EP4310040A1 - Procédé et système de suivi mis en oeuvre par ordinateur d'historique de production d'une bande continue - Google Patents

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EP4310040A1
EP4310040A1 EP22185937.4A EP22185937A EP4310040A1 EP 4310040 A1 EP4310040 A1 EP 4310040A1 EP 22185937 A EP22185937 A EP 22185937A EP 4310040 A1 EP4310040 A1 EP 4310040A1
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Cecilia Margareta BRUHN
Clemens Otte
Axel Reitinger
Gunnar Stoelben
Marc Christian Weber
Jonas Witt
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H26/00—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms
    • B65H26/02—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to presence of irregularities in running webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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  • the present invention relates to a method and a system for computer-implemented tracking of production history of a continuous web.
  • the present invention relates to the process of manufacturing battery cells having a continuous electrode carrier material.
  • a known solution to track production relevant information is to introduce space indices, e.g., relative to the cell's electrode materials for all process recording, such as parameters critical to quality/process, recipes used, etc. This enables electronic production recordings and/or queries based on segments or positions on electrodes. However, this procedure is time consuming and complex.
  • the invention provides a method for computer-implemented tracking of production history of a continuous web, which is processed in a production system.
  • the continuous web may be, in particular, a continuous electrode carrier material used for battery cell production.
  • the production system comprises at least one sub-system applied to perform one or more specific operations, where the continuous web is transported along a (curved) given path through the production system by winding/unwinding from/onto a coil.
  • the following steps a) to c) are performed at each time point of one or more time points during the operation of the production system.
  • measured data of the continuous web are obtained while being transported along the given path.
  • the term "measured data” refers to digital data.
  • the term "obtaining measured data” means that the data are received by a processor implementing the method of the invention.
  • the measured data are current time-stamped measured data (i.e., real time data) acquired by at least one of a sensor or a measuring device installed at or in the vicinity of the production system along the given path. The spatial position of each sensor and measuring device with respect to the given path is known.
  • step b) movement information of the continuous web is obtained.
  • obtaining movement information means that the movement information, such as a speed or speed variations of the continuous web, is received by the processor implementing the method of the invention.
  • step c) production relevant features of the continuous web are determined by processing the time-stamped measured data and the movement information of the continuous web by mapping the time-stamped measured data to physical points of the continuous web.
  • the method of the invention provides an easy and straightforward method for providing production-relevant features of respective physical points of regions of the continuous web which, when stored in a data base, enable tracking of production history of the continuous web.
  • the production-relevant features of respective physical points of regions of the continuous web represent a virtual electrode web representation containing production-relevant features of physical points of regions of the continuous web.
  • Knowledge about the production history of the continuous web allows search for production anomalies for failure identification and root cause analysis at a later point in time. Furthermore, an identification of cause-and-effect relationships is possible. As a further advantage, an increase in positioning resolution of web segments can be achieved. Moreover, (re-)identification and linking of spatial segments downstream production processes by providing an information fingerprint without/or with significantly less invasive markers as in the past is possible.
  • Tracking of the production history enables an online-adaption of control parameters depending on feature information of current web segments. It furthermore allows early stopping of production cycles due to quality alerts or decision support for recycling such that components with a huge number of defects do not need to be scrapped as a whole. All these items help to reduce scrap, increase efficiency and, thus, save cost or energy during the battery cell production. Lifetime and quality of produced battery cells at the end of production can be therefore optimized.
  • the method as described herein can be derived from existing production equipment using standard factory automation systems. They already allow continuous, i.e., high-resolution, spatial feature mapping. The acquired measured data allow generation of characteristic fingerprints through spatially aligned and consistent feature vectors.
  • the spatial position of each sensor and measuring device with respect to the given path is determined by a one-time reference calibration.
  • the one-time reference calibration is executed before steps a) to c), as set out above, are performed. For reference calibration, the following steps are performed.
  • step a1) spatial markers are attached on the continuous web.
  • the spatial markers may be removable markers or laser-code print marks on the edges of the continuous web.
  • step a2) the continuous web is moved during calibration at a given velocity.
  • the velocity does not change during the whole reference calibration.
  • the velocity is slow, i.e., slower than the speed with which the continuous web is moved along the given path during a regular production process.
  • step a3) time steps are acquired, whenever a position of a certain sensor or a measuring device is crossed.
  • sensors can be optical sensors, such as cameras.
  • the camera may work in the infrared spectrum of light.
  • the measuring device may be a device for determining the thickness of a coating, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor and so on.
  • the certain sensors or measuring devices are mounted along the production path of the given process.
  • step a4) time gaps between two adjacent positions are transformed into relative spatial distances or absolute coordinates of a first frame using a pre-defined first point of origin.
  • a first frame may be regarded as a coordinate system of the production system. It is referred to as a machine (production) coordinate system herein as well.
  • the first point of origin may correspond to a part of the production system, optionally being marked with a unique marker placed within the field of view of an optical sensor.
  • the first point of origin corresponds to a fixed marker observable in the field of view of the sensor located at an end of the given path.
  • end of the given path is to be understood that all production steps before winding onto the coil have been finished.
  • the sensor observing the fixed marker may be located close to the winding coil. However, it may be arranged at a different place in an end section of the given path after the specific production steps have been finished.
  • projected positions of each sensor and measuring device along the given path are stored.
  • the protected positions relate to the first frame in which the (curved) given path is unwinded.
  • a pre-defined second point of origin of a second frame of the continuous web is obtained by processing measured data of a certain sensor or measuring device.
  • the second frame may be regarded as a web coordinate system.
  • the second point of origin corresponds to a visible characteristic of the continuous web observable in the field of view of the sensor located at the end of the given path.
  • a practical choice for defining such an origin of the continuous web is a leading edge of a coating area (in case the production system and its sub-system executes coating), as it can be easily recognized by optical image processing. Furthermore, it is unlikely that coated areas are cut-off later along the production processes.
  • the second frame refers to the continuous web fully unwinded along its length dimension, where each physical point can be identified by coordinates along the unwinded length dimension and perpendicular to the length dimension, which runs along a width direction of the continuous web.
  • Coordinates in the second frame may comprise a further information about a side of the continuous web, i.e., an upper side or a lower side.
  • step c) the following steps are performed.
  • step c1) for each physical point or region of points on the continuous web, the moment in time when the corresponding sensor or measuring device positioned along the direction of movement was crossed is computed.
  • step c2) the time-stamped measured data is queried to obtain the features which are associated to the corresponding sensor or measuring device. Querying the time-stamped measured data may be made by retrieving them from a data base.
  • step c3) the set of retrieved features is stored for each point or region on the continuous web in a data base.
  • the time-stamped measured data and the information about the physical place on the continuous web constitute a "feature vector”.
  • the spatial position of the certain sensor or measuring device or a spatial interval between two adjacent sensors and, optionally, the side information may be processed as a unique identifier.
  • the method according to one or more embodiments as set herein above is performed for a second subsequent production step, where a particular physical point or region of points on the continuous web is re-identified by matching a resulting feature vector which exhibits the highest similarity score in their corresponding feature domains.
  • This enables identification and tracking web positions or segments across separated process steps. Improving the accuracy of the position determination or (re-identification of feature patterns) provides a link between different production processes and may be approached via Bayesian methods, such as "Kalman filters" or "Particle Filters”.
  • the invention refers to an apparatus for computer-implemented tracking of production history on a continuous web, where the apparatus is configured to perform the method according to the invention or one or more preferred embodiments of the method according to the invention.
  • the invention refers to a production system comprising an apparatus as set out above.
  • the invention refers to a computer program product with a program code, which is stored on a non-transitory machine-readable carrier, for carrying out the method according to the invention or one or more preferred embodiments thereof when the program code is executed on a computer.
  • web production machines are applied to printing, coating or laminating continuous flat materials such as paper, textiles and plastics. They are used in many product and industry segments such as packaging and foil materials, printing services or adhesive coatings. Web machines combine several processing steps such as cutting, rolling and positioning that often extend over the entire shop floor.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic illustration of a system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the production system 1 consists of a coating machine for coating of a continuous web 5 in form of a continuous electrode material.
  • the continuous web 5 is transported along a given curved path P through the production system 1, thereby being unwinded from an un-winding coil 11 and winded onto a winding coil 23. In-between, the continuous web 5 passes a plurality of sub-systems 10 of the production system 1.
  • each of these sub-systems 10 may comprise a number of cylinders along which the web 5 is guided and redirected.
  • the production system 1 furthermore comprises a number of sensors 31, 32, 33 and measuring devices where only sensor 33 at the end of the given path P is illustrated in Fig. 1 .
  • Sensor 33 located at the end of the path P is an optical and/or infrared camera and placed such that a unique marker 24 is in the field of view of the sensor 33.
  • the marker 24 represents, as will be described below, a first point of origin of a first frame MF.
  • the first frame MP corresponds to a machine coordinate system, where the machine is represented by the production system 1.
  • the sensors 31, 32, 33 and measuring devices are mounted along the path P of the given process of the production system 1.
  • sensors may be optical and/or infrared cameras, and so on.
  • Measuring devices may be adapted to determine a coating layer thickness or a humidity of the coated material in one or more of the dryer units 17, 18, 19.
  • a sensor and/or measuring device may also be adapted to acquire data in the surrounding of the production system 1, such as temperature or humidity.
  • Each of the sensors 31, 32, 33 and the measuring devices is communicatively connected to an apparatus 40 comprising a processor PR.
  • Measured data MD acquired by the sensors 31, 32, 33 and the measuring devices are transferred to the apparatus 40 and stored in a data base 50 which is connected to the apparatus 40.
  • a one-time preparatory step has to be carried out in which information about the spatial positions and other measurement properties for each of the sensors 31, 32, 33 and measuring devices along the given path P is gathered.
  • This preparatory step consists of determining a one-time reference calibration for measuring/determining the spatial positions of the sensors 31, 32, 33 and the measuring devices along the curved path P.
  • spatial markers are attached on the continuous web 5.
  • the spatial markers may be removable or generated by semi-invasive techniques, such as by applying laser-code print marks on the edges on the continuous web 5.
  • the web 5 is moved at the path P during this reference calibration at a given velocity.
  • the velocity does not change during the calibration process.
  • slow velocity i.e., at a velocity which is less than the usual moving velocity of the web 5 during regular operation of the production system 1).
  • a timestamp is acquired.
  • time gaps between two adjacent positions can be transformed into relative spatial distances or absolute coordinates of the first frame MF (machine frame) using the already mentioned pre-defined first point of origin (marker) 24.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates this setup and the definitions in a simplified manner.
  • an unwinded path UP along its length dimension is illustrated.
  • the sub-systems 10 of the production system 1 and the sensors 31, 32, 33 and measuring devices are arranged.
  • Sensor 33 corresponds to the aforementioned sensor at the end of the path P.
  • the fixed marker 24 which is observable in the field of view of sensor 33 constitutes the first point of origin of the first frame MF (machine frame).
  • Each of the sensors and the sub-systems has a respective position P0, P1, P2, where a timestamp is acquired if a respective position of a certain sensor or measuring device is crossed.
  • position P2 is crossed at time T_0.
  • the distance d between positions P1 and P2 is outlined as d(T_1, T_0).
  • the spatial positions are transformed into absolute coordinates p(T_0), p(T_1) with respect to the origin of the marker 24.
  • the projected positions P0, P1, P2 of each sensor 31, 32, 33 and measuring device along the path is then stored in the data base 50.
  • a pre-defined second point of origin 6 of a second web frame WF corresponding to a web coordinate system of the web 5 is obtained by processing measured data MD of a certain sensor 31, 32, 33 or measuring device.
  • a practical choice for designing such origin on the web 5 is the leading edge of the coating area CA, as it is easily recognizable by optical image processing of the measured data MD of the camera (sensor) 33.
  • the second point of origin is a visible characteristic of the web 5.
  • the unwinded web 5 along the unwinded path UP is illustrated at two different times T_0 and T_1 along time-axis t.
  • the coated area is denoted with CA on the web 5.
  • the leading edge of the coating area CA crosses sensor 33 and the marker 24 in the field of view of the sensor 33, respectively.
  • electrode carrier material typically consists of two sides, namely an upper side 5u and a lower side 51. In the coating process of Fig. 1 , for example, the two sides are typically processed subsequently. An additional identifier s is used to distinguish between both sides 5u, 51. Also, for some sensor measurements, like optical images, positions on the web 5 are not solely defined by the coordinate along the direction of movement (x-axis) but also along the orthogonal axis (y-axis).
  • the second frame DF refers to the continuous web fully unwinded along its length direction.
  • Each physical point, PPW can be identified by coordinates along the unwinded, length dimension x and perpendicular to the length dimension x, which runs along a width direction y of the continuous web 5.
  • a coordinate in the second frame WF therefore consists of three values x, y, s as attached to the physical point PPW in Fig. 2 .
  • the origin of the second frame thus has the coordinate (0,0, s).
  • Computer-implemented tracking of the production history of the web 5 is made by performing the following steps at each time point of one or more time points during the operation of the production system.
  • measured data MD of the web 5 are obtained while the web 5 is transported along the path P (see Fig. 1 ).
  • the measured data are current time-stamp measured data MD which are acquired by the sensors 31, 32, 33 and any measuring device installed at or in the vicinity of the production system 1 along the path P.
  • the measurements can comprise complex data structures, such as RGB images or hyperspectral infrared measurements. They also can comprise simple scalar values, such as temperature, humidity readings, or coating layer-thickness, or any combination thereof. It is to be noted that some of the sensors and measurement devices may be arranged in a room where the production system is built. For example, temperature, humidity values can be measured in the surrounding of the production system 1.
  • a movement information MI of the continuous web 5 is obtained (S2 in Fig. 3 ).
  • the movement information MI of the web 5 is continuously measured, e.g., via angular encoders or bar code scanning systems.
  • the movement information is also stored as high-resolution time-series data. This allows to compute the distance travelled by the web 5 along the path P at any moment in time.
  • production-relevant features PRF of the web 5 can be determined (S3 in Fig. 3 ).
  • the determination takes place by processing the acquired time-stamped measured data MD and the movement information MI of the web 5 by mapping the time-stamped measured data MD to physical points or regions of the continuous web. This mapping corresponds to a coordinate transfer between the coordinates of the first frame MF to the coordinates of the second frame WF.
  • a virtual electrode web representation containing production-relevant features PRF of physical points of regions of the continuous web 5 can be achieved.
  • the production-relevant features PRF can be stored in the data base 50.
  • time-series measured data MD acquired beforehand can be queried to obtain the features which are associated to the corresponding sensor 31, 32, 33 or measuring device.
  • the set of retrieved features is stored for each point or region on the continuous web 5 in the data base 50.
  • the data base structure can be either centrally or at a "shop-floor-level”.
  • the spatial position or spatial interval plus (upper/lower) side information can be used as a unique identifier.
  • T 0 is conveniently defined as the moment in time, when the origin 6 of the x-axis in the web frame WF (i.e., the leading edge of the coating area CA) coincides with the origin 24 along the web's path in the machine frame MF (i.e., the position of the marker 24 in the field of view of the sensor 33 at the end of the path P). In this moment all coordinate values of x correspond to the position along the path P.
  • a (re-)identification and tracking of web positions or segments across separate processes can be made as follows. Assuming that a set of features has been correctly mapped to a physical point or point of regions of the web 5 in some production step A) (e.g., coating as described above), that particular segment can be re-identified by applying a similar procedure along a different production step B (e.g., calendaring) and then matching resulting feature vectors. In particular, given the spatial position and corresponding feature vector from the representation of step B, it can be searched for the spatial position during step A which exhibits the highest similarity in the corresponding feature domains.
  • Such a solution can be used as a refinement or fine-calibration of physical positions across distinct processes where other solutions (e.g., laser markers as defined position) would only provide a coarse spatial resolution.
  • Laser markers can simplify the search complexity in the features space by providing reasonable position interval limits, however.

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