Cybus at New Battery World 2025: The future of gigafactory data integration

Scalable data integration for battery cell production // The blueprint for gigafactories // Data-driven production without loss of budget or time

Hamburg, den 04.03.2025 – The construction of greenfield gigafactories is a balancing act between opportunities and risks: Modern factory architecture, strategically thought through from the ground up, is confronted with extreme time, cost and market pressures. This key challenge for the battery cell industry was the focus of Cybus’ presentation at New Battery World 2025 in Munich. In his keynote speech, Peter Sorowka, CEO of Cybus GmbH, used a practical example from a leading German battery cell manufacturer to resolve this conflict. Through standardized data integration and a strategic blueprint, several greenfield gigafactories are successfully networked within a very short time.

Standardized infrastructure as a success factor for battery production

The growing demand for lithium-ion batteries requires speed, scalability and efficiency. To meet these demands, it is not enough to expand production capacity–it is necessary to strategically develop a production environment that is dynamic, replicable and open to new technologies. The first and critical building block is the data infrastructure. Sorowka uses the example of a leading battery cell manufacturer to show how multiple gigafactories were successfully ramped up. The success factory was a ‘blueprint’, a configuration and target architecture that shows both the integration of the systems and the use cases that can be easily rolled out to identical plants. The centralized data infrastructure made it possible, for example, to replace the ME system and incorporate new technologies during the ramp-up. 

„The battery industry needs scalable, standardized data architectures to keep up with the rapid pace of development. Our solution enables smooth integration across multiple sites and lays the foundation for data-driven manufacturing processes,“ said Peter Sorowka, CEO of Cybus.

Discussion on the digital future of battery manufacturing

In addition to the keynote speech, Cybus took part in the panel discussion ‘Challenges and Solutions of Digitalisation: From Smart Factory to Virtual Commissioning’, where industry experts discussed the key challenges and solutions for digitalisation in battery manufacturing. The focus was on how manufacturers can standardise data while remaining flexible to new requirements in order to remain competitive. Cybus used real-world examples to demonstrate how intelligent data integration can help reduce commissioning times and minimise production downtime.