Catching Scrap Early in Battery Gigafactories
Why cell plants still scrap 15-30% of early output, and how inline measurement and cell genealogy move defect detection from the gate back to the coater.
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Articles tagged “machine vision” on the Zoniax blog — field notes on industrial operations intelligence.
Why cell plants still scrap 15-30% of early output, and how inline measurement and cell genealogy move defect detection from the gate back to the coater.
Where machine vision, soft sensors, and predictive maintenance actually have to run on a regulated production line.
Cameras grade scrap by sight, but it takes spectroscopy to read the copper that wrecks a heat, and a control loop to act before the grab closes.
A vision cell sees what a tired inspector misses, but only if the engineering and the claims around it are honest.