New Energy
As a much-anticipated trillion-yuan blue-ocean market, new energy vehicles are in a stage of rapid growth. Their key component, the new energy battery, has seen its market size soar and competition intensify, driven by policies such as the "dual carbon" goals and the "specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative" program. Battery manufacturers have kept innovating and raising their level of automation; with new products and technologies emerging and OEM factory-audit requirements rising, "green + intelligent" manufacturing has become the major trend of transformation and upgrading. The transformation and upgrading of new energy battery enterprises is imperative.
Characteristics of the New Energy Battery Industry
Management Challenges
New energy batteries come in many types and involve complex production processes. Under the market trend of customization and high-mix low-volume production, enterprises need to build a flexible and efficient production model, applying differentiated production methods to different customers and orders to achieve optimal cost control.
- Complex process routes are hard to control and involve many requirements
- Production equipment needs real-time automatic data acquisition, monitoring and scheduled maintenance
- Production is tightly controlled: process and quality data must be strictly managed, with high error-proofing requirements
- Production equipment must be set up in real time
- ERP requires real-time interaction with production data
- Strict traceability requirements, especially for power batteries
- Some battery manufacturers are subject to external factory audits
- Power batteries must be connected to the national traceability platform, covering battery manufacturing, recycling, dismantling and cascade utilization
Solution
For the new energy battery industry, MORE combines its products and industry experience to deliver a digital solution that helps enterprises achieve intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation. Addressing the production requirements of different battery manufacturing stages, and based on safety, traceability, intelligent interconnection and industry access standards, the solution builds an intelligent manufacturing system integrating full-process traceability, production control, system integration and data interconnection. It covers material management, work order management, planning management, process management, production management, quality management, equipment management, personnel management, process monitoring and factory data analysis, achieving traceability and control from raw materials to finished-goods warehousing and even after-sales service. It helps enterprises build a digital battery factory and establish a manufacturing operations management platform covering the entire value chain.
The solution has been deployed at many new energy battery enterprises, including well-known names such as Nanfu Battery, Sunwoda, Scud, Narada Power, Jiabeisi, Guangzhou Mingmei, Baicheng Battery and Hunan Keba.
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Core Requirements Addressed
- Establish a full-process, all-element bidirectional traceability system covering batch, process, quality, equipment and personnel across the entire manufacturing process
- Based on shipment labels, upload the national standard code for compliance verification and connect to the national traceability platform, meeting the national mandatory recall system and the battery pack recycling management system
- Strictly control the electrode, cell assembly, cell formation, module and battery pack stages, recording production information and preventing errors and omissions
- Build a planning system that links production with sales and enables agile delivery
- Build process management for flexible multi-mode production, covering process route control, process document upload/download and poka-yoke
- Connect the whole process from cell grading and grouping to assembly, packaging and PACK, closely integrating production recipes with the system to form closed-loop overall process control
- Automatically collect quality data and perform SPC analysis with system alerts, covering closed-loop quality control across IQC, PQC, FQC and OQC
- Establish a unified barcode standard for warehouse materials, safeguarding traceability information
- Integrate with automated inspection equipment and information systems such as ERP and SRM to achieve real-time collection, analysis, archiving and report generation of production data
- Use big data analytics to track the entire production process and effectively evaluate product quality, equipment status and material consumption
- Make production progress, quality, personnel, materials and test data transparent, with multi-dimensional visualized transparent-factory management and information visibility across regions and levels
Battery Cell Traceability Chain
Closed-Loop Control of the Full Battery Production Process
Application Benefits
- Timely and comprehensive visibility of production progress, greatly improving production efficiency
- Standardize the production process system and establish process and inspection standards
- Full-process quality traceability and control with closed-loop response to anomaly alerts
- Equipment interconnection platform enables real-time remote monitoring and higher equipment utilization
- Multi-dimensional visibility integrating performance and decision supervision
