INNOVATION

From its creation in 1977, Mondragon Assembly has been committed to innovation as a means of achieving growth, dedicating large part of its resources to promoting new product research and development, and extending its comprehensive service offering. Additionally, the group has had its own technology centre since 2002, aimed at developing and capturing technologies over the medium and long term.

Its main areas of research include:

SOLAR

  • New photovoltaic module production technologies: Back Contact interconnection, Lead Free soldering, Conductive adhesives for Heterojunction and flexible cells, Multiwire interconnection
  • New processes: Automatic cell breakage detection via EL, lamination alternative to EVA.
  • Production yield optimisation: Production control software, production tracking systems, total production flexibility (seamless model changing).

AUTOMATION 

  • New automation technologies: Industry 4.0: Self-learning and self-aware machines, collaborative robots that share the workplace with operators.
  • New assembly processes: Laser technology, joining of dissimilar materials.

E-MOBILITY & ENERGY STORAGE

  • Development of a lithium-ion module assembly line with cylindrical, prismatic and pouch cells.
  • Development of fuel cells assembly lines.

Mondragon Assembly has become a European benchmark for automation and assembly technologies, participating in numerous innovation projects.

STRATEGICS HAZITEKS

IBCELLS

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. is participating in the project entitled “DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES BASED ON BACK CONTACT CELLS”, which has been co-financed with FEDER funds and subsidized by the Basque Government.
The IBCELLS project is an initiative whose main objective is to develop interconnection technologies for back contact photovoltaic cells. This technology is developed with the aim of increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic panels based on conventional technologies. The development of the technology and the implementation in pilots will allow to validate the results in real conditions.

AIXIA

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. participates in the project entitled “Sustainable Cognitive Space in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum”, which has been co-financed with FEDER funds and subsidized by the Basque Government.

The AIXIA project is an initiative whose main objective is to provide a reliable cognitive space based on a sustainable, adaptive and technology stack agnostic infrastructure, enabling companies to offer new concepts of federated services based on knowledge sharing, through AI servitization, for the monetization of their data and knowledge in new long-term business models in a cross-sector environment.

ADIERA

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. takes part in the “Intelligent Digital Assets in Industrial Environments” project, which has been co-financed with ERDF funds and subsidised by the Basque Government.

The ADIERA project is an initiative with the main objective of generating and “productivising” industrial knowledge, equipping industrial solutions and services with smart and autonomous digital assets to further advance the digital transformation in industry.
This industrial research project proposes a leap forward, starting from the concept of a digital platform explored in previous projects, with an innovative proposal based on the transversal application of Artificial Intelligence to all digital assets or segments of the digital value network.

AUTOMATIA

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. takes part in the “Artificial Intelligence Solutions for the Automation and Control of Production Systems and Processes” project, which has been co-financed with ERDF funds and subsidised by the Basque Government.

The AUTOMATIA project is an initiative with the main objective of developing new advanced control and automation algorithms based on artificial intelligence for drives, machines and manufacturing processes.
The aim is to introduce the new paradigm of Artificial Intelligence into the field of process control and automation in both process and manufacturing industries, in order to provide companies in the industrial sector with new technology and new capabilities.

TALENTIX

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. participates in the project entitled “Integral solution of predictive analytics and AI for strategic planning and future projection of Human Capital in the company”, which has been co-financed with FEDER funds and subsidized by the Basque Government.

TALENTIX aims to build an innovative technological solution based on Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, for the digital transformation of the strategic planning of human capital in companies, through the automation of their processes, the in-depth analysis of their current talent needs and the prediction of their future needs.

EGOKIA

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. participates in the project entitled “Digital space for industrial knowledge sharing based on Artificial Intelligence”, which has been co-financed with FEDER funds and subsidized by the Basque Government.

The EGOKIA project is an initiative whose main objective is the development of new digital spaces for data sharing and the creation of new services based on such data. The aim is to develop platforms that enable the secure exchange of data, including aspects of data sovereignty, and that allow new businesses associated with them between agents in the value chain.

SABRE

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY S.COOP. is participating in the project entitled “SCALABLE BATTERY FOR ELECTRIC HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES”, which has been co-financed with FEDER funds and subsidized by the Basque Government.

The SABRE project is an initiative whose main objective is to develop manufacturing technologies for lithium batteries for buses and trucks. This technology is developed with the aim of increasing the gravimetric and volumetric energy density of current battery packs, as well as optimizing production costs. The development of the technology and the implementation in pilots will allow to validate the results in real conditions.

EUROPEAN

GOPV

The GOPV project aims to reduce the cost of photovoltaic energy generation in European plants by 50%. To this end, Mondragon Assembly is contributing to the project with the development of machinery capable of assembling high-power photovoltaic modules automatically. These modules use HJT technology cells and the connection is made using electrically conductive adhesives.

www.gopvproject.eu

ZDMP

ZDMP is a Horizon 2020 Project for innovation in the EU aimed at developing solutions that allow zero-defect manufacturing by means of the use of cloud-based IT platforms that provide specific services.

To do so, an open-source platform will be developed, as well as the development environment, the marketplace and the apps to allow industries to access the tools that allow the zero-defect paradigm to be achieved.

www.zdmp.eu

FLOIM

FLOIM is a Horizon 2020 Project for innovation in the EU aimed at developing solutions that allow the manufacture of optoelectronics by means of plastic injection processes.

These components are currently manufactured by means of processes that are far more expensive, and the development of injection processes that achieve the requirements of the optoelectronic market will enable an extraordinary reduction in the cost of these components.

www.floimproject.eu

PICKPLACE

PICKPLACE is an EU 2020 Horizon 2020 innovation project aimed at developing solutions that combine the capabilities of robots and people in a safe, flexible and reliable environment.  The collaboration is planned in an intralogistics environment for which new solutions will be developed: dynamic packaging planning, flexible capture strategies, and a multifunction clamp. These advances will be combined with a perception system and action strategies to create a safe environment for collaboration between the person and the robot.

pick-place.eu/

LAY2FORM

LAY2FORM is an EU Horizon 2020 research and development project aiming at the manufacturing of 3D pieces lightened by means of the hybridisation of metals with composite materials of the thermoplastic matrix. The manufacturing platform will respond to a flexible line concept with cognitive automation, monitoring, and online inspection. In addition, the process will be modelled to provide real-time optimisation  of the products that are manufactured in the line.

lay2form-project.eu

SMART-PDM

Manufacturing is undergoing immense yet gradual Industry 4.0 transformation with the help of advancements including predictive maintenance. SMART-PDM’s objective is to acquire manufacturing data to provide diagnosis and prognosis information while rendering the underlying technology financially feasible. This will result in lower costs of maintenance, waste and parts as well as improvements in quality and throughput. The technological advancements validated by the demonstrators will help enhance the know-how, technologies, solution offerings and toolsets of the partners.

itea3.org/project/smart-pdm.html

PRODUCTIVE 4.0

Productive 4.0, an Europen project where Mondragon Assembly participate, is a project to improve the digitalization of the European industry by electronics and ICT. Almost half of the budget is funded, partly by the EU, partly by ECSEL Joint Undertaking and the national authorities of involved countries. There are involved 109 partners and 19 countries

The aim is to create a user platform across value chains and industries, thus promoting the digital networking of manufacturing companies, production machines and products.

The participating partners will examine methods, concepts and technologies for service-oriented architecture as well as for components and infrastructure in the Internet of Things. Other aspects are standardization and process virtualization, in other words, simulating manufacturing processes to optimize real workflows. The platform can be used in the three interlocked process pillars for managing the supply chains, the product life cycle and digital production.

productive40.eu

HIPERION

The core of the HIPERION project is a disruptive solar photovoltaic (PV) module technology, based on planar optical micro-tracking, which concentrates sunlight on multi-junction solar cells on top of a conventional silicon backplane, integrated within a static frame.

This innovative module architecture achieves more than 30% efficiency under direct sunlight, while still harvesting diffuse sunlight with its underlying PV backplane.

Compatible with any type of installation from rooftop to ground-mounted trackers, the solution produces up to 50% more energy than conventional c-Si modules with the same form-factor.

hiperion-project.eu

BIPVBoost

BIPV refers to building elements that, together with their role as building cladding, produce renewable solar energy thanks to PV integration.

The overall ambition of the BIPVBOOST project focuses on bringing down the cost of multifunctional building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems, limiting the overcost compared to traditional, non-PV, construction solutions and non-integrated PV modules.

This will be done through an effective implementation of short and medium-term cost reduction roadmaps addressing the whole BIPV value chain and demonstration of the contribution of the technology towards mass realization of nearly Zero Energy Buildings.

bipvboost.eu

NATIONAL

INPROBAT

The INPROBAT project “INvestigation of new production PROcesses to reduce the cost of BATteries and their environmental impact” aims to advance knowledge in order to eliminate the main barriers that these systems currently present and favour the integration of electric vehicles into society.

Granted by the CDTI   

INBAT

INBAT project (Investigación conceptual de un Sistema de Baterías Cell to Pack con celdas pouch ligeras, seguras y competitivas y validación a escala de laboratorio.) aims to develop new cell to pack battery pack concept for electric vehicles, concretely “Vans” segment. Mondragon Assembly will develop an industrial assembly process for the developed battery pack.

SUNRISEPV

SUNRISE PV project (Nueva generación de tecnologías fotovoltaicas para reducción del coste energético mediante estrategias de circularidad) is focused on the development of advanced PV technology. Mondragon assembly will develop new cell interconnection processes for future cell technologies (tandem cells, back contact cells, shingled cells…etc).

https://magtel.es/magtel-proyecto-sunrise-pv

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