According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, from January to May 2017, the production and sales of new energy vehicles were 147,000 and 136,000, an increase of 11.7% and 7.8% year-on-year. Among them, the production and sales of pure electric vehicles were 122,000 and 111,000, a year-on-year increase of 22.8% and 20.7%. In the lithium battery market, the power battery has increased from 43% in 2016 to 55% in the first half of 2017, and the market prospect has been rising all the way.
The power battery industry is booming. Qidian research data shows that in the first half of 2017, the power lithium battery market structure was further concentrated, and the TOP10 concentration rate exceeded 80%. Industry competition is intensifying.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also clearly stated in the "Standard Conditions for the Automotive Power Battery Industry (2017)" that it is necessary to fully control the production process, and requires the establishment of a quality management and traceability system. It marks that the country's guiding policy has shifted from "quantity improvement" to "quality improvement".
In this context, it is the general trend for the power battery industry to adapt to the high-end market of new energy vehicles. How to improve product yield, safety, etc., "reduce costs, increase efficiency, and maintain quality and quantity" will become a long-term topic for Chinese power battery companies. Due to the specifications of TS16949 and national mandatory standards, power battery companies need to control the entire process of process planning, production process, quality parameters, inventory information, and shipments in the production process.
Therefore, the implementation of MES has become an indispensable part of the road of enterprise informatization, and the implementation of MES system is also the only way for enterprises to realize intelligent manufacturing.
The production of power batteries has the following obvious characteristics:
In the traditional power battery production process, there are some problems that restrict the further improvement of product quality and production management——
Why is the power battery market strong? MES system becomes the secret
In addition, enterprises are also faced with many problems such as equipment maintenance and personnel management. How to solve these problems through the MES system, implement the functional modules of MES, and "tailor the clothes" according to the actual production needs of the enterprise has become particularly important.
The power battery production line establishes an MES system to upgrade the production line from an automated production line to a digital production line. To do a digital production line, the following should be considered during the production process:
To truly achieve an intelligent production line, it is necessary to achieve interconnection. Interconnection refers to connecting equipment to the Internet and controlling equipment; interoperability refers to connecting various management systems through interfaces to obtain and share data. Interconnection is the only way for enterprise informatization construction, and it is the basis for enterprises to achieve transparent, balanced, and visualized development.
Battery manufacturing has entered the stage of development from large-scale manufacturing to high-quality manufacturing. Quality competition has become the core competitiveness of enterprises. On the one hand, enterprises must pay attention to the research and development of battery materials, and on the other hand, they must realize the upgrading of the manufacturing process. During this process, The rapid implementation of the basic engineering MES system for high-quality manufacturing has become the only choice for battery companies, and then the establishment of a data-based production analysis and evaluation system is the key to promoting the transformation and upgrading of battery companies.