Podium Advanced Technologies receives the "Industria Felix Award”

31 May 2021

Pont-Saint-Martin, 31 May 2021 – At the 3th edition of the “Industria Felix Award – Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta che competono 2021”, Podium Advanced Technologies has received the Budgetary Performance High Honor award.
 
The motivation of the prize states that Podium is “the best small company and among the best companies led by under 40 entrepreneurs” and has “an international vocation, a growth of workforce and net worth with an excellent business performance and Cerved financial reliability rating for companies with registered offices in Aosta Valley.”

Since the start of its operations in 2011, Podium Advanced Technologies has been continuously expanding, as the numerous recognitions from Il Sole 24 Ore, the most authoritative Italian economic newspaper, and the Financial Times can testify: in March 2021 the latter picked Podium Advanced Technologies for the fourth year in a row among Europe’s 1,000 fastest growing companies.

The “Industria Felix Award” clearly shows that this extraordinary growth is a matter of quality before quantity, due to an outstanding business performance and a strong financial reliability. “Podium’s growth results from continuous investments in our people and from strong and long-lasting relationship with our customers, key suppliers and partners that enable us delivering successfully results in all our projects and ventures”, Podium CEO Francesco Monti says.

Organized by Industria Felix Magazine, a quarterly magazine on economics and finance and supplement of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, the “Industria Felix Award” has been developed on the basis of a mass survey on the 2019 financial reports of more than 50,000 companies and carried out in cooperation with Cerved Group Study Office, the most important rating agency in Italy and one of the largest in Europe, specialized in evaluating companies’ economic and financial performances.

The awarded companies, selected through an indisputable algorithm and chosen by a qualified Scientific Committee, are identified on the basis of the best management performance and financial trustworthiness determined by the Cerved Group Score Impact.

More information on the “Industria Felix Award” here.

Assembly process

Sorting, Testing and Stacking Cylindrical
- Fully automated station
- 100% cells state of health testing (including open circuit voltage, resistance/AC impedance, temperature
- Stations able to handle module up to 1200 mm length
- Different cooling strategies can be handled within this station
- Similar capacity cells can be sorted and included in a module
- Fast and tack-free led lamp curing
- Accurate pressing operation
Sorting, Testing and Stacking Cylindrical
Sorting, Testing and Stacking Prismatic and Pouch
- Fully automated station
- 100% cells state of health testing (including open circuit voltage, resistance/AC impedance, temperature
- Stations can handle different cell dimensions and different thermal extraction strategies
- Accurate pressing operation
Sorting, Testing and Stacking Prismatic and Pouch
Bus Bar Laser Welding
- Cutting edge laser beam technology that guarantees robust joints for several type of busbar connections
- Possibility to weld challenging reflective materials such as CU, Al and dissimiral combination of materials
- Internal development of welding parameters
- Extensive quality control such as weld penetration in process monitoring and resistivity checks
- Stations can handle module up to 1200 mm length and 600 mm width
Bus Bar Laser Welding
Ultrasonic wire bonding
- Fully automatic station
- Wire bonding with the highest axis accuracy
- Continuous real time monitoring of wire condition and process
- Integrated quality control
Ultrasonic wire bonding
Pack assembly stations
- Stations equipped with manual assistors and process dedicated tools to allow assembly teams to work in perfect ergonomic and safe conditions
- Stations equipped with torque monitored tools
- Control tracking system to verify process completion and quality monitoring
- Junction box assembly and quality control
- Controlled sealing application completed after functional test
Pack assembly stations
EOL Testing
- Battery module and pack functional tests
- BMS firmware and software flashing
- Pack cooling system integrity test
EOL Testing

Main features

  • Safety: BMS Design compliant for ISO 26262
  • Scalable slave-master architecture, handles systems
    up to 1.000 V
  • Cell dissipative balancing

Functionalities

  • Real time monitoring cells & components voltage
    and temperatures
  • Advanced algorithms for SOC/SOH estimation
  • Advanced SOP estimation with realtime cell
    thermoelectrical models
  • Electromechanical components feedback monitoring
    and degradation estimation (fuses, contactors)
  • Control and monitoring of the thermal management system
  • Sensing of current, water leak, internal humidity, etc
  • Ground fault monitoring of grounded or ungrounded systems

Services related to BMS

  • Testing and modelling of battery cells
    and systems
  • Experimental characterization of cells
    for accurate state estimation algorithms
    (e.g., SOC, SOE, SOH, SOP)
  • BMS hardware and software development
    for specific applications
  • Prototyping of high-performance
    battery systems
  • Consulting in the field of battery systems

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