. Subsequently, the data are systematically evaluated and analyzed. The result shows a clear offset between industry and research. While industrial companies often address conventional problems like process control and process planning, research is largely focused on the topics of Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence.