ABTC Lithium Ion Battery Recycling Automation

May 11

After a number of successful projects with former employers of American Battery Technology Company Engineers, Corso Systems was pleased to partner with the ABTC team to help get their initial pilot production plant automation off the ground and support rolling out to their first facility!

Process

ABTC is an advanced technology, first-mover lithium-ion battery recycling and primary battery metal extraction company that utilizes internally developed proprietary technologies to produce domestically-sourced battery grade critical and strategic metals at substantially lower cost and lower environmental impact than current conventionally sourced battery metals.

ABTC utilized Opto 22 groov EPIC PLCs and the Ignition SCADA platform from Inductive Automation as the foundation of their automation needs.

Corso Systems was brought in to help develop Ignition graphical templates and User Defined Types (UDTs) to help streamline the process of standing up their automation systems.

Solution

Corso Systems had an already developed rapport with critical members of the ABTC Engineering team. This allowed both the ABTC and Corso Systems team to quickly understand ABTC’s requirements for templates and UDTs in Ignition layering on top of the work they were doing on the Opto 22 side of things.

This foundation tied directly into our overall process of working with customers, and was an excellent example of our DRIVE Framework in action. We already collectively spoke the same language, and had examples of working together on prior projects we could refer to helping speed up the process from kick off to testing.

Corso Systems understood ABTC’s goal of reducing the overall environmental impact of the lithium ion battery lifecycle, and combined with ABTC’s understanding of their process requirements and equipment we took a lot of the development load off their shoulders building out their SCADA system.

Result

Working with Corso Systems, ABTC was able to more than double the speed of their development efforts, beating their original timeline to begin initial process testing by more than 2 weeks.