Intelligent MES: The key to scalable and efficient battery manufacturing
Why battery production and process scalability are the hot topics in 2025
The world is at the tipping point of a mobility revolution. As electric vehicles (EVs) become mainstream and energy storage needs soar, battery manufacturing has rocketed to the center of industrial innovation. OEMs and suppliers are racing to expand capacity, improve quality, and reduce costs. Yet, as the volume and expectations rise, so do the challenges. The future of e-mobility hinges on one critical question: Are manufacturers able to produce high-quality batteries reliably, transparently and flexibly on a large scale?
Content
- Battery manufacturing: quality challenges and opportunities in a complex landscape
- Why traditional systems fail to ensure process scalability and quality
- The solution: MES for battery production with intelligent manufacturing software
- What is a MOM?
- Why MES for battery production matters for the future of E-Mobility
Battery manufacturing: quality challenges and opportunities in a complex landscape
Walk into a modern smart factory and you’ll sense the pressure and precision in the air. Here, battery cells are meticulously crafted from raw materials like lithium, nickel, and cobalt. Unwavering attention to detail is demanded at each stage: coating electrodes, assembling cells, formation, testing and pack integration. One minor deviation in temperature or humidity can jeopardize an entire batch, affecting not just performance but also the safety and lifespan of the finished battery.
But the complexity doesn’t end on the shop floor. The battery manufacturing process is a marathon of compliance and traceability. Regulations such as the EU battery passport, ISO standards, and GMP guidelines require manufacturers to document every step, every material, and every operator action. Traceability is not just a best practice; it is a lifeline for quality, safety and brand reputation.
And as the e-mobility market accelerates, manufacturers find themselves juggling ever more variant-rich production. New chemistries and cell formats (from prismatic to pouch) are introduced at breakneck speed. Production lines must adapt quickly to changing designs and customer requirements, all while maintaining cleanroom-level control. In this high-stakes environment, downtime and defects are costly setbacks, not just financially but for the race to market leadership.
Many production managers report the same problems: constant 'firefighting' to address quality deviations, huge amounts of paperwork for documentation, and the fear that a single error could have a knock-on effect on the entire supply chain. The pressure to deliver more without compromising on quality or compliance is enormous.
Why traditional systems fail to ensure process scalability and quality
For decades, many battery plants have relied on a patchwork of legacy IT systems and manual processes. Production data lives in disconnected silos, with operators logging batch results by hand or in spreadsheets. When something goes wrong, finding the root cause can take hours or even days. Real-time oversight is elusive, and integration with ERP, PLM, or SCADA systems is often limited or non-existent.
In such an environment, manufacturers are left operating with only partial visibility. They react to problems rather than anticipate them. Compliance audits become a scramble to piece together evidence. Scaling up production means multiplying complexity, not control.
This old paradigm is simply unsustainable in today’s e-mobility era. As battery lines multiply and global supply chains grow more intricate, only an intelligent, unified manufacturing platform can provide the insight, agility, and traceability to keep pace.
The solution: MES for battery production with intelligent manufacturing software
Enter the new age of battery manufacturing – powered by intelligent battery manufacturing process control and advanced battery manufacturing solutions. With a solution like iTAC.MOM.Suite, manufacturers gain a digital backbone that connects every process from electrode production to pack assembly. Instead of fragmented data, you get real-time, end-to-end visibility. Every material, machine, and human action is tracked, analyzed, and optimized. Quality issues can be detected and resolved before they escalate. Compliance moves from burden to advantage, with digital records and workflows at your fingertips.
Let's consider a greenfield battery production project as an example.
The goal: build a fully digital factory from the ground up, free from legacy constraints.
By implementing iTAC.MOM.Suite as the central smart factory software backbone, the team achieved:
- Real-time transparency
- Robust traceability
- Scalable foundation
This approach ensures they can innovate and expand without compromise, leveraging automation, analytics, and production management for adaptive battery production.
What is a MOM?
Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software is an evolution of the MES solutions. MOM represents an overarching concept that integrates MES-driven production processes into the broader business processes of value creation. While MES focuses on shop-floor execution and production tasks, MOM coordinates information across multiple areas of the enterprise.
In addition to MES functions, MOM encompasses adjacent domains such as:
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Product development and planning of production steps
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Sales planning and commercial order processing
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): Execution of production orders
- Quality Management Software (QMS): Ensuring product quality
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Platform: Aggregating machine and sensor data for real-time process monitoring
MOM can thus be described as a comprehensive concept for optimizing the entire value creation process. Companies achieve this through digital management of manufacturing operations and cross-divisional information exchange. Seamless communication from shop floor to management level ensures that all IT systems, from MES to ERP, work in harmony.
Why MES for battery production matters for the future of E-Mobility
The journey to electrified mobility is far from simple, but comprehensive MES software makes it achievable. With iTAC.MOM.Suite, manufacturers can finally bridge the gap between quality, compliance, and scalability. They can adapt to new battery designs, ramp up production, and meet the strictest environmental and regulatory standards while keeping costs and risks in check.
As battery production becomes becomes essential to the electric vehicle revolution, only intelligent, integrated MES solutions can deliver the quality, compliance, and scalability required to stay ahead. iTAC.MOM.Suite provides the digital backbone for next-generation battery manufacturing, enabling manufacturers to combine quality, compliance, and scalability in one intelligent platform.
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