manz - passion for efficiency

Our customers are the ones who can truly profit from the benefits of this long-term experience: Manz has well-engineered, advanced and innovative solutions at its disposal for handling glass substrates, which are primarily characterized by the low level of maintenance they require and their high level of process stability.

The equipment’s low operating costs and high productivity – as a result of low tact times and minimal breakage rates – both play significant roles in contributing to a successful manufacturing process.

Our automation solutions, which were developed, together with the Fraunhofer Institute, especially for use in clean-rooms, have become a well-known and established part of the photovoltaic industry over the past few years.

• Handling of all major substrates for thin-film solar modules with 6-axis robots
• Buffer systems
• Conveyor systems
• Loading and unloading of trolleys

Our newly developed concept of a central automation corridor for Fab automation provides many advantages:

• Saving of storage space due to „chaotic storage“
• Higher flexibility: the central robot unit reaches every substrate cassette very quickly. This leads to shorter cycle times.
• Cost advantage: The substrates in the cassette can be purged with dry air or inert gas in the cassette buffers. Thus, the storage time between the single process steps can be extended.
• The central automation corridor is modular and can be extended as required. It can also be applied to different glass sizes.