Why coat-weight CV is the number that predicts your ramp
A walk through the correlation between coating uniformity and first-pass yield across nine lines.
Read the noteField notes from the cell line
Written by the engineers who deploy Anodela. Specific, technical and honest about what does not work yet.
Recent notes
Finding metal particles before they find your customer
Fusing inline CT with surface vision to catch what end-of-line electrical test never will.
Read the noteFormation is 24% of cell cost. Treat it like it.
Per-cell protocols, channel scheduling and where the real hours actually go.
Read the noteOn trust and control
The five levels of manufacturing autonomy
A shared vocabulary for shadow, advisory, bounded control, supervised and full autonomy.
Read the noteWhat a control envelope actually contains
Setpoints, ranges, preconditions, twin validation, fallback and a named approver.
Read the noteWhy we built the audit trail before the agents
Accountability is the precondition for autonomy in a qualified manufacturing process.
Read the noteHow it works under the hood
A 250 ms budget from photon to setpoint
Camera, CT and PLC timing on Jetson and IGX, and where the milliseconds go.
Read the noteSimulating a coater well enough to trust it
Physics-informed surrogates, as-built calibration and the limits of a digital twin.
Read the noteSmall data, hard physics, real constraints
Why physics-informed models beat brute scale when each chemistry has months of data, not years.
Read the noteMarket and strategy
The yield gap is the real capacity gap
Announced gigawatt-hours versus delivered gigawatt-hours, and what closes the difference.
Read the noteAutonomy inside IATF 16949
How autonomous change control can strengthen, rather than threaten, your qualification.
Read the noteTwelve months to target yield is possible
What the fastest ramps we have seen did differently, step by step.
Read the noteThe numbers behind the writing
+14.6 ptsFirst-pass yield lift across design-partner lines
38%Reduction in electrode and cell scrap
17%Less formation time and energy per cell
<250 msInspection-to-decision latency at the factory edge
Read by process and quality teams across the industry [PLACEHOLDER]
Northvolt-class OEMVolta CellsAmperex ESSHelion MotorsKestrel EnergyAnode WorksPrisma CellsSilica PowerTerra Grid StorageMeridian EVCathode LabsAurora Gigafactory
What we write about
Electrode processes
Mixing, coating, drying, calendering and slitting.
Assembly & welding
Stacking, winding, tab welding and sealing.
Formation & aging
Protocols, grading, channel scheduling and cost.
Simulation
Digital twins, commissioning and scenario validation.
Quality & standards
IATF 16949, IEC 62660, traceability and evidence.
Edge AI
Real-time perception, model serving and deployment on the floor.
What people tell us
“Formation was 24% of our cell cost. Anodela re-sequenced channels and trimmed the protocol per cell, and we took 17% of the formation hours out without touching a single capacity spec.”
“Metal-particle escapes were our nightmare. The contamination model flags a signature our inspection vendor simply does not see, and it quarantines the affected cells automatically.”
“We commissioned line four with the twin first. It predicted the calendering window that would hold porosity, and the real line matched it within tolerance on week two.”
Built for the assurance bar of battery manufacturing
Cell manufacturing is safety-critical and IP-dense. Anodela is designed so quality, IT/OT and EHS approvers can say yes.
SOC 2 & ISO 27001
SOC 2 Type II program with encryption in transit and at rest, SSO/SAML, SCIM and RBAC down to the line.
IP & recipe protection
Chemistry, coat-weight and formation recipes stay in your tenant. Optional fully on-prem deployment with no egress.
Assurance-grade audit trail
Every perception, proposal, approval and executed setpoint change is immutably logged for IATF 16949 and IEC 62660 evidence.
Data residency
EU, US, Korea, Japan and China-domestic regions, or air-gapped factory edge for sovereign programs.
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