Configuration of a Multi-use Battery Production

Electric vehicles are widely regarded as one solution of future mobility. However, they still pose multifarious challenges as the increase in demand for electric vehicles, the diversity of battery variants, the development of new battery designs and the alternative usable manufacturing technologies in the production process. Hence a battery assembly which enables its changeability and its reuse is required. Furthermore expensive raw materials, safety aspects and a so far not fully automated process chain require the integration of quality assurance aspects during assembly planning. Therefore product developers and machinery and plant engineers are supported in planning a quality ensured changeable and reusable - a so called multi-use - battery assembly. To this end, a configurator has to be developed to provide the planner a decision support. The configurator has to deduce from product-specifications single assembly stations for its battery assembly, evaluates them regarding their changeability and reuse as well as the OEE and costs of the entire assembly line and gives a prioritized list of assembly alternatives as the output.