Equipment Procurement & Acceptance Toolkit: Electrode Coating & Drying

This toolkit gives battery cell manufacturing teams a ready-to-use, editable set of procurement documents for sourcing and accepting electrode coating & drying equipment — from first tender through to equipment sign-off. Download the templates, adapt them to your project, and issue them to your equipment vendors.

Who it's for

Process, manufacturing and procurement engineers working in battery cell manufacturing — and the strategic sourcing teams who support them — running an equipment selection exercise for a pilot or production coating-and-drying line. It is equally useful as a benchmark when reviewing a vendor proposal you have already received.

What's inside

• Invitation to Tender (ITT) — a full tender document covering strategic context, definitions, codes & standards, scope of supply, and structured solution requirements (general, atmospheric, product, material-compatibility and delivery-system).
• Vendor Requirements Return Matrix — the companion spreadsheet vendors complete, with 50+ line-item requirements and columns for conformance, clarifications and comments so responses are directly comparable.
• Equipment Acceptance Report (EAR) — a 15-worksheet workbook to run the acceptance process: input page, discipline checklists (requisitioning, industrial, controls, HSE, environmental, ergonomics), Equipment Verification Plan, sign-off, issue log and change record.

How to use it

Start with the ITT to define your requirements and scope, issue the Return Matrix alongside it for vendor responses, then use the Equipment Acceptance Report through FAT/SAT to verify and formally accept the delivered equipment within your battery cell manufacturing line. The templates are illustrative starting points — review and tailor every requirement to your own facility, chemistry and safety case before issuing.