Cognex solutions can detect, identify and track every step of the solar manufacturing process.
Solar manufacturers and machine manufacturers rely on Cognex vision technology to complete the solar photovoltaic panel (PV) production chain, from wafer processing to PV cell manufacturing and module assembly. Cognex vision system can perform accurate calibration and inspection of materials at every stage of the PV manufacturing process. Image-based industrial barcode readers can identify and track wafers and PV cells along the supply chain until the final module assembly. Vision tools can find features of wafers, dies, and packages under extremely harsh conditions, and can detect low-contrast and disturbing images, changing reference patterns, and other component changes.
Cognex can handle a wide range of applications in the manufacturing of solar PV cells and modules, including:
Solar manufacturers and machine manufacturers rely on Cognex vision technology to complete the solar photovoltaic panel (PV) production chain, from wafer processing to PV cell manufacturing and module assembly. Cognex vision system can perform accurate calibration and inspection of materials at every stage of the PV manufacturing process. Image-based industrial barcode readers can identify and track wafers and PV cells along the supply chain until the final module assembly. Vision tools can find features of wafers, dies, and packages under extremely harsh conditions, and can detect low-contrast and disturbing images, changing reference patterns, and other component changes.
Cognex can handle a wide range of applications in the manufacturing of solar PV cells and modules, including:
- Chip and edge damage detection
- Finger electrode quality inspection
- Bus quality inspection
- Color consistency measurement
- Coating quality inspection
- Calibration before solder paste screen printing and string soldering assembly
- Identification and tracking capabilities
Wafer processing, inspection and identification
Wafers are also called slices or substrates, which are thin slices of semiconductor material used to make solar photovoltaic panels that convert light energy into electrical energy. Machine vision can perform wafer processing on its own; achieve accurate calibration; and inspect the bus AR coating to create thin, high-quality wafers with small spacing. Quality inspection can help manufacturers avoid wafer deformation, flipping, chipping, including tooth marks or showing contour defects.
Solar PV cell manufacturing
Cognex machine vision can monitor and inspect wet processing, metallization, firing and color separation to achieve high-quality PV cell manufacturing. The industry-leading machine vision software can detect battery defects in battery orientation, calibrate PV cells for screen printing; detect battery edges with laser edge isolation; and perform back-side printing and front-side printing login detection.
