How to Choose a Sorting Machine for 21700 Battery Production Lines?

When purchasing a 21700 battery production line, one of the most important decisions you will have to make is what sorting machine to buy. As one of the key parts of lithium-ion battery production, sorting is necessary to ensure each machine meets specifications in terms of quality, capacity, and performance. With so many in existence to choose from, how do you go about it? This process should make choosing a sorting machine for your own 21700 battery production line a straightforward task:
1. Know your production
It will be important, before you go about the actual selection, to know how each production line that you will implement will need to run. This will include things such as the batteries you are making, the volume you are building them at, and the accuracy that you are looking for. A 21700 battery, being one of the most frequently used lithium-ion batteries in modern applications, necessarily has to have a sorting system capable of great ‘quantity and accuracy’, so take the following into account:
Battery type- Make sure your sorting machine is capable for device type and form factor, and remember that any machine is going to need a use case. Yours will be 21700 cells, here.
Sorting speed- You may wish for your sorting machine to be high-speed, sorting hundreds, or even thousands, of batteries, per hour. How fast do you need it? Depending on the scale of your production, if you will be producing a hugely vast amount of product, completely unworthy of any specification of final device, this will be another key consideration.
Precision- As with any structure, you don’t want a cell that fails to meet specification in your final device, so it needs to be carried out quickly and precisely, and only batteries capable of meeting your specification will remain on the processing conveyor, obviously.Choose Between Manual and Automatic Sorting Machines
As noted, sorting machines for 21700 battery cells come in manual and automatic varieties. Consider your current production capacity and available budget when deciding.
Manual Sorting Machines: These are usually less expensive and better suited to smaller productions lines or applications with less strenuous demands. They may require more hands-on work by employees but may be a viable choice for operations with lower production volumes.
Automatic Sorting Machines: These machines are the best choice for large production lines. They are faster, allow for more accuracy and less human labor, and features like sorting by automatically sorting by battery capacity, voltage, or internal resistance can be huge time savers.
Consider the Sorting Method
Manufacturers use various methods to sort batteries by different criteria in battery sorting machines. Here are some of the most common.
Capacity Sorting: Batteries are sorted by how much juice they’re packed with. Keeping cells with similar storage together is useful for many applications, especially electric vehicles where batteries are expected to perform as advertised.
Internal Resistance Sorting: Separating batteries by internal resistance can help to make sure they’re more similar and to have longer life and improved performance overall.
Visual Sorting: Some sorting machines have cameras and sensors that can visually inspect batteries to sort out those that show physical defects like scratches, dents or other surface issues.This is a bonus as far as aesthetics are concerned which you may not equally need, especially if you’re working with such classy products you don’t want anyone knowing about and exposing, so go for it.
Evaluate Additional Features
Size and shape apart, some machines improve your experience skating along through the day and if you’re lucky, in no small measure cutting down on your repairs and maintenance. Here are some features to look for:
Integration with Other Equipment: There are machines that don’t isolate. Find one that tucks in neatly among similar machines on your production line like battery feeders, testers, or conveyors.
Energy Efficiency: Machines of this sort designed to be energy efficient are available for you as well.
Ease of Maintenance: Hefty machines with lots of nooks and crannies for dust bunnies to settle in is not what you need. Find one that is easy to clean and maintain to make your downtimes as short as possible.
Look for Customization Options
Through measuring and adjusting and even trial, you may discover your own part pile needs some kind of unique touch. It is a plus if your pot sorting machine is amenable to some form of customization. Many suppliers offer machines with adjustable sorting parameters, sorting channels and programmable machine settings to customize machine performance to suit your needs as you string a few new production demands of your own.
Assess Cost-Effectiveness
Don’t get bargain happy. The price of a sorting machine shouldn’t be your only ace in determining which to part with your cash in exchange. You’ll want to consider other things as well, but we suggest you forget the initial price tag and concern yourself what you should really be concerned at: long-term durability, energy consumption, cost of maintenance. More often than not, of the.
Conclusion
Choosing just the right sorting machine for your 21700 battery production line is a make or break issue, the quality and efficiency of your ultimate product literally hangs in the balance. With your brief education, we hope you can make some wise choices that will help you to produce a product of the highest order.