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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Ensuring quality in the field
• Design
• Accelerated
Tests
• Certification
RPDM
• Supplier
quality
• Material
quality
control
Raw
materials
• Internal
qualification
• Process
control
• Quality and
SPC
Production
• Customer
claims
• Field
inspection
• Energy yield
&
performance
Customer
REC’s comprehensive feedback loop
REC has developed a field inspection method and tracks systems across the world in different
locations to ensure data collection on module performance and ensure understanding of
actual module performance in different environmental conditions and climate exposures.
This enables a better technological understanding of our products:
Validate known degradation mechanism and models and feeds back information into the
design and development process
Helps identify potential new phenomenon to develop mitigations.