MATTER@SCALE - Maintenance of Battery Production at Industrial Scale

Purpose and goal:

The vision of the project is to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Swedish battery industry, and the purpose is to put maintenance organizations in the driver´s seat toward realizing the circularity of LIB production. Through excellent academic research and pioneering industry networking, the project aims to develop and scale the key enablers that allow maintenance organizations to meet the ambitious targets set for the Swedish battery industry.

The goal is that the enablers are fully ready and implementable by the time battery factories reach full production pace. Expected results and effects:

The project aims to develop and scale four categories of key enablers that allow maintenance organizations to meet the ambitious targets set for the Swedish battery industry: (1) human competencies, (2) organizational design, (3) equipment supplier relations, and (4) data analytics. The project will also establish a completely new industry network, spread the results through dissemination, education, and life-long learning, as well as leverage the insights to impact policy and regulations.

Approach and implementation:

The project is structured in six Work Packages (WP). WP1-4 contains the research efforts, WP5 focuses on dissemination, and WP6 serves the role of project management. The logic and structure of the WPs are based on the industrial and scientific state-of-the-art and motivated by the extraordinary battery supply chain complexity and how this puts pressure on maintenance organizations to realize circularity principles and achieve desired sustainability benefits.