Measurement and management specialist Yokogawa Electrical will launch a brand new on-line sheet thickness gauge—the OpreX Battery Net Gauge ES-5—as a part of the OpreX High quality Management System household, in January 2025.
For the reason that launch of its first on-line thickness gauge for sheet manufacturing tools in 1962, Yokogawa has been delivering ever-newer variations of those merchandise, that are utilized in closing processes on manufacturing strains to constantly measure and management thickness, weight and different traits of sheet supplies reminiscent of paper and movie. Amongst these merchandise is the WEBFREX3ES, which was developed to be used within the manufacturing of electrode sheets for lithium-ion and different battery sorts, is utilized by main battery producers.
The OpreX Battery Net Gauge ES-5 was developed to assist battery producers scale back CO2 emissions from their manufacturing processes and enhance productiveness, whereas retaining all of the options discovered within the WEBFREX3ES. The box-type body used within the new ES-5 reduces energy consumption by over 50%, weighs 75% much less, and reduces air consumption quantity by 90% compared to the WEBFREX3ES.
The ES-5 contains a 3-second scanning velocity for the 1,500 mm scan width, achieves high-density measurement of as much as 1,600 factors widthwise, and has a minimal 5 mm slit width decision.
The ES-5 is used with the OpreX Collaborative Info Server, which collects information from plant tools and methods to make sure that an excellent coating is utilized to electrode sheets—an necessary determinant of battery efficiency and high quality.
“Given the motion in direction of electrical automobiles, we now have developed this on-line thickness gauge for battery electrode sheets that makes use of the Collaborative Info Server as its system platform,” mentioned Yokogawa Electrical VP Hiroshi Tanoguchi. “Growth was undertaken based mostly on the system-of-systems method,a through which a set of independently operated and managed methods hook up with kind a bigger system, and the result’s a product that saves power and enhances high quality, well being, security and surroundings.”
Supply: Yokogawa Electrical