IoTReadyTraceable Quality
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Industry

Solar

Every module carries a serial for twenty-five years of warranty, so the trail is a contractual requirement and the only question is what it costs to capture.

Sector
Energy
Solution
Inventory Management

Overview

Module-level traceability is already a contractual requirement. The choice is whether it comes off the line as production runs, or gets reconstructed from spreadsheets when a warranty claim arrives.

Workflow

Receiving, processing, dispatching

The three acts every inventory operation reduces to. Each step below is a point where identity, quantity or context gets captured.

  1. Receiving

    Cells, glass, backsheet and frame, received against a lot.

    1. Scan the incoming lot barcode on the pallet
    2. Weigh and dimension the pallet to verify against the packing list
    3. Bind supplier lot to internal lot at the point of receipt
    4. Quarantine on receipt until incoming inspection releases the lot

  2. Processing

    Stringing to lamination, with module serials born on the line.

    1. Print and apply the module serial at the layup station
    2. Bind cell lot, glass lot and encapsulant lot to the module serial
    3. Record flash test class and power bin against the serial
    4. Route rework by scan so the genealogy survives the detour

  3. Dispatching

    Palletisation and despatch to the project.

    1. Scan each module onto its pallet to build the pallet manifest
    2. Weigh and dimension the pallet for the freight declaration
    3. Issue the despatch manifest with serials, bins and pallet identities
    4. Hand the project the serial list it will need at commissioning

What it runs on

All hardware
IoTReady QR & Barcode Scanner sensor head with its DB9 RS232 cableHardwareQR & Barcode ScannerA fixed-mount, IP68 scanner that reads every common 1D and 2D code over one RS232 cable, built for washdown lines a handheld will not survive.IoTReady label controller with a four-line display and keypad on a post above an Essae bench scale holding a packed bag, next to an Argox barcode printerHardwareLabel Management & Printing StationPuts an existing weighing scale and an off-the-shelf barcode printer under one central label catalogue, so the price and the weight on the label are the ones the system holds today.

Next step

Tell us what you are trying to trace.

Describe the flow: what arrives, what happens to it and what leaves. We will tell you what it takes to capture it.

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