Knowing that material selection plays a critical role in achieving the ultimate performance, battery cell manufacturing is also a key feature to maintain and even improve the performance during upscaled manufacturing. Hence, battery manufacturing technology is evolving in parallel to the market demand.
The energy consumption involved in industrial-scale manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries is a critical area of research. The substantial energy inputs, encompassing both power demand and energy consumption, are pivotal factors in establishing mass production facilities for battery manufacturing.
Battery manufacturing generates data of multiple types and dimensions from front-end electrode manufacturing to mid-section cell assembly, and finally to back-end cell finishing. Most of these data is utilized for performance prediction, process optimization, and defect detection [33, , , ].
The manufacturing data of lithium-ion batteries comprises the process parameters for each manufacturing step, the detection data collected at various stages of production, and the performance parameters of the battery [25, 26].
There are various players involved in the battery manufacturing processes, from researchers to product responsibility and quality control. Timely, close collaboration and interaction among these parties is of vital relevance.
Nature Energy 8, 1180–1181 (2023) Cite this article Lithium-ion battery manufacturing is energy-intensive, raising concerns about energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions amid surging global demand.