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The OPC Foundation, a global organization dedicated to collaboration for creating data transfer standards for multi-vendor, multi-platform, secure, and reliable interoperability in industrial automation, announced the formation of a Battery Production joint working group. This new working group, whose inaugural meeting will take place in December, will develop OPC UA Information Models for selected machines in the production chain of a battery—from cell production to the ready-to-use battery.
The aim is to include all machines involved in battery production. This will enable a plant operator to access this preliminary work during line planning and set up standardized battery production without having to redevelop the entire information models from scratch.
The first step will focus on the individual battery cell production systems. Battery cell production is divided into the following processing steps:
Electrode preparation
Cell assembly
Cell finishing
The information model will use OPC UA constructs to expose general and process-specific information to OPC UA applications and to exchange general and production-specific information between inline machines or from machines to higher level systems.
This should include information in the following context:
Collection of product-specific data (traceability, quality management)
Production monitoring and control
Information for key performance indicators calculations
Counters for maintenance purposes
Energy monitoring
Asset identification
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