LogistikPlan Industry Sector: Solar & Semiconductors
Savings Potential Lies in the Details
Photovoltaics and microelectronics have little in common at first glance. However, both rely on a demanding material: the silicon wafer. Each individual production stage places the highest technological and logistics requirements on handling, for example to prevent microcracks.
Nevertheless, companies in the solar and semiconductor industries pursue very different business models and apply differentiated approaches to technology and quality assurance, transparency and standardization, manufacturing and logistics.
At LogistikPlan, we therefore focus less on similarities and more on the specific challenges faced by module manufacturers as well as cell and microchip producers. To unlock competitive advantages and savings potential, we concentrate on the consistent optimization of sourcing, production, and shipping logistics.
► Illustrative examples of significant savings potential:
LogistikPlan has developed its expertise in the semiconductor and solar industries over many years, for example in reducing costs for production and transport packaging:
- While the industry-standard cost share for packaging a solar module is well below €2.00,
- the container solution for a semiconductor wafer (which is around 20 times smaller than a module) exceeds €10.00 per unit.
Transport costs also differ significantly in industry benchmarks.
- One of the major savings potentials is achieved through double stacking of pallets. Our solution approach: packaging and load securing are consistently aligned with the transport concept and the handling requirements at the receiving site.
► Solutions across the entire value chain:
In the competence field “Solar and Semiconductors,” LogistikPlan has been active across the entire value chain for more than ten years:
- from silicon production for the photovoltaic and electronics industries
- through the manufacturing of ingots, bricks, and wafers
- to the production and shipping logistics of solar modules.
► The LogistikPlan competence field Solar and Semiconductors:
In the PV industry, unlike in microelectronics, long-term industry success will increasingly be secured through end-customer relationships. Integrated solutions, durability, warranty and service offerings, and customer access will become even more important differentiation factors.
- Strategies for site development and modular factory planning
- Concepts for production logistics, control, and material flow
- Layout planning of cleanrooms and infrastructure (airlocks, black, gray, and white zoning)
- Planning of cleanroom-compatible workstations, material flow, and handling systems
- Warehouse planning for production materials and packaging materials, hazardous goods, and shipping
- System solutions for packaging, load securing, and transport optimization
- Distribution and service concepts for specific markets
In the LogistikPlan competence field Solar and Semiconductors, we are happy to support you with our industry and methodological expertise—simply request our service profile free of charge:
