Anodela Coat — Autonomous coating and calendering control
Continuous coat weight, thickness and porosity control across the full web, with closed-loop correction of pump rate, die gap, tension and drying zones.
Anodela is modular by design: license the product that fixes your worst step, prove the ROI, then expand across the line, the plant and the network.
Trusted by cell makers, EV OEMs and ESS suppliers
Every module runs on the same factory edge runtime, shares the same world model, and writes into the same assurance-grade audit trail.
Continuous coat weight, thickness and porosity control across the full web, with closed-loop correction of pump rate, die gap, tension and drying zones.
Coating defects, wrinkles, pinholes, streaks, burrs, metal particles, weld quality and internal defects sensed and predicted from vision and inline X-ray/CT.
Sub-millimetre control and verification of tab and terminal welding, electrolyte fill and sealing, with void and misalignment prediction.
Per-cell formation protocols, channel scheduling, degassing, end-of-line test and grading accuracy from the full curve.
First-pass yield optimization, scrap recovery, WIP routing, rework sequencing and moving-line takt balancing.
Simulate the whole cell process and hit target yield, quality and takt before the run — including new lines and new chemistries.
Fixed recipes assume the slurry, the web and the ambient dry room never move. They always move. Coat holds the porosity and loading window by adjusting the levers continuously.
Spot inspection samples a fraction of the web and a fraction of the cells. Inspect scores every metre and every cell, and fuses CT with surface vision to catch what neither sees alone.
Fixed formation protocols are sized for the weakest cell on the line. Form tailors the protocol per cell inside your qualified limits and re-sequences channels every minute.
Most sites land on one module and expand within two quarters.
| Module | Primary metric moved | Typical wedge | Autonomy path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anodela Coat | Coat-weight CV, electrode scrap | Electrode line with yield drift | Shadow → bounded setpoint control |
| Anodela Inspect | Escape rate, false calls, scrap | Contamination or defect escapes | Shadow → auto-quarantine |
| Anodela Assemble | Weld and fill defect rate | Assembly rework and rejects | Shadow → bounded weld trim |
| Anodela Form | Formation cost, grading accuracy | Formation as cost or capacity constraint | Advisory → per-cell protocols |
| Anodela Yield | First-pass yield, takt | Whole-line balancing | Advisory → routing control |
| Anodela Twin | Ramp time to target yield | New line or new chemistry | Simulation only, gates all others |
OT and API connectors to coating, inspection, formation, robots and MES — typically two to four weeks.
Six weeks of shadow mode establishes an audited baseline your finance team accepts.
The agent proposes, your engineer approves, and accuracy is measured against the engineer baseline.
Quality signs off an envelope, the twin validates it, and bounded control is armed.
Select a module to see the decisions it takes over and the metric it moves.
Closed-loop die gap, web tension and drying setpoints inside the qualified window.
Density and thickness held to target as roll conditions drift.
Burr and edge-quality signatures caught before they become internal defects.
Alignment corrected in real time from vision, with reject prediction.
Per-joint parameter adaptation with weld-quality scoring on every cell.
Leak and fill-weight anomalies caught at the station, not at end of line.
Rare cosmetic and coating defects detected with far fewer false calls.
Internal defect recall lifted by fusing CT with surface and process signals.
Every defect traced back to the roll, zone, slitter or station that caused it.
Formation curves modelled per cell within the qualified limits.
Channel allocation re-sequenced continuously to raise utilisation.
Full-curve features improve binning accuracy and reduce mis-graded cells.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
Cell manufacturing is safety-critical and IP-dense. Anodela is designed so quality, IT/OT and EHS approvers can say yes.
SOC 2 Type II program with encryption in transit and at rest, SSO/SAML, SCIM and RBAC down to the line.
Chemistry, coat-weight and formation recipes stay in your tenant. Optional fully on-prem deployment with no egress.
Every perception, proposal, approval and executed setpoint change is immutably logged for IATF 16949 and IEC 62660 evidence.
EU, US, Korea, Japan and China-domestic regions, or air-gapped factory edge for sovereign programs.
Land on one high-ROI workflow, expand line by line and site by site. Annual prepay saves 18%; the highest-value workflows can be priced on measured yield, scrap and formation-cost outcomes.
Yes — that is the Line plan at $18,000 per production line or coating/assembly cell per month, covering one wedge workflow.
No, though they compound. Inspect makes Coat's corrections sharper; Twin gates every autonomy envelope; Yield gets better as more steps are instrumented.
Twin is included with the Factory plan and available as an add-on for Line customers running a commissioning or chemistry-transfer project.
Tell us where the scrap is. We will tell you which module moves it fastest and by how much.