US-based engineering startup Lumafield has launched its Battery Analysis Module, a powerful new tool designed to enhance the safety and quality of batteries. The module provides automated tools for measuring anode overhang distance, detecting debris and contaminants, assessing can integrity, and identifying common defects such as layer delamination. Combined with powerful trend analysis and statistical process control tools, the Battery Analysis Module provides a total quality solution for battery producers and gives manufacturing managers full confidence in the products they ship.
Lumafield’s Battery Analysis Module is the latest addition to Voyager, the company’s cloud-based software for analyzing industrial X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scans. Voyager is seamlessly integrated with Lumafield’s CT scanners—the office-friendly Neptune scanner and the automated, line-ready Triton inspection solution—to form a single, unified platform that gives engineers unprecedented insight into their products at every stage of the product development process, from initial R&D through high-volume production.
The global battery manufacturing industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by increasing demand for electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and portable electronics. This surge is expected to continue, with the battery market projected to exceed $130 billion by 2030. However, with this growth comes significant risk. Battery manufacturing defects have led to catastrophic failures, including fires and explosions, which pose serious safety threats and can result in costly recalls.
Lumafield’s Battery Analysis Module is a cutting-edge tool designed specifically for battery manufacturers. Leveraging the full richness of industrial CT data, the module offers advanced tools for detecting and visualizing critical defects in lithium-ion batteries, including contaminants, anode overhang irregularities, delamination, and dents and bulges in enclosures. It also tracks these attributes over time, giving manufacturing managers real-time insights into quality issues as they develop.
The Battery Analysis Module may be used alongside Lumafield’s own CT scanners as well as legacy CT systems through Uplink, which allows CT data from any scanner to be visualized, analyzed, and shared in Voyager.
“High-volume battery production is essential to the EV revolution, the global transition to renewable energy, and to the next generation of consumer and professional electronics. However, the battery industry faces enormous challenges in quality control. Batteries need to be nearly flawless to avoid catastrophic failures, and traditional quality control tools can’t look deeply enough to find every defect. Industrial CT is the best all-purpose inspection tool for batteries, and our Battery Analysis Module gives engineers the tools they need not only to catch flaws in real time, but also to track quality trends and fine-tune their processes.”
Eduardo Torrealba, Co-Founder and CEO of Lumafield
