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SOLAR AWARDS
PV Process Subsystem / Monitoring Award
Applied Materials
greater productivity. Equipment manufacturing, packaging, material
performance tracking (EPT) monitors handling and assembly.
The Applied E3 System every processing tool in the factory and
provides visual and statistical reporting
The ‘Applied E3’ advanced equipment tools to identify bottlenecks and improve
Eyelit Inc
and process control solution, is intended factory performance. The ‘Eyelit Manufacturing solution
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to be a comprehensive factory automation
(FA) software package for improving the The Applied E3 system is part of a broad The ‘Eyelit Manufacturing’ solution
productivity and reducing the costs of portfolio of manufacturing automation delivers a full featured, technically
semiconductor, flat panel display and solutions and services designed to help advanced manufacturing execution
photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing. The companies improve their factories’ system (MES), asset management,
modular packages utilise proprietary productivity and reduce costs by product costing, plant-level connectivity
algorithms that are claimed to boost managing, controlling and automating all hub, and broad spectrum of other
-pv-management.com process capability by >30 percent, aspects of their factory and tool essential functionality. By giving clear
reduce unscheduled downtime, and operations. insight into production process efficiency,
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shorten cycle time to achieve up to a 20 performance/equipment efficiency,
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percent increase in overall equipment inventory control and resource
effectiveness.
Adept Technology
management along with the ability to
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automatically react to conditions in any
Applied Materials said the system has
Quattro s650 robot
factory system, Eyelit Manufacturing suite
already been employed by multiple major enables customers to coordinate, control,
manufacturers and is currently being used The Quattro robot is claimed to be the and respond to changing demands in
in volume production. Using graphical world’s fastest robot with over 200 production.
development environment and pre- systems sold worldwide. The Bernoulli
configured modules the Applied E3 gripper combined with the Quattro robot Eyelit say their solution enables solar
solution is claimed to be quick to deploy creates an effective method for start-ups to begin with a low-cost
and easy to update and extend, offering a manipulating solar cells without the investment, yet provides the needed
faster and more cost-effective route to potential for product damage. Automating infrastructure to scale with Eyelit’s broad
raise factory output. Equipment solar cell inspection has proven to be an set of functionality and copy-smart
automation, data collection and logic effective way to increase yields and capability. Their cover a broad set of
handling simplify the construction, reduce in-process scrap. Integrating manufacturing solutions, including
deployment, and maintenance of inspection with automated handling is the Manufacturing Execution (MES), Asset
automated process control (APC) next step in improving production Management (Semi E10), Factory
applications. Fault detection and efficiencies and continuing the trend Integration (Automation), Supply Chain
classification (FDC) collects and analyzes towards lower cost solar cells. Execution, Quality Management
equipment parameters to provide rapid (CAPA/OCAP/SPC/APC), and Business
feedback on process performance issues The Adept Quattro s650 parallel robot is Process Management. These are
and avoid unexpected failures that specifically designed for high-speed designed to allow customers to rapidly
decrease productivity. manufacturing, packaging, material and cost-effectively optimize production
handling and assembly. It is the only and company processes.
robot in the world that features a unique
four-arm rotational platform designed for All Eyelit Manufacturing operations are
maximum speed, maximum acceleration managed using an advanced interactive
and exceptional performance across the interface that sets up in seconds. This
entire work envelope, according to the Interactive Performance Monitor (IPM)
company. allows users to configure logical
representations of their production
Run-to-run control (R2R) uses patented Additionally, the powerful embedded operations and any resources within it.
feedback algorithms to reduce process amplifiers and compact controls make The IPM is completely personalized and
variability by adjusting processing installation easy and enable saved can accommodate any process so that
parameters in real time, enabling more workspace. The product users get more correct, detailed and
consistent output, higher yield and is specifically designed for high-speed relevant information, as well as complete
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