Battery manufacturers face multiple challenges, including constrained raw material supply chains, limited production capacity, and high investment and ramp-up costs. At the same time, shortages of skilled labor, safety risks, and high scrap rates increase operational pressure. Strict quality and precision requirements, growing demands for end-to-end traceability, and compliance with governmental and environmental regulations further add to the complexity of battery production.
Securing quality and accuracy to ensure safety, performance, and battery life.
Optimizing workflows and reducing waste.
Using resources efficiently and reducing degradation.
Enabling reliable 24/7 high-speed production with 100% in-line inspection.
Ensuring complete traceability from raw material to finished product.
Machine vision secures electrode quality by measuring coating thickness, checking surface uniformity, monitoring adhesion, and inspecting cut-edge geometry. Inline inspection detects defects early, reduces waste, and helps maintain stable production.
Applications: surface inspection and defect classification, coating width measurement, cut-edge geometry inspection, electrode tab distance measurement.
In this step, electrodes and separators are combined into pouch, prismatic, or cylindrical cells. Machine vision ensures precise alignment, damage-free handling, and accurate stacking. For cylindrical cells, it supervises jelly roll winding and layer uniformity, contributing to higher reliability and improved performance.
Applications: inspection of electrode surfaces and tabs, position detection and stacking alignment, X-ray/CT-based electrode layer measurement, data matrix code reading.
Before shipping, cells undergo charging, discharging, and rigorous testing. Machine vision detects defects, deformations, or contamination, verifies codes for traceability, and measures cell dimensions. This guarantees product safety, consistent quality, and compliance with industry standards.
Applications: surface inspection of prismatic cells, defect detection on pouch cells, data code reading, measurement of outer diameter and cell dimensions.
