Automation in the automotive industry

Innovation

Successful planning of battery cell production

Battery cell production plays a decisive role in the development of modern energy storage solutions, especially for electric vehicles. Given the increasing demand for efficient and environmentally friendly batteries, this market offers enormous potential. In the following interview, Jochen Luik, Electronics Global Industry Segment Manager at Festo, provides insights into the most important aspects and challenges of battery cell production.

In practice

Producing twenty times more

A twenty-fold increase in production was the goal of the Croatian car cosmetics company Alfa Car. To achieve this, the entire production cycle, housed in a new production plant, was automated. Festo supplied a complete solution for more than 200 process valves – including project management.

Innovation

The road to Le Mans

When racing, drivers usually use their arms and legs constantly to operate the accelerator, gears, clutch and brakes. The newly developed pneumatic control system from Team BRIT and MME Motorsport means that all of the team’s racing drivers can now compete in races using the same car, regardless of their physical limitations. Spurred on by this innovation, the drivers have now set themselves an ambitious goal: the Le Mans endurance race.