Electrode, assembly, formation
Commissioning software for cell plants where dry rooms and equipment arrive at the same time.
A gigafactory stacks electrode coating, calendering, assembly, formation and ageing on top of dry rooms, solvent recovery and heavy utilities. Deskely holds all of it in one register with dependencies modelled, so equipment is not commissioned into a room that cannot hold dew point.
- Blocks
- Electrode, assembly, formation
- Environment
- Dry rooms and dew point
- Suppliers
- Mostly international OEMs
- Gate
- Qualified cell output
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The problem
Equipment lands faster than the building can support it.
Coaters, calenders, stacking machines, formation racks and dry rooms all arrive against an aggressive schedule, with utilities and environmental conditions trailing behind them.
Coater, calender, slitter, stacker/winder and formation/ageing suppliers commission in parallel, each reporting into its own document set, and the plant discovers the real dew-point or solvent-recovery constraint during the first continuous coating run.
Deskely models the environmental and utility prerequisites explicitly, so acceptance cannot be claimed before the conditions that make it meaningful exist.
Setting up the register
Process blocks, dry rooms and utilities are separate subsystems with hard links.
Electrode, assembly and formation blocks hold their machines; dry rooms, solvent recovery, NMP handling, chilled water, compressed dry air and power sit as their own subsystems.
Equipment lists, layouts and I/O schedules become a reviewed register, so every machine carries its drawing and its dependencies.
That structure is what allows one block to be commissioned while the next is still being installed.
Execution
Installation, hook-up and SAT captured per machine, in the room.
Technicians and OEM engineers sign installation, alignment, utility hook-up, I/O checkout and functional records on tablets at the machine, including inside controlled areas.
Punch is raised with photos and categorised by whether it blocks SAT, block acceptance or ramp.
Progress rolls up per block, which is the level the ramp plan is actually managed at.
Acceptance and ramp
Cell quality depends on the chain, so acceptance follows the chain.
Machine SAT rolls into block acceptance, and block acceptance into a qualified end-to-end run, each with prerequisites enforced from the records beneath.
The dossier per block gives the operating team the settings, tests and supplier documentation it needs from day one.
Residual punch stays live through ramp with owners and dates instead of disappearing into a closeout report.
Dry room proving and NMP handling
A coater cannot be commissioned into a room that has not itself been proven to dew point, and solvent handling has to be proven before the coater is fed live NMP.
Dry room proving is a commissioning scope in its own right: dew point has to be demonstrated and held under load — with people, doors cycling and equipment running — not just measured once at handover with the room empty. A dry room that meets spec unoccupied and drifts once operators and material movement are introduced is a defect that will not show up until the first real production shift.
NMP solvent handling and recovery is the second load-bearing constraint on an electrode line: the coater cannot run live solvent until the solvent recovery system, vapour containment and gas detection interlocks are proven, and a coating line commissioned ahead of its solvent recovery system is a line that cannot actually coat.
Deskely holds dry room dew-point trending under load and solvent recovery and gas detection commissioning records as explicit prerequisites against the electrode block, so a coater's SAT cannot be signed off while the environment or the solvent system underneath it is still unproven — the exact failure mode that costs a gigafactory ramp the most time.
How it runs
From building envelope to a qualified cell.
Gigafactory ramps punish weak dependency modelling more than almost any other scope.
- 01
Model blocks and environment
Electrode, assembly and formation blocks plus dry rooms, solvent and utility subsystems.
- 02
Parse the equipment set
OEM equipment lists, layouts and I/O schedules drafted into a reviewed tag register.
- 03
Link environmental prerequisites
Dew point, cleanliness and utility availability recorded as prerequisites to machine acceptance.
- 04
Give OEMs scoped access
Each supplier signs its own machines while the plant sees one register.
- 05
Run staged acceptance
Installation, hook-up, I/O checkout, functional test and SAT recorded per machine.
- 06
Accept per block
Block acceptance issued from machine records, feeding an end-to-end qualified run.
FAQ
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