Featured in Lean machines – 09-2011

Educating customers and learning from them

Backsheets: Michele Vannini from Coveme focuses on PV backsheet manufacturing and uses the company as a case study to examine testing methods, advances in materials, and the relationship between backsheet manufacturers and their customers. Moreover, he highlights the importance of educating customers about specific testing methods and the shortcomings of each, with a focus on maintaining and improving standards and avoiding cutting corners.

PV modules are generally expected to generate power for more than 25 years. The generation of power has to be reliable as well as safe. In order to achieve this objective, the active material of the module, the semiconductor layers or cells, are embedded in a package of non-active materials such as glass and polymer …

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