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IonSight to be integrated into Honeywell's Battery Manufacturing Excellence Program
Honeywell selects Titan Advanced Energy Solutions’ IonSight battery cell inspection technology for integration into its Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform
Houston, October 7th, 2024 – Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) and Titan Advanced Energy Solutions (Titan) have entered in an agreement, which includes a demonstration showcase of Titan’s IonSight battery inspection platform, featuring its defect detection, cell uniformity determination and layer misalignment detection capabilities. Gigafactory partners will be offered a proof-of-concept demonstration, highlighting API-level integration with Honeywell’s Battery MXP, an end-to-end solution for smart battery manufacturing.
The project will deliver comprehensive, end-to-end visibility to cell manufacturing operations seeking cost-effective, high-quality battery production at scale. In a marked departure from inference-based inspection methods, such as electrochemical inspection (OCV, DCIR), or subsampling solutions, such as CT scans, Titan’s patented ultrasound solution captures a data-rich view of battery morphology for every cell, mapping and tracking process variability. IonSight’s software creates vast arrays of data that serve as inputs for proprietary AI-based algorithms, generating comprehensive insights about the cell and the manufacturing process.
"Our collaboration with Honeywell marks a significant step forward in our mission to help manufacturers deliver safe, high-quality batteries at a price accessible to all," said Shawn Murphy, Co-founder and CEO of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions. "By integrating IonSight into Honeywell's Battery MXP, we’re not just enhancing inspection capabilities—we’re fundamentally transforming smart manufacturing. This partnership establishes a closed feedback loop between the product and the production floor, enabling manufacturers to achieve advanced levels of quality and efficiency at scale. This is key to making next-gen battery technologies accessible and affordable for everyone." The project’s focus reflects the industry’s immediate need for advanced quality methods to support the rapid expansion of global battery production.
“The energy transition requires safe and reliable energy storage using lithium-ion batteries. Existing end of line QA/QC processes cannot inspect 100% of the produced cells leading to quality escapes. Titan AES automated ultrasound inline inspection capability combined with advanced AI/ML algorithms is a tremendous step in the direction to completely defect free lithium-ion batteries,” said Fredrik Westerberg, Marketing Director at Honeywell Industrial Automation.
About Honeywell
Honeywell is an integrated operating company serving a broad range of industries and geographies around the world. Our business is aligned with three powerful megatrends – automation, the future of aviation and energy transition – underpinned by our Honeywell Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Forge IoT platform. As a trusted partner, we help organizations solve the world's toughest, most complex challenges, providing actionable solutions and innovations through our Aerospace Technologies, Industrial Automation, Building Automation and Energy and Sustainability Solutions business segments that help make the world smarter and safer as well as more secure and sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
About Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
Titan is a pioneer in the development and deployment of ultrasound-based battery interrogation systems, an essential technology used to deliver industrial quality and analytics solutions to battery manufacturers. IonSight™ is Titan’s fully automated battery cell inspection platform, the first inline inspection system to analyze cell morphology and provide predictive characteristics of battery behavior. Learn more at www.titanaes.com.
Media Contact: Flavia Calvar (flavia@titanaes.com)
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That's a really solid move by Honeywell — the shift from sampling-based QC to inspecting 100% of cells with ultrasound is exactly what gigafactories need as they scale up. The closed feedback loop between production data and the manufacturing floor is the part that excites me most, since that's where real process improvements can come from. Speaking of image quality in manufacturing, I recently came across a low quality image maker that does the exact opposite of what IonSight does — it intentionally degrades images for memes and fake screenshots. Funny how both ends of the image quality spectrum have their uses.