FREYR to scale battery cell production with Siemens Xcelerator
Siemens and FREYR Battery to cooperate on large-scale and sustainable battery production as part of Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform.
- FREYR will use the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, including Siemens Industrial Operations X software and hardware to design and operate the planned gigafactories in Norway and the U.S.
- Siemens, NVIDIA, and AWS create immersive industrial metaverse experience of FREYR gigafactory by combining real and digital worlds
Siemens and FREYR announced a strategic partnership today at Hannover Messe. Siemens will become FREYR’s preferred supplier in automation and digitalization technology, enabling FREYR to scale-up production, and maximize its plant and energy efficiency.
Scaling battery production with Siemens technology
FREYR plans to equip its planned gigafactories in Norway and the U.S. with Siemens’ best-in-class Industrial Operations X portfolio. Industrial Operations X is setting a new benchmark with a broad range of products and services for industrial operations that empower operational technology (OT) with integrated information technology (IT).
Siemens and FREYR will join forces along the entire battery design and manufacturing process, from production design, planning and simulation; product design and simulation to the automation of the entire production process. Siemens will provide a broad range of solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), industrial Edge computing, and tools for IT/OT connectivity.
By leveraging Industrial Operations X, FREYR will be able to better connect design and manufacturing to scale-up production. It will speed up FREYR’s progress towards its planned gigafactories, increasing the availability of high-performing and affordable EV battery solutions as well as energy storage systems, and thus accelerating the transformation of the automotive industry and electricity grids.
Siemens strengthens its technological leadership in fast-growing battery market
With this strategic agreement, Siemens is expanding its footprint in the battery manufacturing industry. The company has recently signed several partnerships with leading companies, demonstrating its deep domain know-how in this dynamic and fast-growing market.
As part of their strategic partnership, Siemens and NVIDIA have developed a showcase for Hannover Messe highlighting the transformative potential of the industrial metaverse. A cloud based digital twin of the next-generation FREYR factories, created using AWS IoT TwinMaker and demonstrated in a custom Siemens application built on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, the exhibit illustrates how companies like FREYR can make better and faster engineering decisions by visually interacting with, experiencing and utilizing the comprehensive digital twin across the product, production and service lifecycles in a high-fidelity, immersive environment.
The model integrates operational data from the factory, 3D definitions of the building, plant, machinery, and equipment, human ergonomics and safety information, detailed production processes, robots and automatic guided vehicles, and simulations of products and production. The exhibit highlights the possible integrations between the Siemens Xcelerator and NVIDIA Omniverse platforms.
“Working together, Siemens and AWS are making it easier for industrial customers to use Siemens Xcelerator and AWS’s industry‐leading cloud services like AWS IoT TwinMaker to deliver new manufacturing insights, automation, and connected services. As we identify new ways to leverage the cloud and virtualization technology to solve real-world problems like EV battery production, working with leaders like Siemens will help companies of any size turn industrial complexity into a competitive advantage,” said Bill Vass, Vice President of Engineering at AWS.
Siemens and FREYR to explore financing options and commercial value streams
FREYR is currently in progress raising project finance for Giga Arctic and raising equity for Giga America. Beyond the traditional customer-supplier relationship, the agreement between FREYR and Siemens will also include discussions about possible financing options via Siemens Financial Services, as well as a potential battery cell offtake agreement.
Earlier this year, Siemens and FREYR announced their intention to join forces with Caterpillar, Glencore and Nidec to form a strategic coalition to promote the scale up of sustainable battery solutions across Europe, North America and beyond. With the strategic partnership announced today, Siemens and FREYR will make more strides in optimizing the entire value chain of battery manufacturing.
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