Retrofitting and repurposing of a 15-year-old roll to roll coater
The GP Plasma team resurrected and reconditioned a 15-year-old roll-to-roll coater to deposit state of the art coatings for the photovoltaic solar industry. It involved a complete system teardown, design and rebuild of magnetrons inhouse, new pump system, updated automation and web interface, electrical and PLC, operating code and so on. We even designed and built a new metal foil web handling system.
15-year-old machine resurrected and re-automated.
repurposed toward depositing state-of-art PV coatings
complete system teardown
re-design (optimized) inhouse rebuild of the magnetron sources
completely new pump system
updated automation hardware, code and functional operation
new HMI and network interface
electrical and PLC all newly specified, designed and integrated
new metal foil web handling system
Ken completing the upgrade of the turbo pump system