Written by: STATISTICA News 2/4/2009 8:43 PM
A Fresh Wind Blows in Alternative Energy was published in the February 2009 edition of Quality Digest. One of StatSoft's customers, SolarWorld Industries America, discusses how they automated their manufacturing of photovoltaic cells.
From the article:
To handle the expanding demand for [photovoltaic cells]... SolarWorld has increasingly moved to an automated manufacturing process; Coleman estimates that up to 90 percent the company’s processes are now automated. In a data-driven manufacturing environment such as this one, analyzing the information coming off of individual pieces of assembly equipment is of critical importance. SolarWorld’s manufacturing execution system (MES) takes the data from these automated processes and feeds them into the STATISTICA software program from StatSoft Inc. STATISTICA allows SolarWorld to look at control charts, capability studies, and other statistical analyses.
To handle the expanding demand for [photovoltaic cells]...
SolarWorld has increasingly moved to an automated manufacturing process; Coleman estimates that up to 90 percent the company’s processes are now automated. In a data-driven manufacturing environment such as this one, analyzing the information coming off of individual pieces of assembly equipment is of critical importance. SolarWorld’s manufacturing execution system (MES) takes the data from these automated processes and feeds them into the STATISTICA software program from StatSoft Inc. STATISTICA allows SolarWorld to look at control charts, capability studies, and other statistical analyses.