On June 30, 2021, Prof. Alejandro A. Franco is giving an invited lecture in the Emerging 2021 School (Barcelona, Spain, online) organized by the COFUND Doctoral Programme DOC-FAM (Doctoral Training Programme in Functional Advanced Materials). In his lecture he is going to explain the principles behind the use of machine learning and physical modeling on the manufacturing of Lithium Ion Batteries, by using as illustrations the results obtained in the ARTISTIC project.