Solar

Schmalz products comply with the highest standards of quality and permit decisive productivity increases in the solar industry.
Highly qualified staff members, long-term industry experience, and an extensive supplier network with subsidiaries all over the world guarantee quick and professional assistance for our domestic and foreign customers in the solar industry.

The Highlights Include:

• Safe and careful gripping, handling and positioning of raw wafers and cells, leaving only a slight impression


• Safe and careful gripping of raw wafers and cells during unstacking, buffering, and bifurcation, leaving only a slight impression


• Secure fixing with minimal risk of conchoidal fracture and excellent take-up of lateral forces


• Highest possible acceleration (>10 g) and quickest cycle times without shear stress or contamination


• Safe gripping, precise, anti-rotation positioning and heat-resistant fixing of the busbar


• Suction pad supporting structure facilitates minimal shearing force, wide sealing lip for cover electrode structure and height compensation for the concave PV cell surface


• Suction pad covers allow for goods to be handled without leaving a mark


• Special suction pad supporting structure enables protective handling of even the thinnest glass


• Take-up of strong lateral forces during processing allows for safe handling on the (partially) rounded back of the module

Particular Industry Requirements are:

• Lifting wafers and, if necessary, rounded cells on and off of conveyor belts without causing conchoidal fractures or abrasion


• Unstacking (with separation) of c-Si raw wafers with a width of < 180 ìm without causing damage to the microstructure or leaving a chemical residue


• Drying wafers with highly structured surfaces by mechanical stripping


• Handling wafers and cells with the shortest possible cycle times with a line output of 3,600 pieces per second


• Unstacking, inspection and positioning


• Handling and fixing the busbar and removing it from rollers during the stringer soldering process and automatic string cross-tie soldering


• Lifting complete strings or matrices with an even alignment for inspection and/or precise lifting into the EVA film bed.


• Handling and fixing solar glass and solar modules on the “sunny” side when moving or positioning


• Handling and fixing solar models during processing stages such as film cutting and framing

Vacuum Components

Automated Handling of PV Wafers with the SWG Wafer gripper

The Schmalz wafer gripper SWG is specially designed and developed for the solar industrie. The wafer gripper can be used for the whole process of wafer and cell handling

Automated Handling of PV Wafers with the SWGm Wafer Gripper

The Wafer Gripper SWGm was developed for the photovoltaics industry. The Wafer Gripper is used for accurate, damage-proof and contamination-free handling of wafers at cycle times of less than 1 second.

Vacuum Gripping Systems

Two gripper variants for manual and automated string handling

With the Schmalz Stringgripper SSG-M for manual string handling strings can can be taken out of the process carefully to be worked on and then brought back to the production line again.

Safe Handling of Solar Glass and Solar Modules

The application describes the safe handling of solar glass and solar modules. The partly at the back side curved solar glass modules are fixed by using the vacuum technology for further processing stages such as framing and film cutting.

Vacuum Handling Systems

Vacuum Lifting Device VacuMaster Basic Streamlines Logistical Work Processes During the Production of Photovoltaic Systems

The vacuum lifting devices VacuMaster can swivel 90° and makes it possible to place the plastic sheets on an upright panel transport trolley.

Ergonomic Handling of flat-plate collectors with the Vacuum Tube Lifter JumboErgo

The vacuum tube lifter JumboErgo with pneumatic swivelling unit for loads of up to 70 kg is used to safely rotate the collectors by 90° and then set them down. The tube lifter is equipped with a quadruple suction pad, which can be flexibly adapted to different collector formats.