DataBatt
PEM Develops Digitization Standards for Battery Production
In the project "DataBatt", the chair "Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components" (PEM) of RWTH Aachen University, together with other research institutions, is exploring the integration of horizontal data structures in battery production. Digitization continuously generates a large amount of data, which enables an increase in productivity and output of cell production through pattern recognition methods. By integrating so-called horizontal data structures, information can be made usable across processes.
Lack of standards for digital production processes
Due to a lack of standards, however, plant manufacturers and operators have so far been faced with challenges in the acquisition of data via sensor technology, in plant communication via defined interfaces, and in data processing and storage. By providing real-time capable databases with the corresponding use of inline sensor technology, it is possible to optimize not only individual processes but also the entire production control and increase product quality through "predictive quality". However, this requires the continuous integration and application of data along the entire process chain.
Transfer of concepts from information technology to production technology
The players in the "DataBatt" project therefore want to develop standards for integrated interfaces and horizontal data structures. The aim is to transfer concepts from information technology to production technology, to extend them and to make them applicable. The project partners are to develop methods for data integration and standardized data processing procedures that will enable data aggregation and use along the entire value chain of battery cell production. The project is part of the federally funded competence cluster "Intelligent Battery Cell Production" (InZePro).
The project
- "DataBatt": Integration of horizontal data structures in battery production
Research objectives
- Analysis and mapping of production data and production information of battery cell production processes
- Semantic linkages for the storage and evaluation of data and information
- Development of methods for data integration and of standardized data processing procedures for data aggregation as well as data use along the entire value chain of battery cell production
Research and project partners
PEM of RWTH Aachen University
(project coordinator)
IMA & IfU Cybernetics Lab – Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering & Associated Institute for Management Cybernetics e.V. (RWTH Aachen University)
wbk Institute of Production Science (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT)
Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Duration
- 11/01/2020 through 10/31/2023
Project sponsor
Funding code
- 03XP0323A
Grantor