Quality Beyond Expectations
Table Of Contents
- Slide Number 1
- Contents
- Introduction
- REC Group – A leading, global solar company
- Vertically integrated manufacturing
- REC’s competitive advantage – minimum transport
- Slide Number 7
- Product Qualification and Testing
- International standards
- Certification results above industry standards
- Pushing the standards
- What is REC’s Combined Cycle Test?
- Internal qualification results above IEC standards
- REC goes further - Extended Qualification
- Extended qualification results double IEC Standards
- How does REC carry out its qualification?
- REC’s internal laboratory
- Other signs of quality
- Environmental and Quality Standards
- Slide Number 20
- Ensuring quality in the field
- REC’s test systems
- Proven performance in India
- Proven performance in Singapore
- Proven performance in Europe
- Reliability and Durability Model (RAD)
- Predicting and analysing degradation using models
- Slide Number 28
- Foundations for quality
- RBS and RPDM supporting quality and predictability
- RBS controls quality through all key inputs
- A highly automated manufacturing process
- In-process automated checks
- Slide Number 34
- Third party bankability audits
- Black & Veatch conclusions
- Mott MacDonald conclusions
- Summary of report findings*
- Slide Number 39
- The REC warranty
- REC’s low customer claims level is evidence of quality
- REC takes warranty claims seriously
- Summary
- Slide Number 44
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Pushing the standards
Test
IEC 61215
& IEC 61730
UL 1703 REC
Mechanical load 5400 Pa
5400 Pa
(Rated to 3600 Pa)
Test to failure
Modules are tested in
excess of 10,000 Pa
Thermal cycling 200 cycles 200 cycles 400 cycles
Damp heat 1000 hours n/a 2000 hours
Humidity freeze 10 cycles 10 cycles
20 cycles to 40 cycles
(dependent on component change)
Reverse current overload
135 % of series fuse
rating current
135 % of series fuse
rating current
135 % of series fuse
rating current
UV 20 kWh pre-conditioning NA
30 kWh pre-conditioning
Component level testing
of UV for reliability
Combined cycle n/a n/a 2 cycles
REC is not satisfied with simply passing the standards, so has created its own
stringent internal testing procedure. The table below shows how REC’s stringent
internal qualification protocol compares to international standards: