Guest Article
Guest Article
Growatt Embraces Smart Manufacturing with Its New Facility
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Growatt celebrating 10 years of Trust, partnership and Commited towards Greener world with one of the biggest String Inverters manufacturing facility of 20GW yearly production plant Set-up in year 2021. In 2021, Growatt Smart Factory will be officially put into production, which can provide 20GW of production capacity for global customers every year . Huizhou Smart Factory covers an area of 200,000 square meters, including material warehouses, production workshops and finished products warehouses. It creatively proposed and applied platformbased factory design concepts, and established a smart factory system with automated production, intelligent logistics and information management. The new Growatt manufacturing center introduces a series of modern manufacturing management systems, with the incorporation of varied data management tools and cloud-based technologies, to implement production automation and management digitalization. This includes the deployment of new intelligent production equipment, highly automated inspection facilities, integrated management systems and an advanced unmanned warehouse system. The new manufacturing center practices a One-Piece Flow production process to ensure continuous high-quality production from PCBA to final package on one production line. To further enhance the efficiency and flexibility of the production process, Growatt adopts a distributed warehouse system to provide nearby materials and storage while reducing the time consumption of materials
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transportation. The use of intelligent AGVs also significantly reduces manual errors and improves the accuracy of data management. Furthermore, industrial leading ESOP and MES systems enable comprehensive, dynamic, and integrated management, which allows monitoring, tracking, documenting and control from raw materials to finished products. In addition to the modern production management system, Growatt has world-class manufacturing facilities, including Class 100,000 SMT cleanrooms, fully-automated solder paste printing, AOI inspection and conformal coating equipment, to ensure quality and efficiency of the final product to the greatest extent. In terms of warehouse transportation and management, Growatt is one of the pioneers to realize unmanned transportation between workshops and warehouses, as well as self-check-in and self-check-out of inventories. Growatt’s new manufacturing center is an embodiment of modern high-intelligence, high-automation, and high-digital manufacturing.
Industry-Leading 20GW Production Capacity
The manufacturing center covers an area of 200,000 sqm, with a construction area of 120,000 sqm. Advanced production lines of single-phase and three-phase inverters, hybrid inverters, off-grid inverters, storage batteries are deployed at the facility. Its annual production capacity reaches up to 1.5 million units with a total output of 20GW. With the new manufacturing center put into production, Growatt will continue to provide high-quality products, flexible delivery and sufficient capacity to meet growing global market demand and to provide clear and convenient access to green energy for households and businesses worldwide. ||www.renewablemirror.com||
