
Northvolt plans to use the Cloud Factory Module design as a digital blueprint for future factories. According to the company, key design requirements are redundancy, reliability, security, and scalability.
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In addition, it makes software updates performed during factory operations undetectable by engineers and technicians. The Cloud Factory Module design allows quality engineers to flag nonconformities in battery cells around the clock. The global and shared accounts include infrastructure for observability, shared Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)-a fully managed container registry-and global front-end apps that are needed to run our factories. The networking layer that will host the transit gateways, firewalls, Direct Connect, and other infrastructure lives in its own network account.

Critical infrastructure not tied to a single factory is managed globally. Any factory software components not specific to a single building are deployed into a core account. Software can be released into different parts of the factory using blue/green (staging/live) and canary (incremental) deployment strategies.Įach factory maintains its own data account where raw data are transformed and prepared for reporting, analytics, research, and ML applications. According to the company, the model improves the security posture, which helps to ensure business continuity if a faulty change is implemented. The design makes it easy to start up a new factory environment or extend an existing factory with new buildings. Each module represents one building at a connected factory site, represented by a single AWS account. Northvolt uses a “Cloud Factory Module” design, a modular cloud-based architecture.

The company employs a “cloud-first” strategy of connected factories that share information in applications, such as detailed product traceability, near-real-time monitoring of manufacturing line effectiveness, computer vision powered defect detection, and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) modeling to predict quality and performance of the produced battery cells. Product and Service Lifecycle Managementįounded in 2016, Swedish battery-maker Northvolt’s manufacturing facilities have the goal of producing “green” batteries – power cells made mostly from recycled batteries.
