DigiTwin - Digital Twin for Quality and Yield Improvement of Battery GigaFactory

新兴的英国电池工厂将需要与全球电动汽车超级工厂竞争生产率，而竞争的关键因素是提高产量并迅速达到稳定状态。英国电池工业化中心与Waygate Technologies和PXL-ICE认为，UKBIC的数字孪生体与关键工艺领域的物理制造生产线相关联，将改善这两个因素，并解决以下问题：目前电动汽车电池工厂的初始产量通常低至75%，通过使用质量门数据驱动的数字孪生体，使用x射线CT等检测技术，我们相信，使用“控制塔”来管理和融合质量门之间的数据，可以优化和增加这一点。建立这个数字孪生和IT/IS架构的可行性是这个项目的交付成果，它的范围是打算在6个月的时间内进行可行性研究，并在确定提议的解决方案确实有效后，但在这个项目的范围之外，在12个月的时间内建立和实施这个解决方案。该项目将与UKBIC和Waygate Technologies最近（2022年7月）宣布的合作关系保持一致。基本项目的可交付成果是证明建立的数字双UKBIC与电池制造过程中的关键参数将提供更高的产量和更低成本的改进预测和决定的便利在UKBIC推进这种解决方案的实现将有利于UKBIC客户和更广泛的行业UKBIC履行职责提供英国电池蓬勃发展的学习环境制造业。它还将展示CT扫描作为一种先进的分析工具的有效性，它可以比传统的检测方法更快、更准确地识别、分析和解决质量缺陷。

The emerging UK Battery Factories will need to compete for productivity with Global EV GigaFactories and to compete there is a key consideration for increasing the yield and getting to steady state quickly. The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre with Waygate Technologies and PXL-ICE believe that a digital twin of UKBIC linked to the physical manufacturing production lines at key process areas will improve these two factors and address the following issues:Current yields in EV Battery factories are typically as low as 75% initially, and with the use of a digital twin powered by data from Quality Gates using inspection technologies such as X-Ray CT, and Visual Cameras we believe this can be optimised and increased using a 'control tower' to manage and fuse data between quality gates.The establishment of the feasibility of this digital-twin and an IT/IS architecture is the deliverable of this project, and it is scoped with the intention to conduct the feasibility study over a 6 month period and, having established that the proposed solution does work, but outside the scope of this project, to build and implement this solution within a 12 month timescale. This project will align very well with the recent (July 2022) announcement of the partnership between UKBIC and Waygate Technologies.The fundamental deliverables of the project are to demonstrate that establishing a digital twin of UKBIC linked to key parameters in the battery manufacturing process will deliver the predicted improvement of higher yield and lower cost and the facilitation of a decision to move forward with the implementation of this solution in UKBIC which will be to the benefit of UKBIC's clients and wider industry as UKBIC fulfils its remit to provide the learning environment for the burgeoning UK battery manufacturing industry. It will also demonstrate the effectiveness of CT scanning as an advanced analytical tool to identify, analyse and resolve quality defects much faster and more accurately than traditional inspection methods.