Measurement and management specialist Yokogawa Electrical will launch a brand new on-line sheet thickness gauge—the OpreX Battery Internet Gauge ES-5—as a part of the OpreX High quality Management System household, in January 2025.
Because the launch of its first on-line thickness gauge for sheet manufacturing gear in 1962, Yokogawa has been delivering ever-newer variations of those merchandise, that are utilized in last processes on manufacturing traces to repeatedly measure and management thickness, weight and different traits of sheet supplies equivalent to 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 Internet Gauge ES-5 was developed to assist battery producers cut 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 includes a 3-second scanning pace 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 Data Server, which collects knowledge from plant gear and methods to make sure that a fair coating is utilized to electrode sheets—an vital determinant of battery efficiency and high quality.
“Given the motion in direction of electrical autos, we have now developed this on-line thickness gauge for battery electrode sheets that makes use of the Collaborative Data Server as its system platform,” mentioned Yokogawa Electrical VP Hiroshi Tanoguchi. “Improvement was undertaken primarily based on the system-of-systems strategy,a wherein a set of independently operated and managed methods hook up with kind a bigger system, and the result’s a product that saves vitality and enhances high quality, well being, security and atmosphere.”
Supply: Yokogawa Electrical
