Lumafield’s new Battery Analysis Module is designed to enhance the safety and quality of batteries by providing automated tools for identifying and characterizing common manufacturing defects in batteries.

The module provides automated tools for measuring anode overhang distance, detecting debris and contaminants, assessing can integrity, and identifying common defects such as layer delamination. It also tracks these attributes over time, giving manufacturing managers real-time insights into quality issues as they develop.

Lumafield’s Battery Analysis Module is the latest addition to Voyager, the company’s cloud-based software for analyzing industrial X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scans. Voyager is seamlessly integrated with Lumafield’s CT scanners—the office-friendly Neptune scanner and the automated, line-ready Triton inspection solution. The Battery Analysis Module may also be used with legacy CT systems through Uplink, which allows CT data from any scanner to be visualized, analyzed and shared in Voyager.

“High-volume battery production is essential to the EV revolution and the global transition to renewable energy,” said Eduardo Torrealba, co-founder and CEO of Lumafield. “However, the battery industry faces enormous challenges in quality control. Batteries need to be nearly flawless to avoid catastrophic failures, and traditional quality control tools can’t look deeply enough to find every defect. Industrial CT is the best all-purpose inspection tool for batteries, and our Battery Analysis Module gives engineers the tools they need not only to catch flaws in real time, but also to track quality trends and fine-tune their processes.”

The Battery Analysis Module will be available to select partners this fall, and to all customers in early 2025.

Source: Lumafield