3D Printed Battery Powers Predictive Maintenance in Steel Production

A collaborative initiative called 3Dstore, spearheaded by the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) alongside the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and steelmaking giant CELSA, has brought an unconventional solution to a persistent industrial challenge: unplanned machinery failures.  The consortium has engineered a monitoring system driven by a solid oxide battery fabricated through additive manufacturing,…