EP1150A PathWave Lab Operations for Battery Test

Accelerate and Optimize Your Battery Test Lab Operations

Keysight’s PathWave Lab Operations for Battery Test enables efficient planning and coordination of your entire battery test laboratory. It manages all resources, including test facilities, test systems, and your test objects or devices under test (DUTs). PathWave Lab Operations for Battery Test provides an integrated, web-based lab management platform that helps you modernize your test workflows, eliminating legacy paper-based processes, and increasing data integrity and traceability.

This powerful set of tools helps you to improve test throughput for all the cells and batteries you need to test, to fulfill the testing requirements for your projects on-schedule, and to optimize test asset utilization.

Key features

• Easily register and track test objects in your lab.

• Quickly analyze your data and statistics.

• Organize your test lab workflow, documents, lab orders, and tasks. Orders allow you to structure tasks. Tasks tell lab personnel what to do.

• Plan and optimize your test capacities and sequences.

• Share and control test plans, results, data, and other documents. Collaboration and discussion among lab staff become easy and productive.

• Remotely control your lab and its devices anywhere, anytime.

• Manage and route notifications to your preferred device or email service.

• Work efficiently thanks to a comprehensive suite of tools.

• Automated, networked, and scalable for any size of testing lab – up to thousands of channels.

Meeting the Challenges in Li-Ion Cell and Battery Test

We are experiencing huge growth in the production and consumption of Li-Ion cells and batteries, driven by rapid growth in e-Mobility and portable, battery-powered devices.

• Hundreds to thousands of these cells go into an EV battery. And EV demand is growing at double[1]digit rates.

• EVs are expected to be about 30% of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 and almost 60% by 2040.

• There will be about 500 million passenger EVs on the road by 2040, out of a total fleet of 1.6B.

• Demand for two- and three-wheeled EVs, e-buses, and commercial/delivery EVs is growing faster than that for conventional passenger EVs.

This creates a situation where understanding and verifying the performance of cells and batteries becomes critical to their designers and manufacturers. And it’s just as critical to their users and consumers, such as vehicle OEMs and tier-1/2 suppliers. The EV powertrain becomes the key technology and the key differentiator for vehicles. This is driving a rapid increase in investments in the testing and development of new cells and batteries, as they’ve become the critical element in both performance and cost differentiation.

This rapidly growing amount of required test capacity is creating pressure to optimize the utilization of those test assets – both financial pressure, and pressure to support the volume of test demand. For both designers and manufacturers as well as for users of these cells and batteries, performance testing is in the critical path of successfully competing by quickly getting new designs of cells, batteries, and EVs to a rapidly growing market.

In this time-to-market race, designers, manufacturers, and users of these cells and batteries realize they don’t have the time or resources to develop and manage this test capacity themselves. They need to obtain this capability from a reliable source and get it online quickly. In the same way, they also realize that they don’t have the time and resources to develop the software to manage their multiple test resources to meet their objectives for test throughput, asset utilization, project schedules, and performance optimization – whether it be for a small number of test systems or for multiple test systems distributed across several test laboratories around the world.

As the number of test systems or testing assets in your facility increases to meet this testing demand, it becomes more and more important that your software resources support your need to maintain and improve productivity in your testing function. If you only have a very small number of test systems, you may be able to manage and coordinate those test systems with rudimentary tools like a spreadsheet. But as your testing volume grows and your test lab expands, those tools cannot meet your needs to productively manage workflows and to efficiently coordinate testing assets. You will need software tools designed specifically to optimize your test lab operations.

Keysight’s PathWave Lab Operations for Battery Test equips you to efficiently manage people, hardware, and information in your battery test laboratory.