Featured in Contactless prowess – 06-2011

Its all about quality

Process and quality management systems: Factory-wide automation of process and quality control is an emerging trend in PV fabs around the world. Driving the trend is the need to improve yield, produce higher efficiency cells more consistently, and cut manufacturing costs.

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Shamsiah Ali Oettinger

31 May 2011

Control of PV manufacturing processes and quality is not only desirable as it can cut yield losses, improve throughput and boost cell efficiencies, but it is also possible as a growing number of vendors make such technologies available to the industry. Automated quality control and process control systems enable manufacturers to collect statistical process control …

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