CASE STUDIES

Web Merge & Stack for Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing

Situation

An electric vehicle battery startup required development of an automated, web-based anode/cathode/separator merge and stack system.

Problem

To accurately merge four different delicate patterned layers and punch them into a stack at rate of 40 ms per stack.

Solution

A new merging process was created by Owens Design along with a proof-of-process (PoP) system to validate and optimize the process.

Owens Design then designed and built a fully automated system to support the customer’s pilot production line, implementing the learning from the PoP, which included:

  • Web handling
  • Web merging
  • Die punching
  • Machine
  • Software
merge-stacker
punch
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