Featured in The Quality Issue – 04-2019

Quality on the line

With competition on the module market as cutthroat as ever, manufacturers are increasingly looking to emphasize the quality and reliability of their products and services as a differentiator. pv magazine investigates what’s behind some of these claims, and the move from manufacturers to more sophisticated quality assurance methods.

By

Mark Hutchins

02 Apr 2019

While EL testing on cells and modules provides reassurance to manufacturers, warranty issurance providers need to check and audit production lines for themselves. | Image: Isra Vision

It’s a tactic employed by a number of manufacturers in the PV module market today: ‘Thanks to stringent internal quality assurance, our modules have an industry leading low rate of product warranty claims’. But is there more to the claim than pure marketing?A typical warranty today covers around 80% of a module’s initial performance for …

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