(Source: Business Wire)
Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Q-Cells SE (QCE; ISIN
DE0005558662), the world's largest solar cell manufacturer, has selected
Camstar's SolarSuite, configured for the Solar industry on the Camstar
Enterprise Platform, to drive down cost per watt through improved
process quality and cell efficiency. Q-Cells will deploy the solution in
two new production lines in Bitterfeld-Thalheim, Germany, and in its new
factory in Malaysia where production will exceed 300MW (peak) by the end
of 2010.
Q-Cells selected SolarSuite over competing options for its strong
"out-of-the-box" functionality that is designed specifically for and
widely used by Camstar's global customers in the Solar and Semiconductor
industries. In addition, in Q-Cells' environment of rapid process
improvement and frequent tool upgrades, the unique flexibility of
Camstar's platform enables rapid adaptation, global control and change
enforcement -- all critical to support Q-Cells' growth and quality goals.
"We are very pleased to be a strategic partner for Q-Cells as they
create the most modern, fully automated solar cell production lines in
the world," said Robert Rudder, Senior Vice President of Sales and
Marketing for Camstar. "We have made significant investment in our
enterprise platform as a seamless foundation for manufacturing
execution, quality management, and manufacturing intelligence. That
technology is delivering the ability not only to collect large
volumes of data from automated tools, but to quickly analyze and
immediately act upon that data for process improvement and increased
equipment efficiency -- driving real, measurable quality improvements
faster."
About Q-Cells SE
Founded in 1999, Q-Cells SE is today one of the world's biggest
manufacturers of solar cells. In 2008 the company, which currently
employs around 2,400 staff, produced mono- and multicrystalline solar
cells with expected total power of 570 Megawatt peak (MWp) and supplied
them to solar module producers around the world. More than 250
scientists and engineers at Q-Cells are working on further developing
the technology in order to attain the company's objective of rapidly and
permanently reducing the cost of photovoltaic and making the technology
affordable and competitive. As well as core business activities, since
mid-2008 several Q-Cells SE subsidiaries have been producing
photovoltaic modules on the basis of various thin-film technologies.
Q-Cells SE is building a production plant in Malaysia, has branches in
Hong Kong, China and Japan, is quoted on the Frankfurt stock exchange
(QCE; WKN 555866) and is listed in the German technology index, TecDAX. www.q-cells.com
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar software solutions include manufacturing execution, process
planning, enterprise quality management, and manufacturing intelligence.
Camstar has served customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor,
Arcelor, Beijing SE PMC, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar,
Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Life Technologies,
MiaSole, NXP, Pacific Biosciences, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Xilinx and
Zeiss. www.camstar.com
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