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The lines that stopped guessing

From stranded ramps to mature high-volume plants, these teams put autonomy on the step that was capping their yield — and measured what happened.

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Cell makers, EV OEMs and ESS suppliers [PLACEHOLDER]

Northvolt-class OEMVolta CellsAmperex ESSHelion MotorsKestrel EnergyAnode WorksPrisma CellsSilica PowerTerra Grid StorageMeridian EVCathode LabsAurora Gigafactory

Across the design-partner cohort

Each site's numbers are measured against its own audited pre-Anodela baseline.

+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

Plant, process and quality leaders

“We were stranded at 63% first-pass yield for five months. Anodela ran in shadow for six weeks, then took bounded control of coat weight and drying. We crossed 91% in the next quarter.”
Marta VogelPlant Director, Volta Cells
“It reads our CT and vision streams the way a great process engineer does — except it does it on every metre of web, on every shift, and it writes the correction back before the defect becomes scrap.”
Daniel OkaforHead of Process Engineering, Amperex ESS
“The audit trail was what got quality to yes. Every proposal, approval and executed setpoint is linked to cell genealogy, so our IATF evidence got stronger, not weaker.”
Sung-Ho ParkQuality Director, Prisma Cells

Who runs Anodela

EV cell makers

High-volume NMC and LFP lines where escapes become recalls and yield is the binding constraint.

ESS & grid storage

Long-life LFP producers competing on cost per kWh and cycle-life consistency.

Consumer cell makers

Tight-format lines with unforgiving cosmetic and internal defect tolerances.

Next-gen chemistry pioneers

Silicon-anode and solid-state lines discovering the process window for the first time.

Tier-1 pack suppliers

Incoming cell quality, genealogy and multi-source traceability.

Equipment OEMs

Partners shipping Anodela-ready autonomy with their coating, assembly and formation systems.

What successful deployments have in common

They picked one number

Every successful pilot named a single metric — first-pass yield on line 3, metal-particle escapes, formation hours per cell — and refused to add a second until the first moved.

  • One metric, one line, one quarter
  • Baseline agreed by finance before shadow mode ends
  • Expansion decided by the number, not by enthusiasm

They put quality in the room early

Sites that involved quality and EHS from week one armed control envelopes months earlier than sites that treated it as an IT project.

  • Quality owns envelope approval from the start
  • Audit trail reviewed before, not after, autonomy
  • EHS sign-off on fail-safe behaviour up front

They let engineers correct the model

The plants that improved fastest treated the review console as a training loop, not a chore. Corrections compounded into chemistry-specific accuracy within weeks.

  • Named engineers own the proposal queue per shift
  • Rejections are captured with a reason code
  • Accuracy scoreboard published on the floor

Selected results

Electrode · Q1 2026

Volta Cells: 63% to 91% first-pass yield in one quarter

A stranded NMC line where coat-weight drift and drying variation were the hidden cost.

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Contamination · Q4 2025

Helion Motors: metal-particle escapes cut to near zero

CT and vision fusion found a slitting burr signature the incumbent system could not see.

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Formation · Q3 2025

Kestrel Energy: 17% of formation hours removed

Per-cell protocols and channel re-sequencing released floor space and working capital.

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How customers typically progress

  1. Design partner

    Instrument the wedge workflow in shadow mode and establish the baseline.

  2. Paid pilot

    Assist mode with weekly accuracy and ROI review against the agreed metric.

  3. Production

    Bounded control armed on the first envelope; expansion to adjacent steps.

  4. Standard

    Anodela becomes the site's system of action and the multi-site template.

From the floor

“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.”
Elena RossiVP Manufacturing, Kestrel Energy
“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.”
James WhitcombeReliability Engineering Lead, Helion Motors
“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.”
Aiko TanakaGigafactory Program Director, Aurora

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.

Connected to the systems your line already runs on

Pre-built OT and API connectors read process, vision, X-ray/CT, formation and MES data — and write bounded setpoints back. Nothing rips and replaces; Anodela runs alongside the equipment you have qualified.

Coating & calendering

  • Dürr Megtec
  • Hirano
  • Toray
  • Manz
  • Bühler
  • Custom slot-die OT

Assembly & welding

  • Wuxi Lead
  • Hymson
  • Hitachi
  • Trumpf laser weld
  • IPG
  • Amada

Inline inspection

  • Cognex
  • Keyence
  • ISRA Vision
  • Nikon CT
  • Yxlon CT
  • PEMTRON

Formation & test

  • Wonik PNE
  • PNE Solution
  • Chroma
  • Digatron
  • Arbin
  • Neware

MES, quality & ERP

  • Siemens Opcenter
  • Rockwell FactoryTalk
  • iTAC
  • SAP
  • Ignition
  • AVEVA PI

Edge, robots & identity

  • NVIDIA Jetson / IGX
  • Isaac & Omniverse
  • Fanuc / KUKA
  • OPC UA & MQTT
  • Okta / Entra ID
  • K3s on-site

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Customer questions

Yes, after a scoping call and under NDA. Several design partners will speak to peers at a similar stage of ramp.

Only with written approval. Many cell makers treat process improvements as competitive information, and we respect that by default.

Then the pilot fails its gate and you walk away — which is exactly why pilots have a defined success metric and a defined exit.

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Design-partner slots are limited by our deployment engineering capacity, not by demand.

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