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__________________________________________________________________________________________ Battery production
production at scale . This long time to scale up production is a big challenge in this rapidly changing battery market . The goal of virtual development of manufacturing is to accelerate the design , construction , and layout of your plant with connected , multi-disciplinary engineering . From there businesses can create a reliable virtual version of their processes , lines , and plants to commission production processes iteratively without the cost and risk of doing so in the real world . Additionally , leveraging simulations , cell engineering and optimization can be accelerated tremendously . With Siemens simulations , engineers can accurately evaluate impact of various chemistries on cell performance , cell safety and aging as well as can optimize cell design to maximize energy density and fast charging . They can virtually validate cell designs and behaviors against pack requirements and end system requirements leveraging Siemens digital twins . This unshackles companies from a costly and time-consuming testing only approach . We are seeing two-to-three times acceleration in battery design and engineering , as companies are adopting our digital twin framework . With a robust PLM backbone , the digital twins of product , production and factory remain connected , thus allowing companies to account for interdependencies and effects of change
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