The ambitious target of the European Union to achieve a climate-neutral European economy by the year 2050 will make electrical energy storages indispensable. To achieve this goal, the demand for lithium-ion battery cells will increase from currently about 700 GWh/a to more than 2.5 TWh/a by 2030. This demand can only be met by the rapid construction of new manufacturing facilities to produce battery cells. Within the next few years, various new factories for secondary battery cells are planned in Europe alone.

To realize cell factories for gigawatt-scale production within a few years from the first planning draft to the production ramp-up requires various simultaneous development and planning processes. This includes many steps in factory, production, and plant planning. The simultaneous development of the battery cell as well as the planning of the production areas for electrode manufacturing, cell assembly and cell finishing are in direct interaction with each other and with several other aspects of factory planning. Data flow between these aspects is crucial. Delays in the planning process can lead to increased construction, investment, and operating costs as well as to a competitive disadvantage due to the later start of production. Cell finishing as the last stage in the production process chain includes all steps from soaking and formation up to and including the packaging in a fully automated plant. The efficient and resource-saving planning of the cell finishing is only possible in the interaction with the overall factory planning context.

This poster presents challenges while planning cell finishing in industrial scale and aims to highlight key factors for the planning process of future battery factories. This poster provides researchers, industry experts and companies with an insight into the planning process of battery cell production.