SolarEdge maintains world-class quality across global factories with AI-powered visual inspection

SolarEdge was bringing up multiple new global factories to manufacture its flagship solar products with 12 to 25-year warranties, making quality and reliability paramount. They were concerned about not finding defects on time leading to escapes and rework, quality issues that were difficult and slow to root cause, and a lack of oversight over globally distributed factories.

SolarEdge deployed Instrumental's manufacturing AI and data platform with imaging stations strategically placed across factories in Asia, Europe, and the US. The platform provides global quality oversight and real-time visual analysis, using AI to automatically identify novel defects and intercept known failures on the line. Engineers can also program their own visual tests without needing specialized programming support.

Instrumental empowered SolarEdge to manage multiple factories while maintaining world-class quality and reliability standards. The team significantly reduced warranty and service costs, saved engineering time, established a real-time source of truth across all sites, and ensured global quality and reliability standards. Real-time operator feedback on the assembly line sped up ramp-up and reduced human error.

• AI-powered visual inspection enables non-specialist engineers to create and manage quality tests independently
• Cloud-based platforms provide critical remote oversight for globally distributed manufacturing operations
• Real-time operator feedback accelerates factory ramp-up and reduces human assembly errors