Industrial robots
Robots for battery assembly at Scania
ABB has signed a contract with Scania to supply comprehensive robotics solutions for Scania's new, highly automated battery assembly plant in Sweden. The new plant is a milestone on the road to electrification of heavy commercial vehicles.
Scania will invest more than one billion Swedish kronor (108 million US dollars) over several years in the new facility, which is scheduled to start operations in 2023.
It is being built next to Scania's chassis assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden, and will be highly automated from delivery through production to delivery. In future, battery modules will be produced at this site using cells from the battery manufacturer Northvolt in Skellefteå. The finished packs will then be delivered directly to the vehicle assembly line. A large number of ABB robots will be involved in the assembly process, including the IRB 390, IRB 4600 and IRB 6700 models, and other ABB solutions will support the production process.
The IRB 390 is being used in a battery plant for the first time. This ABB robot, originally developed for the packaging industry, combines speed with power and can assemble contact plates in batteries around the clock - at a speed of one plate per second. The entire production system is checked before commissioning using the ABB RobotStudio simulation and programming software. This significantly reduces commissioning times and improves the quality process.
Scania and ABB have been partners for over four decades and are working together to build a production infrastructure for electric vehicles. Recently, the two companies have jointly developed charging solutions for heavy commercial vehicles, which will also be powered by Northvolt batteries. The Northvolt plant - the largest lithium-ion battery factory in Europe - was also developed together with ABB.
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