Featured in Lean machines – 09-2011

Perfect wafers

Automation in ingot processing: Efficient wafer production starts with the production of silicon bricks. Optimized production with highly stable quality cannot be realized without process automation and robotics, explains Peter Weier of Arnold Group.

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pv magazine

31 Aug 2011

Enormous investments in new machines and facilities are pending worldwide. With regard to the grid parity demanded, a change towards process-optimized production is clearly perceivable. Integrated and partially or fully automated production with high process reliability is becoming the strategic goal of market-leading manufacturers in order to counteract cost pressure. Different production steps are required …

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