280 / 314 Ah prismatic
71.3 × 174 × 207 mm
3.2 V nominal LFP
1.005kWh per cell at 314 Ah
Storage pack plants
Energy Storage Battery Pack Line: Blueprint, Envelope and Output
Finished cells in, closed and tested packs out. Every rate on this energy storage battery pack line is measured against one published blueprint — a 314 Ah prismatic cell, a 1P13S module, a 1P52S pack — stated below in millimetres, kilograms and kilowatt-hours.
Layer 01 · Cell
280 / 314 Ah prismatic
71.3 × 174 × 207 mm
1.005kWh
Layer 02 · Module
1P13S module
978.4 × 178.9 × 205 mm · ≤100 kg
13.1kWh
Layer 03 · Pack
1P52S pack, closed and tested
1152 × 810 × 243 mm · ≤400 kg
52.3kWh
Thirteen cells in series make the module; four modules fill the enclosure. Every station is dimensioned against one of these three rows.
Where the line starts and stops
Energy Storage Battery Pack Line Scope
Turnkey module and pack assembly for commercial, grid-scale and residential storage.
Cells in, tested packs outContainer, PCS and site integration belong downstream.
Built on this line
- Cells off their trays, scanned and graded to a window you sign
- Modules stacked, servo pressed, banded and addressed
- Busbar laser welding, post-weld inspection, module EOL testing
- Enclosure and plate cleaning, leak testing, floor gluing
- Insertion and fixing, copper bar, BMS, MSD, harness work
- Lid fitting and tightening, whole-pack and pack EOL tests
Left to others
- Cell manufacturing: coating, winding, electrolyte filling
- Formation and grading upstream of the pallet
- Containerised assembly, central PCS, site integration
- Cell supply — acceptance runs on cells you buy
- 17Module stations
- 15Pack stations
- 3Takt tiers, 4 to 15 PPM
- ≥99%Equipment-caused yield at site acceptance
- 40+Line segments delivered, into 12 countries
Who writes
Three Things Arrive With Every Enquiry
The project or process engineer at a storage pack plant writes first, and the message nearly always carries the same three items — all answered at once, because each moves the other two.
- 01A cell that is already chosenFormat, capacity and three dimensions — it decides stack length, fixture geometry and the energy behind every output figure.
- 02A module and pack configuration on a drawingSeries and parallel count, enclosure size, mass — decides pressing span, insertion tooling and pack-segment headcount.
- 03An annual output target in MWh or GWhDecides takt tier, footprint and installed power — the number most often quoted without the cell energy that makes it mean anything.
All three, and the first reply is a layout. One, and it is questions.
The published blueprint
Blueprint Cell, Module and Pack
Three objects, each constraining the next. Naming all three with sizes and mass is what makes a takt figure comparable.
52 cells, one enclosureThirteen per module, four modules per pack.
1P13S module
978.4 × 178.9 × 205 mm
≤100 kg, end plates and steel banding
13.1kWh per module
1P52S pack
1152 × 810 × 243 mm
≤400 kg, closed and leak tested
52.3kWh per pack
| Layer | Configuration | Size and mass | Energy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cell | 280 / 314 Ah prismatic | thickness 71.3 × width 174 × height 207 mm | 1.005 kWh at 314 Ah, 3.2 V |
| Module | 1P13S | 978.4 × 178.9 × 205 mm, ≤100 kg | 13.1 kWh |
| Pack | 1P52S | 1152 × 810 × 243 mm, ≤400 kg | 52.3 kWh |
On BLP-P8 the blueprint cell is a 314 Ah prismatic at 207 ±0.5 × 173 ±0.5 × 72 ±0.5 mm; the module built from it is the same 1P13S.
Why the three rows are published together
A takt figure with no object behind it can mean anything. Read the rows as one set and the energy column becomes usable: every output band below is built from 1.005, 13.1 and 52.3 kWh.
Same blueprint, both directionsA tier is chosen by dividing your target output by these numbers.
What each layer fixes
Each Layer Fixes the Stations Above
Each row lands on named stations. Change a row and they change.
Layer 01
Cell → BLP-SP
Thickness sets the stack length
Thirteen cells at 71.3 mm set how far the platen reaches — hence a span, not one figure.
- Station
- BLP-SP
- Pressing span
- 300–1100 mm
- Press force
- 0–8000 N, curve recorded
Layer 02
Module → BLP-CV
Module mass sets what gets carried
Module mass sets what the conveyor takes and what the insertion fixture holds — rated at double, because the fixture travels with it.
- Station
- BLP-CV
- Rated load
- ≥200 kg
- Speed
- ≤20 m/min
Layer 03
Pack → BLP-GL and the leak stations
Pack size sets handling and volume
The 1P52S pack sets enclosure handling, the gluing pattern and the volume the leak test holds pressure in. A larger enclosure is not a bigger version of the same test.
- Stations
- BLP-GL and both leak tests
- Pack mass
- ≤400 kg
- Hold
- 5 kPa, 60 s, IP67 target
Moving to a different cell, station by station: the cell compatibility and changeover page.
Two segments, one handover
Energy Storage Battery Pack Line, Two Segments
Both are ours, both laid out against your building, both on the same signed criteria.
Segment 01
17Module stations
- Unloading, scanning, grading, reversing and grouping
- Plasma cleaning, taping, end plate and insulation handling
- Stacking, pressing, banding, polarity and insulation testing
- Terminal addressing, CCS fitting, busbar laser welding
- Post-weld cleaning, re-inspection, module EOL test
Segment 02
15Pack stations
- Enclosure and plate cleaning, plate leak testing
- Floor gluing, module insertion and fixing
- Copper bar, BMS, MSD and connector fitting
- Harness routing, lid fitting and tightening, front panel
- Whole-pack leak test, pack end-of-line test
Turnkey, and what that covers
Layout, equipment, installation, commissioning, acceptance and training as one project rather than machines you integrate — drawn against the floor loading and clear height you have, not a standard bay.
Powered up before it ships
Before dispatch the line stands complete in one of three pre-assembly bays inside a 6,000 m² workshop and runs in its shipping configuration.
Station by station, with what is measured at each: the pack assembly line page. The engineering team: about.
1 cell → 1 minute
PPM counts one cell entering the module segment, per minute, at the feeding point — not packs, not modules.
Range around the blueprint
The Compatibility Envelope Around the Blueprint
Around the blueprint each tier carries a range within which the same stations, in the same order, still build your product. The marker on each bar is where the blueprint sits — and your drawing gets checked on these same six bars.
A statement about the sequenceNot about the tooling. Fixtures are cut to a point, never to a range.
Layer 01 · Cell
BLP-P8S and BLP-P15
Cell width
100 mm220 mm
blueprint 174 mm
Cell height
100 mm220 mm
blueprint 207 mm
Cell thickness
20 mm80 mm
blueprint 71.3 mm
Layer 02 · Module
Module envelope, BLP-P8S and BLP-P15
Module length
400 mm1200 mm
blueprint 978.4 mm
Module width
100 mm300 mm
blueprint 178.9 mm
Module height
100 mm250 mm
blueprint 205 mm
| What varies | Range | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Module envelope | length 300–1000 × width 150–370 × height 100–240 mm | BLP-P8 |
| Pack envelope | length 600–1200 × width 300–800 × height 100–250 mm | BLP-P8 |
For BLP-P8, 587 Ah large-format compatibility is a roadmap item under consideration, not a capability on the floor today.
What being inside the envelope means, precisely
Your module or pack can be built by the same stations in the same order, at the same takt tier. That is the whole claim, and it is narrower than it sounds. Fixtures are cut to a point, not a range, so two modules inside one envelope still need different insertion, fixing and pressing tooling.
The move between them is a fixture change with a duration attached:
- Welding — recipe recall and first-piece check
- Press — platen, locating fixture, banding change
- Cell loading — gripper and tray program
Inside the range and already qualified, that is a shift. A type nobody has run before adds first-piece qualification and a signed grading table.
Inside the envelopeSame sequence, same tier, different tooling.
What the envelope does not cover
- Grading windows — those come from your signed sorting table, not from a dimension
- Cell chemistry and terminal geometry — addressing and welding recipes are set per part number
- Enclosure interfaces — coolant ports, MSD position and connector layout are drawn from your part, not inferred
Why the envelope is published rather than quoted
A range you can check yourself beats one you have to ask for.
- Checked against
- Six bars above
- Takes
- One minute
- Needs
- Three numbers
One piece of arithmetic to run first
Thirteen cells at your thickness, plus end plates and insulation, is the stack the press has to close. At the blueprint 71.3 mm that lands near 978 mm; at 80 mm it lands past 1040 mm and still sits inside the 400–1200 mm module bar. Run that multiplication before you send the drawing and you already know which bar is tight.
Using it early
The Envelope at First Contact
Checking three dimensions against a published range takes a minute and settles the next month.
The line you see is the line we would build
- Sequence, takt tier and acceptance criteria hold as published
- Talk moves straight to tooling, changeover and bay dimensions
Sequence holds, stations get re-dimensioned
- Order of operations is unchanged — nothing collapses
- Pressing span, fixture geometry, conveyor pitch, leak-test volume recalculated
Either way the answer comes from three numbers. Send them with your enquiry and the check is done before the reply.
Three storage classes
Three Storage Classes, One Line
Capacity, voltage and architecture below are an industry classification, reproduced so the last row has something to attach to — that last row is ours.
Industry classification
Residential storage
5–30 kWh48 / 120 / 240 V · inverter and battery in one unit
- Typical site
- Home energy management
- Cooling
- Air
What the line needs
- Smaller enclosures and lighter packs; fixtures scale down
- Tier chosen by output rather than by pack size
Industry classification
Commercial and industrial
100 kWh – 10 MWh400–800 V · modular packs with an independent PCS
- Typical site
- Peak shaving, microgrid backup
- Cooling
- Air or liquid
What the line needs
- The blueprint case: a 1P52S pack at 52.3 kWh, modular enclosure
- Tooling as published, thresholds as published
Industry classification
Grid-scale storage
10 MWh – 1 GWh+10 kV and above · containerised with a central PCS
- Typical site
- Renewable firming, frequency regulation
- Cooling
- Liquid
What the line needs
- Many packs of blueprint class, not a different pack
- Highest tier at 12–15 PPM; liquid cooling adds three stations
Scope is identical in all three rows. A grid-scale project orders more of the same takt, usually with liquid cooling — not a different machine.
The route that reaches furthest
Air or Liquid: the First Fork
Cooling route reaches deepest into the pack segment — it belongs in the first message, not the third layout revision.
Route A
Air cooling
Simpler structure and lower cost, with less even heat distribution. Typical of residential, small and mid-sized commercial systems and telecom sites. The pack segment runs its standard station list.
- No plate leak test, no plate bonding
- Floor gluing still applies where the build calls for it
Route B
Liquid cooling
Heat removed faster and more evenly, with more structure to build and maintain. Typical of grid-scale plants, fast-charging sites and hot, humid environments. Three stations enter the segment, each with a signed threshold.
- Plate leak test before anything is bonded
- Floor gluing on BLP-GL, then the whole-pack hold
Say the route firstIt changes the station list before it changes anything else.
Send four things
A Layout Drawn Against Your Pack
Cell drawing with three dimensions, module and pack configuration with mass, cooling route, target takt or output. Back within 24 hours: a layout, a station list with automation labels, a tier recommendation.
Cell drawing, three dimensions
Module and pack configuration
Air or liquid
Target takt or annual output
Liquid-cooled build
Three Stations a Liquid-Cooled Pack Adds
Each carries a threshold, and each threshold is written into the acceptance criteria table both sides sign before the line ships.
Signed before dispatchAdjustable in writing to suit your enclosure; what is agreed is what acceptance measures.
Pack station 02
Cooling plate leak test
200kPa dry air
60 shold
≤1kPa drop = pass
Tested before anything is bonded — catching a leaking plate here, not after it is glued in and covered by four modules.
Pack station 03
Floor gluing on BLP-GL
±2mm bead path
5%dispensed volume
±0.2mm vision location
Twin-servo metering with a live pressure curve: the bead is controlled by how much adhesive left the nozzle, not by how long the valve stayed open. Curves go to your MES over PROFINET, tagged to the enclosure.
Pack station 13
Whole-pack leak test
5kPa charge
60 shold
≤0.3kPa drop = pass
Run after the lid is fitted and tightened, against an IP67 target. Lid tightening is a servo operation at 8–25 N·m by recipe, and its torque and angle results release this hold.
What the gluing station records, and why it matters at station 13
Adhesive has an open time, stored with the recipe and counted from the moment the bead is laid. A pack that waits too long is held, not quietly passed on — proved by the same PROFINET trace.
Full specification: the cooling plate gluing station page.
Recipes are selected, not editedProcess engineer writes, quality countersigns, operator picks.
Two holds, two jobs
Two Leak Tests, Two Different Jobs
200 kPaplate, 60 s hold
Protects the pack from its coolant circuit
High pressure on an empty plate, where a failure costs one plate.
- Station
- Pack 02
- Pass
- drop ≤1 kPa
5 kPaclosed pack, 60 s hold
Protects the pack from its site
Low pressure on a sealed enclosure against IP67, where a failure costs the build.
- Station
- Pack 13
- Pass
- drop ≤0.3 kPa
Electrical testing after that — insulation, withstand voltage, total voltage and resistance, continuity — on the pack EOL testing page.
People, not machines
Staffing an Energy Storage Battery Pack Line
The module segment is where the automation sits. The pack segment is mostly people — worth saying plainly, because a drawing hides which is which.
- 12–14People in the pack segment, on BLP-P8S and BLP-P15 alike
- 4 + 4Cell handling and module welding on BLP-P8S
- 4 + 3Cell handling and module welding on BLP-P15
Every station carries one of three labels
Automatic
Semi-automatic
Manual
Each of the 32 positions is labelled on the station list you receive. In the pack segment on BLP-P8 the automatic floor gluing station is the automated position; the rest are people with fixtures, torque tools and test stations.
Not a gap
A Choice, Not a Backlog
Where automation pays
On a 400 kg pack, a person with a fixture is faster to set up, faster to change over and easier to re-deploy than a machine cut to one enclosure — which covers most of the segment:
- Module insertion and fixing
- Copper bar and harness routing
- Lid fitting, front panel and connector work
Automation pays upstream instead — grading to a signed window, pressing to a recorded curve, welding to a stored recipe.
One line that is easy to misread
BLP-CV is rated at ≥200 kg and runs at up to 20 m/min — roughly double the ≤100 kg blueprint module, because the fixture travels with it. It appears against the pack segment because it delivers modules into that segment’s handover, not because it carries the finished 400 kg pack.
- Rated load
- ≥200 kg
- Speed
- ≤20 m/min
- Carries
- Modules and fixtures
- Does not carry
- Finished packs
Rebuild it yourself
Annual Output and the Arithmetic Behind It
Output figures are only useful if you can rebuild them. Every factor is here — change one and the band moves.
PPMCells per minute
60Minutes
8Hours per shift
300Days
1.005kWh per cell
0.85Utilisation
GWh / yrAnnual output
500 MWh – 1 GWh
BLP-P8S, 4–8 PPM
Semi-automatic economy tier, 56 × 10 × 4 m, 200 kW installed. Blueprint 314 Ah cell, 300-day 8-hour basis.
1 – 2 GWh
BLP-P15, 12–15 PPM
High-automation tier, 54 × 20 × 4 m, 300 kW installed. Same cell, same basis — only the first factor changes.
Read either band in units instead of energy
Divide by 52.3 kWh for packs, 13.1 kWh for modules. A tier decision made in packs per year is clearer than one in gigawatt-hours — packs are what your customer orders.
Utilisation is the term worth checking
Time utilisation × performance utilisation × first-pass yield, where first-pass yield is units in − NG unitsunits in. The 0.85 is that product, not availability alone.
Change an input, follow the arithmeticA different shift pattern changes the 8; a different working year the 300; a 280 Ah cell the 1.005 — same line, same PPM, different band.
Takt tier, footprint, installed power and headcount side by side across all three tiers: the capacity planning page, which is where a tier decision is best made.
Measured twice
Two Acceptance Runs, One Criteria Table
Both are measured against criteria written station by station and signed before the line ships — the three liquid-cooling thresholds above included.
Run 01 · In our bay
Factory acceptance, on your own material
Your cells, busbars, end plates, enclosures and cooling plates, on the line in its shipping configuration.
4 hContinuous run
20Modules tested
5Packs tested
Run 02 · On your floor
Site acceptance, at the target takt
Counted at the feeding point, with human factors excluded in writing beforehand.
8 hAt target takt
≥99%Equipment-caused yield
≥1000 NWeld sample pull
Only the missed items re-runRecorded with station, measured value and criterion; corrected by the engineer who set it; re-run within 10 working days.
- Written by
- The engineer who sets the parameter
- Countersigned by
- Quality
- Signed
- Before dispatch
- Material
- Yours
The eight-step sequence, the material list and what training covers: the FAT and SAT acceptance page.
Seven lines
Seven Lines to Send
Everything above becomes specific once your product is on the table. Send these seven.
- Cell model, three dimensions, capacity in AhChecked against the envelope first.
- Module configuration in series and parallel, with massSets pressing span, banding and conveyor load.
- Pack configuration, enclosure dimensions and massSets insertion tooling, gluing pattern and leak volume.
- Cooling route, and whether the cooling plate is yoursDecides whether three stations enter the segment.
- Target takt in PPM, or annual output in MWh or GWhEither one converts to the other.
- Building clear height and floor loadingFloor loading ≥800 kg/m²; clear height to the lowest obstruction.
- Whether you will attend the factory acceptance runTwo weeks’ notice sets the bay up in your configuration.
What comes back, and when
Within 24 hoursLayout, station list with automation labels, tier recommendation.
Single-station questions reach the same engineer: contact.
Your enquiry, ready to send
If your email client opened, it is already in the message. If nothing opened, use one of the two routes below.
Start a project
Energy Storage Battery Pack Line Layout
A drawing and a number are enough. Send them to our engineering team and a layout, a station list with automation labels and a tier recommendation come back within 24 hours.
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