Before the Battery Boom
Korean battery cell manufacturer LG Energy Solution is gearing up for the growing demand for electric vehicles. Porsche Consulting is assisting in the process.
Challenge
The Plant and the Task: Simply Gigantic
In Poland, the Korean company LG Energy Solution has built the largest European production facility for lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. The plant is simply gigantic – four times larger than Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in the US. But when there are more than 50 production lines for battery cells and complete batteries for European vehicle manufacturers being built, gigantic amounts of homework also pile up. Once the expected battery boom is in full swing, the processes have to run like clockwork. And at the same time be variable to absorb rapidly changing conditions. Porsche Consulting knows how it’s done.
Implementation
Optimal Use of Capacity
When battery production shifts into high gear, the quality of the output must not be compromised. That’s why Porsche Consulting developed an optimized maintenance system for LG Energy Solution that harmonizes organization, planning, operational measures and spare parts management. An in-depth analysis showed that this concept to make better use of the machines would not require adding more capacity.
increase in production thanks to the optimized maintenance concept from Porsche Consulting
Result
Made-to-Measure Maintenance
The consultants’ customized concept for optimizing the maintenance of the production lines was a success; the improvement measures took hold. “With Porsche Consulting’s maintenance concept, we were able to increase production by 14 percent,” says Kyong Deuk Jeong, President of LG Chem Wrocław Energy.
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