Comau Automation solutions for Hydrogen

Hydrogen Automation

The future of clean energy

Electrolyzers and Fuel Cells Manufacturing: Powering Decarbonization

Hydrogen is a safe and highly efficient energy carrier. It is also a reliable, zero-emission power source that can fuel passenger and industrial vehicles, in addition to other applications. This places hydrogen in an ideal position to boost the adoption of renewables worldwide, which will subsequently help tackle multiple critical energy challenges.

Comau Automation Solutions Offering

For both hydrogen production and utilization, Comau supports customers in their manufacturing journey. For electrolyzers and fuel cells, PEM, alkaline, AEM or SOFC, Comau works closely with its customers to offer powerful automation solutions for stacking, testing and BoP.

Fuel Cell manufacturing process

Electrolyzer manufacturing process

Fuel Cell manufacturing

From a thorough product and process analysis to the final stages of budgeting and planning, our approach ensures efficient project reshaping, ergonomic and quality analysis, concept layout, station design, control layout, simulation, and validation. Backed by a Simultaneous Engineering approach, we bring your automation vision to life with precision and expertise.

From the manipulation of key components to the delivery of specialized grippers and robots for diverse materials, Comau covers your end-to-end material handling needs. Our expertise includes managing the Bipolar Plate (BPP), Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA), and the Gas Diffusion Layer (GDL). What’s more, our laser welding expertise and our high-performance vision systems for robot guidance ensure accurate quality inspection throughout the process.

We deliver precise and repeatable stacking automation through modular cells that support scalable production. Our in-house software facilitates the evolution of production techniques, while high-performance vision systems enhance robot guidance. Our solutions portfolio also includes efficient pick-and-place operations and pressing systems, ensuring precision and consistency at every stage of the process.

To protect product quality and ensure safety standards, Comau offers a complete portfolio of  integrated inspection solutions, including dielectric and leak tests. And by working with Comau as your EOL testing supplier, you benefit from a single-source quality assurance solution that works seamlessly with your end-to-end production process.

Balance of Plant (BoP) Assembly is another critical aspect, ensuring the integration of various components within the system for optimal functionality and efficiency. Here, Comau’s 50+ years of automation and production experience are second to none.

Our solutions are backed by a comprehensive portfolio of digital tools that ensure full visibility and control across all stages. From full traceability to quality inspection, analytics, correlation, simulation, and IoT integration, Comau lets you harness the power of digitized data transfer for real-time control and monitoring.

Electrolyzer manufacturing

From a thorough product and process analysis to the final stages of budgeting and planning, our approach ensures efficient project reshaping, ergonomic and quality analysis, concept layout, station design, control layout, simulation, and validation. Backed by a Simultaneous Engineering approach, we bring your automation vision to life with precision and expertise.

Backed by a longstanding history of working with complex processes, heavy materials and high payloads, Comau has the tools and knowhow to cover your end-to-end material handling needs. From the manipulation of key components to the delivery of specialized grippers and robots for diverse materials, our  expertise extends to managing the Bipolar Plate (BPP), Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA), the Gas Diffusion Layer (GDL) and gaskets. The comprehensive offer extends to laser welding and high-performance vision systems for robot guidance to ensure accurate quality inspections throughout the process.

We ensure precise and repeatable stacking automation through modular cells designed for scalable production. Our in-house software supports the continuous evolution of production techniques, while high-performance vision systems optimize robot guidance for enhanced accuracy. Additionally, our solutions portfolio includes efficient pick-and-place operations, safe management of electrolytes, and heavy force pressing capabilities, all of which grant you precision, consistency and efficiency at every stage of the process.

To protect product quality and ensure safety standards, Comau offers a complete portfolio of  integrated inspection solutions, including dielectric and leak tests. And by working with Comau as your EOL testing supplier, you can benefit from a single-source quality assurance solution that works seamlessly with your end-to-end production process.

Balance of Plant (BoP) Assembly is another critical aspect, ensuring the integration of various components within the system for optimal functionality and efficiency. Here, Comau’s 50+ years of automation and production experience are second to none.

Our solutions are backed by a comprehensive portfolio of digital tools that ensure full visibility and control across all stages. From full traceability to quality inspection, analytics, correlation, simulation, and IoT integration, Comau lets you harness the power of digitized data transfer for real-time control and monitoring.

Comau Fuel cell stacking line

Why choose Comau?

Our Simultaneous Engineering process ensures efficiency from product analysis to final budgeting and planning. By integrating ergonomic and quality assessments, with the concept layout, station design, control layout, simulation, and validation, we work alongside our customers to bring their automation visions to life.

Comau’s in-house lab tests and demonstrator cells validate your systems, ensuring they meet the highest standards before full-scale implementation.

Comau offers scalable, seamless cell and stack assembly solutions, integrating robotics and equipment from all brands. Our longstanding robotics expertise and systems integration approach let you further benefit from the inherent processes and performance efficiencies of working with a single turnkey supplier.

We provide expert robotics supervision and management alongside dedicated technical training to ensure your team operates with confidence and efficiency.

With a strong international network and decades of PMI project management experience, Comau offers trusted, localized support wherever your operations are based. We collaborate closely with your team to ensure smooth, high-performance project execution.

Manufacturing Excellence

Today’s manufacturing scenarios increasingly require full process traceability and may or may not necessitate adherence to clean room standards. Cell testing procedures are also extensive since and cover both leaks and electrical operations.

Here’s where Comau’s 50+ years of automation expertise gives us a leading edge. We make sure that every unit undergoes rigorous leak testing, validating its integrity and performance.

Our complete family of robots, and advanced gripping and vision systems enable the effective automation of stack and system production.

Comau’s consultancy services further provide manufacturing concepts, DFMEA, and business case support to successfully address the individual characteristics of each project.

More importantly, our standard automation cells ensure easy set-up with zero engineering design hours to ramp-up production in the fastest and most cost-effective way possible – without sacrificing advanced functionality or future scalability.

Steadfast Commitment to Proven Results

Enabling hydrogen production and deployment is a priority at Comau. Our very first hydrogen fuel cell project featured a proprietary high-speed, high-precision multi-axis stacking technology that can simultaneously manage the pole piece pick-up, code scanning, secondary positioning, and shell loading within 4 seconds.

Similarly, we are actively applying our expertise on multiple fuel cell and electrolyzer projects around the world, including solutions for light and heavy-duty vehicles.

When it comes to increasing production volumes while lowering the cost of fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing, Comau is your automation partner of choice.

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