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Consumer Battery Assembly

DMW Automation is the recognized supplier of custom specialty automation equipment used to assemble consumer batteries.

We have supplied leading battery manufacturers with innovative automated solutions designed to meet their specific needs for over 35 years, and have supplied in excess of 50 production lines worldwide. For more information on our consumer battery production technologies and types, click the following links.


Battery Assembly Machine
Battery filling and closing machine.

Primary Technologies Used

Our custom-designed and fabricated equipment incorporates and integrates a variety of automation technologies including:

  • Continuous-motion platforms
  • Indexing platforms
  • Puck carrier platforms
  • Product conveyors
  • Serpentine accumulation
  • Parts feeding and orienting
  • A variety of filling and dispensing applications for liquids and pastes
  • Use of lasers for cutting, welding and inspecting
  • Various cell closing techniques
  • Handling of electrodes
  • Electrical and visual test equipment, and
  • Programmable Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)

View consumer battery assembly in our Custom Automation Gallery.

Types of Batteries Assembled

DMW Automation’s consumer battery assembly lines operate at speeds up to 1200 parts per minute and can produce and package alkaline batteries, Ni-Cad (nickel-cadmium batteries) & Ni-MH (nickel-metal hydride batteries) rechargeable batteries, and lithium primary & rechargeable batteries in the following sizes:

  • AAAA
  • AAA
  • AA
  • 2/3 A, 4/5A, A
  • 18650, 26650
  • Sub C, C
  • D
  • 9-volt, and
  • Battery packs

Other mass produced batteries that require high-speed production include:

  • Button cells
  • Lithium cell batteries for military & aerospace applications
  • Hybrid vehicles batteries, and
  • Wound lead acid batteries

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For more information about DMW Automation’s battery assembly and our custom automation equipment and systems services, please call us at 847-437-0665 or email us at sales@dmwautomation.com.

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Battery Assembly

High-speed alkaline battery assembly line that increased quality and production speed, reduced rejects, and changed the way batteries are produced worldwide.