XI’AN, China, January 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (LONGi), the headquarters of the world’s largest manufacturer of photovoltaic solar panels in Xi’an, China today announced that its Jiaxing production base has been recognized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Global Headlight Factorythe world’s first solar module manufacturing base joining the WEF’s Global Lighthouse Network (GLN).
The global lighthouse network is an initiative of the World Economic Forum. It was co-founded with McKinsey & Company and is governed by an advisory board comprised of industry leaders who work together to shape the future of global manufacturing. The factories and value chains that join the network are designated by a panel of independent experts. Of the December 14, 2023in total, 153 “Lighthouse Factories” were selected worldwide, and China has 62 “flagship factories”, accounting for 40% of the global total, ranking first in the world.
As LONGi is one of the 21 new flagships in the world, WEF remarked on LONGi’s manufacturing competitiveness: “With a number of intelligent technologies, LONGi’s Jiaxing production base has developed and implemented more than 30 digital technologies to promote smart manufacturing, many of them the first industry-agnostic patented technologies, reducing unit manufacturing costs by 28% in one year and reducing yield loss. It is reduced by 43%, the production delivery cycle is reduced by 84%, and the unit energy consumption is reduced by 20%. »
The essence of Global Headlight Factory is a digital transformation of production. The core is the strategic capability to build an intelligent manufacturing system. Through the extensive application of digital technologies such as automation, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data analytics, 5G, etc., it can improve resource demand, resource management flexible planning and production, transportation logistics, customer service and other full-fledged values. chain systems for Lean management.
LONGi is committed to becoming an advocate, practitioner and leader of sustainability in the global clean energy space. Through continuous technology R&D and innovation iteration, the company can improve the conversion efficiency of solar cells, reduce the cost of photovoltaic power generation, achieve cost reduction and increase in efficiency across the sector and help achieve global energy transformation and carbon neutrality goals. LONGi Jiaxing production base was selected as a global flagship factory, which provides strong proof of LONGi’s technological leadership in the world.
(1) Flexible automation enabled by artificial intelligence and machine vision
By optimizing processes and collaboration with suppliers, combined with AI visual positioning and other technologies, LONGi Jiaxing production base overcomes 7 automation problems of the photovoltaic module industry, such as processes of lamination and assembly, making the whole line process stable and the best in the industry.
(2) Complete AI-based visual process inspection, precise traceability, root causes and action recommendations
The LONGi Jiaxing production base achieves comprehensive coverage of 20 processes and deploys a total of 784 cameras, collecting tens of thousands of point data. The AI-powered process can display abnormal change trends and generate change trends of covered processes in real time to help decision-makers make quick decisions. It can analyze the causes of different types of hidden cracks and weld defects and recommend the best solution combined with an expert knowledge system to quickly deal with anomalies.
In addition, the AI-based process can accurately identify more than 1,000 image features on the cell string, and through feature similarity calculation, complete the identification of source machine information of 12 strings of cells every 18 seconds, replacing the traceability of the original virtual code.
(3) Intelligent order production delivery cycle management
LONGi Jiaxing production base has introduced more than 20 digital underutilization cases throughout the production, warehousing and logistics value chain, rebuilds the end-to-end business process, greatly improves the efficiency of warehousing and logistics, achieves full traceability of logistics links and shortens lead times. order cycle, ensure on-time delivery and improve customer satisfaction.
(4) AI-powered solar cell resource matching and dynamic correction
LONGi Jiaxing Production Base deployed the industry’s first self-developed AI intelligent solar cell production plan calculation system to calculate the optimal production plan to achieve accurate module power delivery and reduce losses power to meet customer needs. LONGi believes that accurate module power delivery is of great importance for cost control. After better allocation of each efficiency cell sheet in AI intelligence, module power that meets customer needs is produced, thereby reducing energy waste and cell cost.
“Innovation is at the heart of the competitiveness of companies and the inexhaustible driving force of their sustainable development. In the photovoltaic industry, technological innovation capability is particularly important,” said Zhong Baoshen, President of LONGi. “It is necessary to accelerate the intelligentization and digitalization of the company through The Global Lighthouse Network initiated by the WEF, which are important for the transformation and upgrading of the photovoltaic manufacturing industry in general.
About LONGi
Founded in 2000, LONGi is committed to being the global leader in solar technology, focusing on customer-driven value creation for comprehensive energy transformation.
Under its mission of “making the most of solar energy to build a green world”, LONGi has devoted itself to technological innovation and established five business sectors, covering mono silicon wafers cells and modules, commercial and industrial distributed solar solutions, green energy solutions And hydrogen equipment. The company has advanced its capabilities to deliver green energy and has, more recently, also adopted green hydrogen products and solutions to support carbon-free global development. www.longi.com
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