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Production Process Monitoring
Identify Quality Issues During PV and Battery Production
Proactively catching and preventing quality issues in your PV module and BOS components (modules, trackers, racking, inverters, transformers) and battery storage systems optimizes the performance and extends the lifetime of your products.
Manufacturers perform their own quality checks during production, but standards vary widely, and quality issues are extremely common even amongst Tier 1 suppliers. Finding issues during production and before the final product is packed is the surest way to fix the problems or replace the product, implement stricter production controls, and reduce the likelihood of defects being shipped.
Third-party oversight captures issues as they occur so they can be quickly resolved to prevent costly downstream errors such as:
Underperforming Assets
Missing Product / Material Certifications
Product Failure
Safety and Fire Risks
Comprehensive On-Site Monitoring of All Production Processes, Workshops, and Lines
CEA’s inline production process monitoring sends experienced quality control engineers to the manufacturing facilities during production of your product to verify BOM compliance, inspect manufacturing conditions, verify calibration of equipment, and monitor the production line for issues. CEA’s robust process monitoring can be calibrated and adjusted from as frequent as 24/7 monitoring to a cadence that satisfies your needs and budget.
When an issue is found, CEA immediately informs the factory to fix the issue on the spot. Every finding is recorded and classified according to its risk potential, and CEA follows up with the supplier on all issues that are not immediately solved.
CEA’s Production Process Monitoring covers:
BOM (Bill of Materials) Conformity To CDF
Incoming Materials Quality Control and Inspection
Equipment And Production Line Maintenance and Calibration
Inline QC Monitoring
Packaging And Warehouse Inspections
Industry-Leading Insights into Production Processes and Quality Standards
CEA’s comprehensive, supplier-independent production monitoring reduces quality defects in your final products and provides essential oversight into the day-to-day quality issues and risks occurring during manufacturing, providing need-to-know information on final product quality risks and production delays.
Through CEA’s Production Process Monitoring, you will gain:
Comprehensive weekly reports detailing every issue/risk identified according to severity, including which issues have been resolved. CEA continues to follow up with the supplier until all identified issues are resolved
Ongoing monitoring of production processes and rates, including production and shipment schedules or expected delays
Project Summary Report detailing the entire production, including issues found and resolved
Access to CEA’s on-the-ground technology and quality experts who work with the supplier to resolve issues
Detailed insights into the production process and quality standards for every step of production
Access to CEA’s proprietary software and tools for accessing and reporting on your project data over time