Precise glueing of silicon bricks onto wire-saw beams is of high significance for wafer production. Only a constantly reproducible and durable adhesive bonded joint guarantees a high cutting yield in the later wafer cutting process. Arnold specialists are demonstrating the automated brick glueing process in their technology centre in Weilburg/Germany at a specially installed pilot production system for customised glueing process develop-ment. Individual appointments for interested customers are possible any time.
Arnold is a well-known automation specialist for the automotive- and photo-voltaic industry with comprehensive know-how for the overall optimization of the individual process steps of brick manufacturing – starting with cropping, grinding up to the automated brick glueing process. Depending on the customers requirements Arnold is offering a complete product line of automated glueing systems. Those are based on an industrial robot system with high accuracy as well as a highly precise adhesive dosing system for reproducible adhesive beads. Depending on the complexity and customer requirements, the basic system is completed with an automated cleaning unit, a brick commissioning storage for optimization of wire saw utilization and a storage unit for resting of glued bricks during curing. The system also allows the automation of the joining process of bricks with glass plate and wire saw beam.
With the new developed software tool AEPS (Arnold Easy Programming System) customer’s own system-supervisors and process technicians are now in the position to create and edit movement and process programs in an admissible range by themselves without expert programming knowledge of the individual system components. This is a unique tool to optimize the characteristic of glueing beads like robot velocity during the application or gluing bead thickness. Simply and safely by just selecting the required position at the central touchscreen, process or movement date can be added, deleted, moved or edited. No further expert knowledge in robot/SPS-programming is required.
