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How to make battery analysis as easy as ordering pizza

A clever use of templates that saves time and effort

When you order a pizza, you generally have 3 options:

Option 1: 

I want a Hawaiian pizza.

Option 2:

I want a pizza with pineapple, ham, and cheese.

Option 3:

Select a pineapple. Cut off the top and bottom. Slice the skin. Remove the eyes. Remove the fibrous core. Slice pineapple quarters into chunks. Place pineapples on top of cheese.

 

Option 3 is ridiculous -- and you may be surprised to learn that this is exactly how most battery engineers approach their analysis. Going through rote steps and configuring charts is unnecessary with the power of templates. Templates allow a user to specify the exact plots, formatting, and colors that should be used and reused to visualize different data sets. Show Voltaiq how to do it once, and it'll automate it for you. How about the other two options?

Option 1, or ordering a Hawaiian pizza by name, is analogous with already having a template that captures all the visualizations you need. Load the perfect template with one click, and the hard work is done. This is the ideal workflow, especially for common tasks like cycle life or rate performance.

But what if you get an uncommon request, like a pizza with onions and anchovies? This is where Option 2, or specifying a pizza by its toppings, becomes extremely powerful. You can pre-define an onion template and an anchovy template, and load it onto your pizza.

In battery terms, you can pre-define the individual plots and analyses that are commonly used, and load them into your analysis. For example, some common analyses could be capacity retention, voltage profile, or DCIR templates. Load them all in to build the complete picture.

This saves you time because you don't have to configure, format, or adjust any plots -- just add them and you're done.

How?

  1. Create a template for each plot or analysis. 
    In this example, we created 3 templates: a capacity retention template, a voltage profile template, and a DCIR template.

2. Return to the search tab, select some new data, and load it into a new workspace.

3. In the new workspace, click the 3 dots in the top right and choose Load Template into Workspace.

4. Select the name of the template and click Confirm.

This loads the template and adds the plot to your existing workspace.

5. Repeat the previous 2 steps until all templates have been loaded.

Finished Workspace

After loading in the capacity retention template, voltage profile template, and DCIR template, the resulting workspace contains all of the plots that are included in each template. 

This allows you to create a finished workspace for analysis in seconds without having to configure, format, or adjust any axes, colors, or settings.

Voltaiq's expert battery engineers can set up the templates for you

Already included as part of your subscription, Voltaiq has an team of expert battery engineers that can help identify (or suggest) the common plots, visualizations, and analyses that you need, and help set them up in your instance as templates. Contact us at support@voltaiq.com and you can generate an analysis as easily as choosing toppings on your pizza.