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100

The year Panasonic broke ground in DeSoto, KS for its EV battery Gigafactory.

What is 2022?

100

The two supervisors over formation cohort 1.

Rawley Ratcliffe/Brandon Fly

100

A type of energy characterized by the movement of electrons through a conductor.

Electricity

100

The negative terminal of a battery.

What is an Anode?
100

What SQCDP stands for.

What are Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People?

200

The year Panasonic was first founded.

What is 1918?

200

Formation/VI production manager covering shift C.

Tony Orf

200

Electric potential difference that “pushes” electrons through a circuit.

What is Voltage?

200

The positive terminal of a battery cell.

What is a Cathode?
200

What “6S” stands for.

What are Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, and Safety?

300

The founder of Panasonic.

Who is Konosuke Matsushita?

300

Vice President of Operations for PECNA.

Innocent Chikunya

300

A type of electrical current characterized by electrons flowing in only one direction throughout a circuit.

Direct Current

300

A type of battery that is able to charge and discharge using the reversal of polarity of its terminals.

What are Secondary (rechargeable) Batteries?

300

What OCV/IR stands for.

What are Open Circuit Voltage/ Internal Resistance?

400

The first product produced by Panasonic.

What are Duplex Lampsockets?

400

President of PECNA.

Allan Swan

400

A law describing the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.

What is Ohms Law?

400

The model number of batteries that will be produced at Panasonic’s DeSoto Gigafactory.

What is model 2170?

400

What MES stands for.

What is Manufacturing Execution System?

500

The year Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. changed its name to “Panasonic Corporation”.

2008

500

President and CEO of Panasonic Corporation.

Yuki Kusumi

500

A description of electron flow as electrons traveling from the positive terminal of a power source to the negative terminal.

Conventional Current

500

The dimensions of the battery cells produced at the Panasonic Gigafactory in DeSoto, KS.

What are 21mm in diameter, 70 mm in length?


500

What BETR stands for.

What is a Battery Engineering Training Run?