Critical Manufacturing

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Solar Industry faces challenges such as the reduction of production cost, material traceability and an aggressive efficiency improvement roadmap. All in one, the effort to decrease operational costs and increase productivity cannot be achieved without a fully integrated manufacturing execution solution. It must be flexible, reliable and designed for this specific industry segment: cmNavigo Productivity Suite.

cmNavigo Productivity Suite Solar Edition

Critical Manufacturing solution based on cmNavigo Productivity Suite is prepared to fulfill the demanding challenges of crystalline silicon photovoltaics industry, from Crystallization to final Module Assembly.

The specificities of CPV and the diverse Thin-Film manufacturing processes are also covered with cmNavigo Productivity Suite Solar Edition.

Following some examples of specific solutions for the solar market:

fabLIVE and Dashboards

Detailed visualization of the different production lines. Have one fabLive that aggregates the full productive flow, or one for each distinguished line. Zooming capability enables different levels of detail. The perfect combination with Dashboards allows a configurable level of detail that can go up to the cell level tracking.

Reporting and Data Warehouse

Set of reports prepared for Solar standard indicators, such as OEE, Yield, Material distribution, Breakage trend, Paste consumption, etc. Existing reports can be adapted and new ones created on-the-fly. A Data Warehouse is pre-configured with several data aggregations.

Advanced Layout and Printing

Create context-sensitive labels and lot travelers, used to identify different materials at the diverse process steps, from Crystallization to the final shipping area. Automatically generate and print labels that can be used to identify individual modules

Materials, Containers, Resources

Hierarchical objects to allow different levels of material tracking, model every single intervenient at the process of manufacturing solar modules. Crucibles, containers, trays or boxes are all traceable in cmNavigo. Full online traceability allows fast identification of materials used at each cell, module or panel.

Bill Of Materials and Assemble

Define all components used to produce a cell or a module. Depending on the traceability requirements, Silicon or GaAs and other type of raw materials like front glass or printing paste can be associated to the respective order and are traceable in the system. The same is valid to track lot numbers for materials such as frames, wires, junction boxes and others.

Engineering Data Collection

Fully integrated with other modules such as SPC or Exception Management, data can be collected in a job-like (long running) scenario at the Wafer or Cell line or manually at some Assembly steps. Collect process data and associate it directly with the respective production order.

Routing and Dispatching

Easy setup of new products. Use the fully configurable and service oriented Dispatching to automatically sort consumables, cells or modules.

Maintenance Management

Fully integrated usage or time-based based maintenance allows a precise definition of maintenance activities. Increase the line uptime with proper maintenance scheduling.

Electronic Failure Catalogue

More than a simple image storage and catalogue system, it enables the association of failure images to specific reasons. Images collected from the metrology systems can be automatically collected and associated to a specific cell failure (e.g. micro cracks, coating defects, shades, etc). Also useful to store results from ingot 3D inspection, electroluminescence or sun simulator tests.