As the "heart" of new energy vehicles, the importance of power batteries is unquestionable. To achieve excellence in production, the quality and reliability of power batteries are critically dependent on the non-standard equipment production lines. These lines are crucial for manufacturing high-quality, high-performance, and reliable batteries, and they directly impact future production capacity. Generally speaking, non-standard equipment is developed and designed in sync with the planning and construction of the entire facility. This means that power battery non-standard equipment manufacturers must meet high standards in production equipment, process flows, management capability, and product quality.

The rapid development of new energy vehicles has driven the fast-paced growth of major power battery manufacturers, leading to the rapid expansion of equipment manufacturing companies. An influx of orders has created increasing pressure on power battery equipment manufacturers in terms of delivery capacity. However, most management methods for non-standard power battery equipment manufacturing remain outdated, with many tasks relying on manual tracking and execution. This can lead to disconnects between planning and execution, order delays, challenging management of outsourced suppliers, low efficiency in equipment assembly and commissioning, difficulties in production cost statistics, and opaque production progress tracking.

To address common production management issues with non-standard power battery equipment production lines, a leading global power battery manufacturer recently partnered with EMAN to sign the Equipment Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) project.

The project will encompass the manufacturer's 23 production bases nationwide, involving nearly 15 departments across various stages of the equipment manufacturing process, including scheduling, projects, production, assembly, outsourcing, quality, and warehousing. The aim is to establish a comprehensive digital operations management platform for equipment manufacturing that ensures transparency in production operations, coordination with both internal and external supply chains, quality management traceability, complete assembly production, and precise cost statistics. Additionally, by facilitating data flow during the manufacturing process, the project will enable seamless integration with ERP systems and other information systems, ultimately achieving the construction of a smart digital factory.

This collaboration with EMAN on the Equipment Manufacturing Operations Management platform project will support the power battery manufacturer in achieving the following digital transformation goals related to power battery production equipment and non-standard automated production lines:

Integrated Planning and Execution:
By considering the limited production capacity of equipment and resources, the implementation of APS advanced scheduling increases the agility and executability of plans. It ensures that process-level plans are promptly and directly dispatched to workshop production equipment and resources.

Real-Time Tracking of Complete Equipment Sets:
This feature ensures real-time tracking of all materials required for assembly. It provides timely alerts for the arrival times of critical materials, enhancing the executability of assembly tasks. By promptly engaging outsourced suppliers, warehouses, assembly, and planning, it safeguards project delivery timelines.

Transparent Manufacturing Process:
Through terminal data collection, real-time updates on workstation progress at the process, part, equipment, and project levels are achieved. This integration connects information between various workstations in the workshop, ensuring constraint and propulsion between preceding and subsequent processes.

Quality Traceability and Tracking:
The entire production process is electronically recorded, allowing for quick response to anomalies, with notifications promptly sent to handlers. Utilizing the PDCA cycle method enables strict quality control and handling, with statistical reporting of quality anomalies and analysis of exceptional costs.

Accurate Cost Statistics:
By collecting information from each cost center in the workshop, the system statistically analyzes production data, gathers actual work hours, and compares them with planned hours. This provides detailed data support for production decision-making.

The rapidly evolving new energy vehicle market has underscored challenges such as safety, cost, range anxiety, and lifespan, all of which point to the need for a revolution and upgrade in lithium battery manufacturing processes. Battery manufacturers must not only use innovative technologies to continually enhance product quality and production efficiency but also improve the flexibility, informatization, and intelligentization of equipment manufacturing. By doing so, they can shorten product development and delivery cycles to adapt to the rapidly changing market environment.

With its commitment to innovation-driven professionalism, EMAN is poised to leverage its expertise and experience to participate in the dynamic wave of intelligent manufacturing in the new energy sector, becoming an esteemed digital partner trusted by industry leaders.