Breaking the Barriers to Scale with a Custom MES/ERP for a Battery Startup
Background
A Bay Area battery technology startup was struggling to scale. Their biggest barrier? A lack of product traceability. Production treated all cells as undifferentiated batches, with no tracking of individual battery data. Making informed decisions and monitoring performance in real time became an impossible task.
They lacked a consolidated historical run data sheet, a standardized bill of materials (BOM), and spent an entire workday manually generating charts. Off-the-shelf solutions couldn’t deliver the traceability they needed for high precision battery manufacturing. So they partnered with one of our cofounders to build a system that could.
Our co-founder jumped on board to give this team something they’d never had before: live visibility, full traceability, and a digital foundation that could grow with their ambitions.