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Aurora Solar Technologies (TSXV:ACU; OTCBB:AACTF) has announced a new product, Veritas Insight, which will help the company’s mission of creating a fully integrated quality control system for its solar cell manufacturing industry. As quoted in the press release: Designed for use in PERC and other high-efficiency cell production lines, VeritasTM Insight directly addresses the growing challenges …
Aurora Solar Technologies (TSXV:ACU; OTCBB:AACTF) has announced a new product, Veritas Insight, which will help the company’s mission of creating a fully integrated quality control system for its solar cell manufacturing industry.
As quoted in the press release:
Designed for use in PERC and other high-efficiency cell production lines, VeritasTM Insight directly addresses the growing challenges facing cell manufacturers in characterizing and controlling production variation. These variations cause yield limitations and profit loss, and can introduce excess warranty liabilities, due to poor electrical performance and other variances in finished cells. The effects can also be seen in the often-lengthy time it takes to bring new high-efficiency production lines up to speed, resulting in many weeks of sub-optimal performance.
Leveraging extensive research and experience with actual solar cell production line variance and their root causes, VeritasTM Insight directly addresses these problems. Surpassing traditional Statistical Process Control methods, it detects and interprets complex process deviations or faults that cannot be directly discerned, but cause protracted declines in average efficiency or costly quality issues in the field. It reveals causal relationships between finished cell electrical variations and controllable upstream fabrication process variations in real-time. This allows production personnel to see, understand and manage tradeoffs and fluctuations as these occur in production. VeritasTM Insight provides these benefits with end-of-line cell performance alone or in combination with other production line measurements.
“Manufacturers urgently need to make use of the powerful information embedded within the enormous quantity of production data being generated as the industry scales to hundreds of gigawatts of annual production,” stated Gordon Deans, Aurora’s Chief Operating Officer. “This is especially vital for high-efficiency cell designs such as PERC, bifacial, heterojunction and other technologies. VeritasTM Insight now serves this need by transforming this valuable stream of data into actionable information to boost manufacturing yield and detect hidden process behaviour that affects product quality.”
