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Technology Leadership and Continuous Innovation
Innovation is the core driving force for the continuous development of the industry. As a global leader in the photovoltaic industry, Trina Solar has always insisted on being driven by technology research and development, and providing value to customers with its strong R&D capabilities and technical experience . Guangneng has set world records in battery conversion efficiency and module power 26 times, and has filed more than 5,000 patent applications.
Trina Solar actively promotes the standardization and regularization of the industry, and provides technical and practical support for the development of the industry by participating in the formulation and revision of standards in the fields of photovoltaic products and technologies. As of the end of August 2024, we have cumulatively led or participated in the formulation of standards.
220 items, including 135 published standards led or co-edited and 1 international standard .
26 world records in cell conversion efficiency and module power (with 700W + banner )
In April 2024, Trina Solar's independently developed 210 +N i-TOPCon photovoltaic module was certified by TÜV SÜD, an authoritative third-party testing and certification agency, with a maximum output power of 740.6W, setting a new world record .
Component Recycling Research
In 2023, in the preliminary research of retired component recycling technology, Trina Solar focused on the efficient dissociation of laminates, the efficient separation and purification of precious metals in battery cells, and has disclosed 4 invention patents.
In February 2024, Trina Solar and its industry ecosystem partners jointly released the "2023 China Photovoltaic Recycling and Reuse White Paper", which covers the latest developments in policies, technologies, markets, industries, standards, patents, etc. for photovoltaic product recycling in 2023, and helps promote green governance of the entire photovoltaic manufacturing chain in China.
Intellectual Property Protection
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Patent navigation empowers and enhances employees' intellectual property awareness and capabilities
The IPEnlightment series of empowerment activities for all employees of Trina Solar to safeguard the company's innovation and intellectual property development. The number of participants in this training exceeded 1,000, and the coverage increased by 100% compared with 2022.
In order to apply what they have learned, the company held the second "Tianhe Cup" Patent Search Competition, with more than 100 people registering to participate, reflecting the significant improvement of Tianhe employees' intellectual property awareness and professional level.
Information Development
As an industry leader, we are committed to fully realizing automation, informatization, digitalization, and intelligent production and warehousing integration in production, practicing full- stack intelligent manufacturing, and moving towards digital intelligence .
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Trina Solar's Yancheng base was selected as one of the outstanding units in the national intelligent manufacturing scene
major national projects jointly carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission , the Ministry of Finance, and the State Administration for Market Regulation.
In 2023, Yancheng Technology implemented digital systems such as the production execution system (MES), quality management system (QMS), production traceability data system, equipment Internet of Things system (RFID), and used intelligent hardware such as automatic guided vehicles (AGV) to achieve a comprehensive improvement in the company's automation, digitalization and intelligence levels, and was successfully selected as one of the national outstanding intelligent manufacturing scenarios.
Qinghai Factory builds digital operation cockpit to achieve leading automated management
Trina Solar's Qinghai factory explores automated production models, combines production operations and automated equipment through the production of the Internet of Things (IoT), realizes automated centralized control of crystal pulling production , and improves labor and machine efficiency. At the same time, the Qinghai factory builds a digital operation cockpit, using 2D visual dashboards and 3D digital management and monitoring to monitor and manage equipment operation, AGV operation, furnace operation, etc. in real time, achieving leading production automation management.
Trina Solar was named a pioneer in digital transformation at the 6th Dingge Awards, and its quality control was recognized
The "Dingge Award " Digital Transformation Pioneer List was jointly initiated by Harvard Business Review, Tsinghua University Global Industry Research Institute and SAP to recognize pioneering companies that have performed outstandingly in the digital transformation of Chinese companies. In 2023, Trina Solar won the annual Production Transformation Model Award for its outstanding achievements in digital production - the "Trina Energy Storage BU New Base Intelligent Manufacturing MES Construction Project".