Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB
Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB

Battery Factory Planning

What are the challenges in setting up battery production? How can the factory planning process be designed most effectively?

In collaboration with the PEM Chair at RWTH Aachen University and PEM Motion, the Fraunhofer Research Fab Battery Cell FFB aims to optimize the planning of factories to produce battery cells, modules, and packs for electric vehicles, while fostering innovation. As part of this initiative, we seek participants for a joint consortium study to develop solutions for existing challenges and uncover optimization opportunities.

Together with product and process development, factory planning is an essential component on the way to competitive battery cell production. Several target variables are important: quality, cost, product volume, sustainability, adaptability, and scalability. Successful factory planning projects are an elementary precursor to electromobility and the energy transition. You can get an insight into such a project in our whitepaper.

In a three-stage process, the interests of all parties involved in factory planning for battery production are first brought together. These areas of interest, such as the planning of clean rooms and dry rooms, give rise to specific challenges in the planning process. In the further course of planning, concrete solutions are developed based on these challenges and finally examined in detail in specific application cases.

Fraunhofer FFB is working together with the PEM Chair at RWTH Aachen University to make the production of battery cells for electric mobility efficient, sustainable, and future-oriented. In the “FFB PreFab” and as part of the PEM Battery Innovation Cluster (BIC) on the RWTH Aachen Campus, innovative product and production technologies as well as factory planning concepts can be tested for this purpose. 

Lehrstuhl PEM der RWTH Aachen

The Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) at RWTH Aachen University has been involved in the implementation of the "FoFeBat" project since the earliest stages of the Fraunhofer FFB. As an experienced partner, the experts at PEM support the "FoFeBat" project and work together with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to develop key content in strategy and technology development as well as in building and production planning. At the same time, the PEM supports communication with current and future industrial partners;