PVA Factory 4.0: a hardware-driven approach to assess, develop and qualify Industry 4.0 processes and means for the manufacturing of Photo Voltaic Assemblies

2019 European Space Power Conference (ESPC) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.1109/ESPC.2019.8932093

E. Dawidowicz, Christiaan Beljaars, Frédéric Maloron, Daniel Bouric, Mikael Thibaudeau

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This article presents the overall development philosophy followed to setup the PVA Factory 4.0, Thales Alenia Space (TAS) flagship for an Industry 4.0 production environment for the manufacturing and testing of Photo Voltaic Assemblies (PVA) in Belgium. Starting from a blank page, the process and means of this new facility were conceived and developed in a hardware-driven testing approach, relying on the extensive heritage of TAS for designing solar arrays and manufacturing of power electronics. Two main application cases have driven the development: (1) the heritage GEO PVA, which requires demonstrating equivalence to existing manufacturers solution in Fit-Form-Function. (2) “New Space” PVA with a requirement of high throughput, enabling a stronger design-for-manufacturing approach. This paper presents how we used a new way of assessing product quality inherited from other terrestrial industries, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), to orient the development of the various process and means required to launch this new activity at TAS.

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PVA工厂4.0:一种硬件驱动的方法，用于评估、开发和鉴定光伏组件制造的工业4.0流程和方法

本文介绍了在比利时为光伏组件(PVA)制造和测试提供工业4.0生产环境的泰雷兹阿莱尼亚空间(TAS)旗舰工厂PVA工厂4.0的总体开发理念。从一张白纸开始，这个新设施的过程和手段是在硬件驱动的测试方法中构思和开发的，依靠TAS在设计太阳能电池阵列和制造电力电子产品方面的广泛传统。两个主要的应用案例推动了发展:(1)传统的GEO PVA，它需要证明与现有制造商的Fit-Form-Function解决方案等效。(2)“新空间”PVA要求高吞吐量，实现更强的为制造而设计的方法。本文介绍了我们如何使用一种从其他地面工业继承下来的评估产品质量的新方法，即先进产品质量计划(APQP)，来指导TAS开展这项新活动所需的各种过程和手段的发展。

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