SolarEdge Combats Climate Crisis with Smart Energy Technology
Jabil’s seamless teamwork, manufacturing excellence, unrelenting quality focus and supply chain intelligence fuel market leadership for green-energy innovator
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Company
SolarEdge Technologies
Industry
Smart Energy
Country
Israel
Employees
3,900+
Website
solaredge.com/usChallenges
- Accelerated pace of innovation required manufacturing agility to produce 50 different products per quarter
- Unrelenting focus on quality needed for power electronics products with 25-year product warranties
- Massive production volumes necessitate automation and global supply chain intelligence
Solutions
- Jabil’s energy industry expertise, manufacturing excellence, end-to-end quality tracing and operational efficiency proved essential to high-volume production
- Dual-site strategy, vertical testing facility, along with Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) created optimum manufacturing environment
- Jabil’s digital supply chain intelligence minimized supply constraints, raw-material shortages and logistical challenges during pandemic to maintain production levels
Benefits
- Industry-leading automation cuts manufacturing time by nearly 50%, enabling production of tens of thousands of products each week
- Seamless collaboration drives constant flow of new product introductions and up to 300 engineering changes each month
- Embedded NPI, engineering and R&D teams ensure superior product reliability and quality of more than 2.5 million inverters and over 60 million power optimizers
When Jabil first engaged with SolarEdge, the company still qualified as a startup. In short order, however, Solar Edge’s meteoric rise and quickening pace of innovation created urgent requirements for product development, prototyping and manufacturing. To accommodate such dramatic business growth, Jabil assembled a team of experts to provide the highest levels of manufacturing excellence and efficiency in the face of skyrocketing production volumes.
In transforming from a solar power startup to green energy juggernaut, SolarEdge has expanded its offerings, which now encompass residential, commercial and large-scale PV, energy storage and backup, electric vehicle charging, home energy management, grid services and virtual power plants, as well as batteries and uninterrupted power supply solutions.
As SolarEdge adds more intelligence into its products with modules that enable homeowners to better manage and monitor solar energy production, consumption and backup storage in real time, Jabil is working with SolarEdge to make these products a reality and bring them to market, quickly, efficiently and economically.
“We are sure that Jabil will be with us through our journey to the next era,” concludes Bechor. “They have been with us hand-in-hand for more than 10 years, and they will be with us for the next 10 years, which is very important to us. That’s kind of the magic, the secret sauce that works between our two companies.”
“The high reliability we demand requires a different level of attention. Jabil has proven to be a great partner to fulfill our quantity, quality, delivery and pricing at the right time. It’s been a journey that Jabil has invested in too.”
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