Crossing installs tracking system for Taiwanese solar firm

Crossing Automation has completed installation of a material tracking system for a Taiwanese solar cell manufacturer. It consists of its Auto ID and automated tracking system software, Smart Storage asset tracking and Smart Storage racks. As part of the project, Crossing developed customized ATS software for solar cell carriers throughout the fab, carrier racks were incorporated with additional sensors to ensure proper placement on the rack, and the solar rack design and the layout itself was developed with input from the customer.

The complete installation allows the fab to track solar cell lots by performance and efficiency, maintain production records for quality, reduce time for manually tagging carriers and eliminate binning errors.

With radio frequency identification carrier large read/write capability and tracking from HOST computer, cell carriers are managed for assignment to the next production step.