The stringer and laminator usually set the line rate. Read comparing cell stringer throughput and specifying a PV module laminator before you accept any integrator's balance. Ask each bidder to show where visual inspection sits before and after lamination, and how a rejected module leaves the line without stopping it. Finally, request the serial-number flow from stringer to pallet label, so every module can be traced back to its cell lot and laminator cycle; the guide to traceability and MES interfaces lists the records to ask for. Camera stations for string, label and frame checks are covered in machine vision for PV equipment, and factory and site acceptance trials explains how to split station checks from the full-line run.
Plan the equipment scope
For solar panel production lines, begin your enquiry with cell technology, module recipe, factory layout and intended production schedule. Request a configuration-specific quotation and agree on station-by-station capacity, utilities, buffers, commissioning and line acceptance. Each listing shows the published values and the questions to confirm.
HORAD designs custom PV module lines, semi-automatic or fully automatic, including factory layout, equipment placement and line planning. The stations come from HORAD's own catalogue: glass and film handling, string layup, lamination, framing, junction box, labeling, test interfaces and packing. No fixed line capacity is published; each line is sized to your module and plant.
HORAD offers a complete perovskite PV line, from glass loading and cleaning through sputtering, coating, vacuum deposition and annealing to lamination, framing, junction box, testing and packing. HORAD quotes line capacity from 200 MW to 1 GW and module sizes 400–600 mm wide and 1200–2550 mm long, for flexible, glass and BIPV products.
HORAD's packing line turns finished PV modules into strapped, protected and wrapped shipment units. Its stations include loading with barcode scanning, flipping, long-edge, short-edge or flat strapping, wooden-pallet loading, metal-pallet unloading, corner and edge protectors, film covering and wrapping, pallet stacking and a manual boxing station. Each line is put together from this list.
HORAD's sorting system takes finished modules, reads the grade already assigned to each one and sets it down in the matching position: flat, standing on its long side or standing on its short side. Servo axes do the positioning. The frame measures 12800 × 4950 × 4100 mm, weighs 8.5 T and draws 16 kW. Send your grade codes and pallet drawings to get a quote.
HORAD's corner station feeds protectors from a silo at each corner and fits all four at once in a 12-second cycle, with a wrapping yield HORAD puts at 99.9% or better. It handles kraft, white and corrugated paper protectors on modules 1650–2520 mm long. Send protector and frame drawings so fit, coverage and hold can be trialled on your packing line.
HORAD's labeling station prints and applies two labels per module: a barcode on the edge frame and a nameplate barcode on the backplate, using two printers and servo placement. HORAD quotes at least 99.5% utilization, a 6 kW load and a 2.6 T frame. Send label artwork, media and the serial source so both labels carry the same module identity.
HORAD's tooling circulation line fits crossbar test tooling onto each panel ahead of inspection, lifts it off after the downstream station and sends it back for the next module. The machine runs on 380 V with 20 kW and weighs 2.2 T. It moves tooling only; electrical test ranges, jig stock, contact life and cycle time are figures to request from HORAD for your own tester and module sizes.
HORAD's capping station snaps lids onto module junction boxes with two robots, one placing parts while the other caps. The robots use pressure-sensing feedback for closed-loop pressing, and each lid is checked by vacuum, an upper camera and a side reinspection camera. Boxes on modules 1650 to 2550 mm long can be capped; the station weighs 1.7 T and runs on AC380 V at 5 kW.
Sold as a curing system, this HORAD unit picks modules with clamps or suction cups and stacks them in a staggered pattern on servo axes while sealant sets. HORAD says both pickup methods suit framed and double-glass modules. It draws 11 kW at 380 V, takes panels from 1650 to 2550 mm long and needs 0.5–0.8 MPa air.
LEAD's PV module manufacturing solution joins factory planning, cell stringing and line integration in one offer. LEAD lists compatibility with TOPCon, XBC and HJT, for cell sizes of 156 to 230 mm. Its picture is a line layout rather than a single stringer, so request a station list and line balance worked out for your own module design.
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Selection guide
A module production-line quotation is a system proposal. It should define the module recipe, station boundaries and integration responsibilities. A headline annual capacity can conceal different shift schedules, module formats, availability assumptions and supply boundaries.
Inputs to prepare before shortlisting
Product and schedule
State cell technology, module size, interconnection and production mix. Define shifts, operating days and planned changeovers used for the capacity calculation.
Station and layout map
List stringing, layup, lamination, handling and inspection stations with buffers. Mark existing equipment and define the machine and software interfaces.
Scope and service
Request installation utilities, commissioning, operator training, spares and acceptance responsibilities. Identify exclusions and third-party systems explicitly.
Make quotations comparable
Compare station-by-station capacities and identify the proposed bottleneck on the same product mix. Request the line-balance calculation and buffer assumptions. Distinguish a turnkey line from a set of individual machines with customer-managed integration.
Plan the acceptance test
Agree both station checks and a complete-line production run with representative modules. Measure accepted output over the agreed duration and record interruptions, reject definitions and changeovers. Allocate responsibility for interface faults that remain open after installation.
Avoid this comparison mistake
Calculate annual module output from the whole line, not from one stringer speed or a sample layout. Require the schedule and availability assumptions behind the proposal.