• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • Capacitors
  • Resistors
  • Inductors
  • Filters
  • Fuses
  • Non-linear Passives
  • Applications
  • Integrated Passives
  • Oscillators
  • Passive Sensors
  • New Technologies
  • Aerospace & Defence
  • Automotive
  • Industrial
  • Market & Supply Chain
  • Medical
  • RF & Microwave
  • Telecommunication

Skeleton to Launch Fully Automated Supercapacitor Production Line

18.1.2023

KAMIC Group Acquires Wound Components Specialist AGW Electronics

2.6.2023

4th PCNS Registration Opens !

2.6.2023

Ceramic Capacitors Benefits in Military SiC Converters

1.6.2023

Exploring Frenetic and Maxwell Options for an Optimal Transformer Performance in LLC Circuit

31.5.2023

TT Electronics Unveils Busbar Shunt Resistors

31.5.2023

Bourns Releases New Power NTC Thermistors

31.5.2023
  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • EPCI Membership & Advertisement
  • About
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
Passive Components Blog
  • Home
  • NewsFilter
    • All
    • Aerospace & Defence
    • Antenna
    • Applications
    • Automotive
    • Capacitors
    • Circuit Protection Devices
    • Filters
    • Fuses
    • Inductors
    • Industrial
    • Integrated Passives
    • Market & Supply Chain
    • Medical
    • New Materials & Supply
    • New Technologies
    • Non-linear Passives
    • Oscillators
    • Passive Sensors
    • Resistors
    • RF & Microwave
    • Telecommunication

    KAMIC Group Acquires Wound Components Specialist AGW Electronics

    4th PCNS Registration Opens !

    Ceramic Capacitors Benefits in Military SiC Converters

    Exploring Frenetic and Maxwell Options for an Optimal Transformer Performance in LLC Circuit

    TT Electronics Unveils Busbar Shunt Resistors

    Bourns Releases New Power NTC Thermistors

    KYOCERA Developed Industry Leading 008004 Hi-Q MLCC for PA Modules

    MLCC Suppliers Reduced Production Capacity in 1H23 due to Weak Consumer Market Demand

    Introduction of Knowles MLCCs StackiCap, its Benefits and Applications

    Trending Tags

    • Ripple Current
    • RF
    • Leakage Current
    • Tantalum vs Ceramic
    • Snubber
    • Low ESR
    • Feedthrough
    • Derating
    • Dielectric Constant
    • New Products
    • Market Reports
  • VideoFilter
    • All
    • Antenna videos
    • Capacitor videos
    • Filter videos
    • Fuse videos
    • Inductor videos
    • Non-linear passives videos
    • Oscillator videos
    • Passive sensors videos
    • Resistor videos
    • Sensors

    Exploring Frenetic and Maxwell Options for an Optimal Transformer Performance in LLC Circuit

    Fast 25kW SiC EV Charger Design; OnSemi and Würth Elektronik Webinar

    PFC Inductor Magnetic Design Considerations; Frenetic Webinar

    Introduction to Capacitor Technologies; WE Webinar

    Self-Adjusting and Economical Switched Capacitor Balancer for Serially Connected Storage-Cells

    How to Design EMC Efficient Power Converter; WE Webinar

    Selecting Capacitors for High Power Buck-Booster Converters

    How to use Off-the-Shelf Transformers in Switching Power Supplies

    Simple Capacitors Pre-Charger Based on Unique ‘Floating Integrator’

    Trending Tags

    • Capacitors explained
    • Inductors explained
    • Resistors explained
    • Filters explained
    • Application Video Guidelines
    • EMC
    • New Products
    • Ripple Current
    • Simulation
    • Tantalum vs Ceramic
  • Knowledge Blog
  • Suppliers
    • Preferred Suppliers
    • Who is Who
  • Events
  • Home
  • NewsFilter
    • All
    • Aerospace & Defence
    • Antenna
    • Applications
    • Automotive
    • Capacitors
    • Circuit Protection Devices
    • Filters
    • Fuses
    • Inductors
    • Industrial
    • Integrated Passives
    • Market & Supply Chain
    • Medical
    • New Materials & Supply
    • New Technologies
    • Non-linear Passives
    • Oscillators
    • Passive Sensors
    • Resistors
    • RF & Microwave
    • Telecommunication

    KAMIC Group Acquires Wound Components Specialist AGW Electronics

    4th PCNS Registration Opens !

    Ceramic Capacitors Benefits in Military SiC Converters

    Exploring Frenetic and Maxwell Options for an Optimal Transformer Performance in LLC Circuit

    TT Electronics Unveils Busbar Shunt Resistors

    Bourns Releases New Power NTC Thermistors

    KYOCERA Developed Industry Leading 008004 Hi-Q MLCC for PA Modules

    MLCC Suppliers Reduced Production Capacity in 1H23 due to Weak Consumer Market Demand

    Introduction of Knowles MLCCs StackiCap, its Benefits and Applications

    Trending Tags

    • Ripple Current
    • RF
    • Leakage Current
    • Tantalum vs Ceramic
    • Snubber
    • Low ESR
    • Feedthrough
    • Derating
    • Dielectric Constant
    • New Products
    • Market Reports
  • VideoFilter
    • All
    • Antenna videos
    • Capacitor videos
    • Filter videos
    • Fuse videos
    • Inductor videos
    • Non-linear passives videos
    • Oscillator videos
    • Passive sensors videos
    • Resistor videos
    • Sensors

    Exploring Frenetic and Maxwell Options for an Optimal Transformer Performance in LLC Circuit

    Fast 25kW SiC EV Charger Design; OnSemi and Würth Elektronik Webinar

    PFC Inductor Magnetic Design Considerations; Frenetic Webinar

    Introduction to Capacitor Technologies; WE Webinar

    Self-Adjusting and Economical Switched Capacitor Balancer for Serially Connected Storage-Cells

    How to Design EMC Efficient Power Converter; WE Webinar

    Selecting Capacitors for High Power Buck-Booster Converters

    How to use Off-the-Shelf Transformers in Switching Power Supplies

    Simple Capacitors Pre-Charger Based on Unique ‘Floating Integrator’

    Trending Tags

    • Capacitors explained
    • Inductors explained
    • Resistors explained
    • Filters explained
    • Application Video Guidelines
    • EMC
    • New Products
    • Ripple Current
    • Simulation
    • Tantalum vs Ceramic
  • Knowledge Blog
  • Suppliers
    • Preferred Suppliers
    • Who is Who
  • Events
No Result
View All Result
Passive Components Blog
No Result
View All Result

Skeleton to Launch Fully Automated Supercapacitor Production Line

18.1.2023
Reading Time: 3 mins read
0
SHARES
18
VIEWS

Skeleton Technologies announced building of the world’s largest and most modern supercapacitor factory in Saxony, Germany.

The first-of-its-kind Leipzig Superfactory will include the inaugural fully automated supercapacitor production line. 

RelatedPosts

Skeleton Aims to Build Largest, Most Modern and Sustainable Supercapacitor Manufacturing Factory in the World

Researchers Demonstrated 5000F High-Energy Supercapacitor in an Industrial Cell Format

Supercapacitors vs. Batteries in Engine Starting – Skeleton Webinar

With the expected Start-Of-Production in 2024, construction is already underway for Leipzig Superfactory. Designed in cooperation with Siemens Digital Industries, it will increase Skeleton’s production capacity 40-fold, allowing us to meet the increasing demand from electrification and decarbonization projects globally.

Skeleton Technologies’ objective is to make its energy storage devices more affordable. The economies of scale provided by this new technology, combined with the use of our patented Curved Graphene raw material, will dramatically drive the production costs down, boosting the competitiveness of supercapacitors as the key enabling technology for the future of electrification. After the completion of the 5-year scale-up project, production costs are expected to lower by almost 90%.

Leading the automation of supercapacitor production

“Globally, only islands of automation are used at supercapacitor production sites. While the individual processes are automated, these islands of automation are separated by manual assembly and transport,” said Julius Beck, Senior Automation Engineer at Skeleton. Despite sharing commonalities with other energy storage devices like lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitor production is not as evolved due to its youth and around 50 times smaller market size.

“Globally, only islands of automation are used at supercapacitor production sites.”

Supercapacitor production consists of five main steps from electrode coating to cell testing. Let’s look at the first step to get a better understanding of the difference between semi-automated and automated production. 

  1. Electrode manufacturing (mixing, coating, calendering, slitting)
  2. Jellyroll winding 
  3. Roll-to-Cell assembly  
  4. Cell filling and closing 
  5. Cell testing 

“Current electrode production is accomplished by a partially automated coating line that gives feedback on product quality, but still requires permanent operator attention as well as diligent supervision of the product tracking system,” explains Skeleton’s Scale Up Equipment Launch Manager Taavi Pärtin. In addition, some quality tests must be conducted off-line, delaying feedback and corrective actions to the production operations.  

The electrode is only coated on one side and rolls must be brought back to the beginning of the line to be coated from the second side. In fully automated cell production, electrode production will still be based on wet coating techniques, but the implementation of a novel coating technique enables double-side coating that would half the throughput time per meter. 

According to Julius Beck, the automated line will utilize machine learning and in a later stage artificial intelligence to link quality control systems (coating thickness measurement by β-rays, coating width control by high-quality imaging techniques, humidity sensing by IR sensors) with production process control adjustments (coating head settings, drying oven settings). This link will result in automatic corrections, superior quality, and a more efficient production. 

In electrode calendaring and slitting, the respective electrode rolls will be recognized by radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, automatically adjusting machine settings as needed and leaving a clearly traceable product through all steps. Hand-over of slit electrodes to cell production processes will be machine directed with the option of being fully automated. 

“All manual inspection steps are removed and replaced with automatic processes.”

Cell assembly, filling and electrical testing production steps are fully automatic and do not require operator influence. “A big upgrade from the current cell production is that all manual inspection steps are removed and replaced with automatic processes that are faster and more reliable,” adds Taavi Pärtin.

Source: Skeleton Technologies

Related Posts

Market & Supply Chain

KAMIC Group Acquires Wound Components Specialist AGW Electronics

2.6.2023
2
Capacitors

4th PCNS Registration Opens !

2.6.2023
13
Aerospace & Defence

Ceramic Capacitors Benefits in Military SiC Converters

1.6.2023
9

Upcoming Events

Jun 13
June 13 @ 12:00 - June 16 @ 14:00 EDT

Pre Cap Visual Inspection per Mil-Std-883 (TM 2017)

Jun 14
11:00 - 12:00 CEST

STRETCH.flex 2.0 Stretchable PCB Technology to the Limits

Jun 20
June 20 @ 12:00 - June 22 @ 14:00 EDT

Copper and Gold Wire Bonding

View Calendar

Popular Posts

  • What is a Dielectric Constant of Plastic Materials ?

    4 shares
    Share 4 Tweet 0
  • Capacitor Selection for Coupling and Decoupling Applications

    28 shares
    Share 28 Tweet 0
  • Dielectric Constant and its Effects on the Properties of a Capacitor

    7 shares
    Share 7 Tweet 0
  • How to Choose the Right Inductor for DC-DC Buck Applications

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Filter Poles and Zeros Explained

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Leakage Current Characteristics of Capacitors

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Why Low ESR Matters in Capacitor Design

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Ripple Current and its Effects on the Performance of Capacitors

    3 shares
    Share 3 Tweet 0

Newsletter Subscription

 

PCNS Call for Papers !

Archive

2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017

Symposium

Passive Components Networking Symposium

Passives e-Learning

Knowledge Blog

  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • EPCI Membership & Advertisement
  • About

© EPCI - Premium Passive Components Educational and Information Site

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Video
  • Knowledge Blog
  • Preferred Suppliers
  • Events

© EPCI - Premium Passive Components Educational and Information Site

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.