WT3600-Series
Automated Wafer Transfer and Buffer Station for Photovoltaic Silicon Wafers
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Extensive automation systems are essential for the economic production of solar cells and the necessary reduction of costs. SINGULUS offers fully automated wafer transfer and buffer stations for silicon wafers based photovoltaic production lines. The modular concept (versatile basic platform) allows connecting different types of production lines from different vendors. The system is able to cover batch and inline job floor concepts to optimize throughput. Multiple parallel incoming conveyors are possible. Clocked and continuous substrate flow is supported. A handling unit for transferring the wafers is build in the WT3600-Series. Integrated breakage detection systems and camera based positioning systems guarantee the correct wafer transfer and positioning. Buffer stations consisting of rotation tables are storing the wafers in a customer specified carrier system. The WT3600-Series can be configured as an input station with buffer, as an output station with buffer or as a transfer station with buffer. The input station picks up wafers from the integrated buffer and moves the wafers to the following system. The output station receives wafers from the output conveyor of the previous system and stores them into the integrated buffer. The transfer station takes wafers from the conveyors of the previous system and transfers them to the conveyors of the following system. Multiple parallel conveyors from the previous or following system can be served. |   Features
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