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OEM Battery Integration & Product Design Challenges

Apply if you are facing a real OEM Product Design decision and need to validate it.

A confidential, decision-focused call for OEMs integrating batteries into industrial products, addressing architecture, safety, certification and scalability challenges.

Apply – OEM Product Design Challenge

WHO SHOULD APPLY

This call is exclusively for OEMs and product manufacturers that:

  • Integrate or plan to integrate batteries into their products
  • Take decisions on architecture, safety, certification or industrialisation
  • Have a defined product or technology roadmap

Typical OEM profiles:

  • Robotics & industrial automation
  • AGVs & automated logistics
  • Industrial machinery & mobile equipment
  • Light marine, rail or aerospace systems
  • Electrified industrial equipment

Excluded:

  • Technology vendors without a proprietary product
  • Mass-market EV or automotive OEMs
  • Concept-only or exploratory R&D cases

WHAT TYPE OF CHALLENGES WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • Battery architecture (packs, modules, cells)
  • Thermal management, weight and volume constraints
  • Safety and certification requirements
  • BMS, software and control integration
  • Reliability, degradation and lifecycle performance
  • Industrial scalability and supply chain
  • Make vs buy decisions and co-design models

Challenges related to:

  • New product design
  • Redesign of existing products
  • Validation and pre-industrialisation
  • Next-generation roadmap decisions

SELECTION APPROACH & CONFIDENTIALITY

  • Open but curated
  • Limited number of OEM challenges selected
  • Confidential by default
  • No public disclosure without explicit approval
Apply – OEM Product Design Challenge

CHALLENGE APPLICATION FORM