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Automation as the key to the battery life cycle

The circular process of battery production poses new challenges for everyone involved. The focus is on quantity, quality and costs. Our innovative automation solutions are specifically geared towards the requirements of the industry.

Given the enormous demand for batteries for electric vehicles, gigafactories are being built around the world. Each phase, from preparing the raw material, producing the cells, integrating the batteries into the vehicle and recycling them, has its own special requirements. The challenge is to produce large quantities of high-quality batteries as cost-efficiently as possible. The solution lies in efficient automation.

The number of vehicles with electric drives is continuously increasing and is making a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of road traffic. However, at the end of the battery's life cycle, the question of how to recycle the materials inside the battery raises its head. Automation not only enables battery cells to be produced economically, but also allows the recycling processes to be precisely monitored and controlled. Valuable materials can be efficiently recovered from the batteries by using automated systems and then be reused. This guarantees a more sustainable and environmentally friendly value chain.

Phases of the battery life cycle

Overview of the battery life cycle

Start of the life cycle: clockwise from the left.

Festo product portfolio for battery production

Producing batteries is an extremely sensitive process. Each phase of the production environment, whether processing, transport or quality inspection, should therefore be clean.

Find out how to produce safe batteries with non-ferrous metal-free automation components in our catalogue 'Products for battery production'.