Digitalized, Sustainable Battery Cell Production

First battery cell winding system of its kind

04-Oct-2024 - The further development and evolution of existing storage systems is a key prerequisite for the energy transition. The Center for Digitalized Battery Cell Manufacturing (ZDB) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and acp systems AG have joined forces to ...

New approaches for the cost-efficient and high-speed production of fuel cells

18-Sep-2024 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT will show experts from the hydrogen industry how advanced laser technologies are helping to pave the way for the breakthrough of hydrogen technology at the international trade fair and conference Hy-fcell, which will take place in Stuttgart on ...

New Edge AI solutions for intelligent sensors to help predict and maintain industrial systems

Fraunhofer IPMS develops an intelligent demonstrator for the predictive maintenance of industrial plants

10-Jun-2024 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS presents a groundbreaking demonstrator for predictive maintenance of industrial equipment. The demonstrator uses advanced sensor technology combined with artificial intelligence (AI)-based data processing to detect potential machine damage ...

Nature Study Takes a Close Look at the Optimization of the Energy Consumption of Battery Cell Factories

Battery cell production plays a key role in the transformation of mobility and thus in achieving national climate protection goals

05-Oct-2023 - With the current state of product and production technology, the electricity demand of all battery factories planned worldwide in 2040 will be 130,000 GWh per year, equivalent to the current electricity consumption of Norway or Sweden - this is the conclusion of a study by the research team led ...

When the ­Machine Reports Its Status

26-Jul-2023 - Even if the central concern of digitally integrated production or Industry 4.0 is networking industrial systems – the individual machine remains a central focus point of optimization. The reasons: Networking requires interfaces that must first be implemented on the individual machine. Fraunhofer ...

Better recycling of plastic packaging: New process extracts fragrances

Environmentally compatible and climate-friendly recycling for high-quality "post-consumer" recyclates

25-Apr-2023 - What doesn't smell good is hard to recycle. This simple rule also applies to the growing volume of plastic waste worldwide. One way to recycle it in an environmentally compatible and climate-friendly manner as high-quality post-consumer recyclates is through improved sorting and reprocessing. ...

We add Biology to Industry 4.0

How biogenic materials and digital solutions enable resilient production processes and sustainable products

12-Apr-2023 - »BioFusion 4.0« transfers principles from nature into industrial manufacturing to achieve sustainable and circular value creation. At this year‘s Hannover Messe from April 17 to 21, 2023, Fraunhofer IPK demonstrates how biogenic materials and digital solutions can be used to design resilient ...

Trust is good, but AI control is better

Hybrid graph AI optimizes material use along the value chain and assessment tools check AI systems for potential weaknesses

11-Apr-2023 - What are the worst-case scenarios if certain materials are not available? What are suitable substitutes? Can we optimize the use of materials with as little waste as possible? And how do we achieve our sustainability goals? "This is where our material graph comes in. Our AI learns not only from ...

Fraunhofer ISE Demonstrates First Long-Term Methanol Synthesis from Blast Furnace Gas in a Miniplant

Process Optimization with the Digital Twin

19-Sep-2022 - Methanol plays an important role for industry as a commodity chemical and is presently considered one of the key energy carriers in the rising hydrogen economy. However, conventional methanol production from coal and natural gas generates large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. With the ...

Reference-factory.H2 – electrolyzer and fuel cell production of the future

Hybrid production system accelerates transfer to industry

03-May-2022 - Hydrogen is a key element in the energy transition. To ensure that hydrogen can become generally established as an energy source, it must be produced at market prices, in sufficient quantities and in a climate-neutral manner, and used with a high CO2 reduction rate. This requires affordable, ...