Featured in Chinese Connection – 04-2010

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Reducing the cost of inverters: If cost pressure on the industry goes up, inverters also have to get cheaper. Werner Kupka of the Solme Deutschland consultancy explains how video analysis can boost the ergonomics of their final assembly and raise the efficiency by 50 percent of an operation, which makes up almost a third of the value created in inverter production.
Michael Fuhs
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Michael Fuhs

Cost pressure is getting tougher all along the value chain. How much more can you increase the efficiency of inverter manufacturing? We can still see a lot of slack, definitely in final assembly, at least. We estimate that many firms could work 30 to 50 percent more efficiently.How did you find that out? We took …

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