Award-winning system design

Optimization of costs and innovative industrial design fit together: for centrotherm photovoltaics AG, a world-wide leading company for photovoltaic technology and equipment, we developed a new overall product design. The reduced, modern concept of color and form convinces especially by its innovative combination of materials, contrasting different functional system units among each other. The quiet appearance underlines the systems‘ sublime quality and reliability.

A high-performance furnace for the energy-efficient firing and sintering of solar cells. The modular design impresses with its clear cubic shapes and striking material and color contrasts. Transparent safety glass doors allow optimum visual monitoring of the core processes. Innovative new features include the automatic opening of the drying chamber system to increase process reliability, an advanced heat recovery system and an integrated touchscreen with an ergonomically adaptable keypad. In addition to optimized user-friendliness, ambitious design-to-cost targets are at the heart of this development from the field of industrial design in collaboration with our product design agency.

Design-to-cost

The underlying approach of design-to-cost connects the optimal costs with supreme industrial design and user-friendly ergonomics. Design-to-cost means to take care of all single product parts while the whole process of development and to optimize them towards the best solution considering costs, design and quality. The first centrotherm photovoltaics systems, designed regarding this approach, have been delivered in 2011, having the new design and containing better technology.