Waygate Technologies announces strategic partnership with Liminal Insights
19/05/2026
Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and global leader in non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial and energy infrastructure inspection, and Liminal Insights, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven ultrasound inspection for batteries, have announced a strategic technology and channel collaboration to deliver what is believed to be the industry’s first integrated multi-modal inspection solution for battery manufacturing.Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will collaborate across battery manufacturing, technology development and services inspection, including the development of next-generation probes and integrated service offerings. In addition, Waygate Technologies will be Liminal’s preferred channel and integration partner to battery gigafactory and other battery field customers, utilising Liminal’s EchoStat inspection system across in-line inspections for high-volume battery production operations.
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| Waygate Technologies’ Phoenix V|tome|x M Neo flexible industrial dual-tube micro/nano CT scanner |
The goal of the joint effort is to deepen collaboration across manufacturing, technology development and services. Both companies will explore joint product development, co-engineering of next-generation probes and integrated service offerings for a fundamental inspection challenge that battery factories worldwide are facing: up to 90% of electric vehicle (EV) battery cells contain some form of anomaly, yet no single inspection technology can detect all failure modes across the production lifecycle.
By bringing together the industrial computed tomography (CT) and radiography leadership of Waygate Technologies with Liminal’s real-time ultrasound AI analytics, the two companies will be able to offer a full-lifecycle inspection capability spanning cell production through to module assembly and field service.
For radiography and CT, the collaboration leverages CT systems from Waygate Technologies for quality assurance and failure analysis in laboratory environments, research and development (R&D)-grade nano-CT for cell development and materials characterisation and high-energy CT for battery pack and module level inspection. The Waygate Technologies Krautkrämer product line adds ultrasound solutions from phased array electronics to advanced beam-forming algorithms and probes designed and purpose built in-house for industrial environments. Co-development with Liminal will combine the company’s proprietary array probe technology and signal processing electronics with Liminal’s EchoStat hardware platforms and AI analytics layer, creating a next-generation in-line ultrasonic testing (UT) platform with superior sensitivity and production-line robustness.
Through the combination of multiple non-destructive testing modalities: X-ray CT as ground truth, ultrasound for in-line screening and machine learning to close the feedback loop with process data, manufacturers will gain earlier defect intervention, reduced end-of-line scrap and data-driven process optimisation.
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| Liminal’s EchoStat Array ultrasonic inspection system for in-line testing |
“Even a fraction of a percent yield improvement at gigafactory scale translates to tens of millions in annual savings,” said Paul Perera, Director of Strategy, Technology & Partnerships at Waygate Technologies. “The goal of combining the unique strengths of both companies is to significantly increase productivity for our customers.”
“Multi-modality is the future of battery inspection. Waygate Technologies’ global installed base and deep NDT heritage make the company the ideal partner to scale our EchoStat in-line inspection systems,” added Shaurjo Biswas, Chief Executive Officer, Liminal Insights. “Together, we offer battery manufacturers a single-source inspection solution from R&D through volume production that no competitor can match today.”
Waygate Technologies maintains a presence at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) in Coventry, which is one of Europe’s leading battery process development facilities. A joint proof-of-concept programme has tested over 400 battery cells through the combined UT and CT workflow, building a comprehensive battery data science dataset. The programme has demonstrated that the multi-modal approach delivers over 10% cost savings versus single-modality inspection, with a further 12% improvement in defect capture rate.
The announcement of this strategic collaboration coincides with the commissioning of UKBIC’s new flexible industrialisation line (FIL), providing an ideal environment to validate the integrated Waygate Technologies and Liminal inspection workflow at production-representative scale, from electrolyte filling through formation and ageing before deployment to commercial gigafactories.
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