March 2025 - Article

March 17, 2025

The success of a company rests on products that are ahead of time. As batteries are the weakest link in a chain, opportunities arise in servicing them with Diagnostic Battery Management. Bringing these products to market requires strong Visionary, Design, and Sales disciplines that we promote.

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Each step needs dedicated professionals with focus on Sales

Adding Vision into a product lowers the cost of Battery Inventory by fully utilizing each battery with a call to replace before failure. Minimum Operational Reserve Energy (MORE) assures reliability; a feature that is set by the Target Selector based on leftover charge that should be 10-20% at the end of the day.

Design selects features to meet cost targets by obtaining maximum flexibility. Cadex chargers and battery analyzers work in a standalone mode with option to connect to a PC and the Internet to get a full overview of a battery inventory. Custom battery adapters for chargers and battery analyzers enable field exchange when new batteries are added to prevent obsolescence.

Of special interest is the Spectro Modular with EIS Direct Drive to test large batteries non-invasively. Spectro™ departs from traditional load method by creating a Nyquist plot that models battery data against a chosen matrix to read capacity and other characteristics. Matrices are stored in the Matrix Library for downloading by Cloud Analytics. This enables servicing virtually any battery, a technology that will change the way batteries are tested in the future.

Strengthening Sales requires the assistance of the Sales Action Plan (SAP). Design criteria rest on revenue projections, development costs and urgency. With a large choice of products as outlined in the SAP Form, design details must be summarized on the SAP document and presented to the think-tank for approval. As the development starts, the SAP paper becomes your travel companion that is presented at the Quarterlies to present progress and challenges encountered. On completion, SAP will include a post-mortem; unfinished project must accompany notes to enable continuation as needed.

The Sales Action Plans explores markets by servicing batteries with Diagnostic Battery Management. Custom matrices advance Spectro™ beyond testing starter batteries for Consumer Auto to include Heavy Duty, Deep Cycle and Stationary batteries. We further commercialize the Spectro Explorer by examining Nyquist plots to provide quality control in battery manufacturing, as well as assuring field use by detecting anomalies. The Spectro Explorer also tests e-bike batteries to confirm performance and safety. Co-work begins by embedding Spectro algorithms into modern BMS in assessing capacity and maintaining safety of Li-ion battery systems.

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