Solar Process Heat for Sustainable Automobile Manufacturing

Consideration of Sustainable Manufacturing in Chinese Automobile Industry: Framework & Priorities

In order to safeguard the future of Chinese automobile industry, and maintain and strengthen its acceptance in Chinese community, it should be made a commitment to sustainability. The approaches to sustainability in Chinese automobile industry should comprise three aspects: nature conservation, production-related environmental protection and “5R” implementation which is considered as sustainabl...

Process analytics formalism for decision guidance in sustainable manufacturing

This paper introduces National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Sustainable Process Analytics Formalism (SPAF) to facilitate the use of simulation and optimization technologies for decision support in sustainable manufacturing. SPAF allows formal modeling of modular, extensible, and reusable process components and enables sustainability performance prediction, what-if analysis, an...

Process Monitoring in Solar Cell Manufacturing

Integrated Product and Process Control for Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing

Semiconductor fabrication is a manufacturing sequence with hundreds of sophisticated unit operations and it is always challenged by strategy development for ensuring the yield of defect-free products. In this paper, an advanced control strategy through integrating product and process control is established. The proposed multiscale scheme contains three layers for coordinated equipment control, ...

PV-Reflectometer: a Process Monitoring Tool for Solar Cell Manufacturing

A new instrument is described for in-line monitoring of various process steps in silicon solar-cell fabrication. This system can rapidly measure a host of parameters that describe the front-surface and the back-surface properties of a wafer/cell. The measured parameters represent values averaged over the entire wafer/cell, making it suitable for monitoring process steps in a solar cell manufact...