A lithium battery material manufacturer located in Siping, Jilin, has long relied on manual operations for its lithium battery raw material feeding and transportation process. To enhance production line automation and support the stability of raw material quality, the company introduced Head Powder's fully automatic feeding and conveying system, achieving sealed and intelligent conveying from raw material silos to production equipment, significantly improving the working environment and production efficiency.

Customer pain points

The company faces multiple challenges in the processing of lithium battery raw materials:
(1) Manual feeding is labor-intensive, with a long time per feeding session and frequent feed volume deviations, affecting batch consistency;
(2) Severe dust from raw materials not only causes material loss and workshop pollution but also poses health risks to workers;
(3) Traditional conveying methods are difficult to adapt to various powder characteristics (such as poor flowability and easy moisture absorption), leading to pipeline blockages or measurement errors;
(4) Production line data cannot be traced in real time, production management relies on experience, and it is difficult to meet the needs of refined management.

Solutions and product advantages

To address these pain points, Head Powder has customized a fully automatic feeding and conveying system for this project, offering the following advantages:
(1) Sealed pipeline transportation: Uses negative pressure or positive pressure dense phase conveying technology, ensuring sealed material operation throughout the process, zero dust leakage, and meeting factory environment standards;
(2) High-precision metering: Integrates high-precision weighing sensors and flow control valves, keeping feeding errors within industry standards, helping to ensure formula consistency;
(3) Multi-material adaptability: Optimizes transport gas velocity and pipeline structure for lithium battery raw materials with different particle sizes, humidity, and adhesive properties to reduce blockages and residues;
(4) Intelligent control system: PLC + touchscreen human-machine interface, supporting recipe management, automatic start/stop, fault alarms, and production data report generation, facilitating traceability and optimization.

After the system was put into operation, the company's manual feeding positions decreased by 60%, raw material loss dropped by about 15%, and the batch pass rate in production rose to over 99%, significantly lowering overall operating costs.