Soltech

Solar panel production with full traceability at Soltech

Soltech uses 24Flow to connect people, processes and quality checks in real time, from raw material to finished panel.

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Solar panel production line

Goal

Products keep changing.
Every panel must stay traceable.

How do you bring structure and traceability to one of Europe’s most advanced solar panel production facilities, where products and projects keep changing?

What Soltech wanted

Soltech chose 24Flow to run its shop floor. It was not a routine upgrade: it changed how production works.

For Soltech’s management, the point was never just a new tool. It was about how the organization runs and how teams work together on the shop floor.

The goal: a digital base for production that keeps up with constant product changes, with every panel traceable. See how 24Flow works for high tech manufacturers.

About Soltech

Founded in 1989 as a spin-off from imec, Soltech SA is a Belgian leader in photovoltaic innovation.

From its energy-neutral production site in Genk, Soltech designs and manufactures solar technology for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics (VIPV) and Infrastructure Integrated Photovoltaics (IIPV). Soltech is ISO 9001 certified.

Challenges

Many variants, constant change.
Too little visibility.

Soltech’s production changes all the time: many variants and constant innovation. Keeping control needed a firm digital base.

01

Limited visibility

Separate systems and manual data entry made it hard to see production status in real time.

02

Complex work preparation

Custom projects needed a fixed routing and sequence to avoid rework.

03

Gaps in quality tracking

Manual steps left gaps in traceability across materials, subassemblies and finished products.

04

No clear cost per project

There was too little data to calculate project profitability accurately.

05

Change management

Management and operators needed one shared view of the new way of working, and both had to be on board.

Solution

Every panel scanned.
Every step on record.

A digital route per product

Each product route was mapped and digitized, so subassemblies are ready on time and in the right quantity.

Real-time tracking

Every solar panel gets a unique serial number, scanned at each production step, for full traceability and exact time registration.

Quality checks in the flow

Panels that fail inspection go into a structured rework flow automatically, with less waste and a clear owner for every fix.

Live dashboards

Managers and team leaders follow performance live, so they decide faster and keep improving the process.

Technology and teamwork

A base to build on

Soltech shows what happens when technology and teamwork go together. With 24Flow as its digital base, Soltech keeps building production where quality, sustainability and innovation support each other.

Team reviewing solar panel components

Impact

Quality built into
the flow.

Better visibility

Real-time data from the shop floor up to the management dashboards.

Full traceability

Every panel tracked from raw material to finished product.

One shared environment

Operators and supervisors plan, execute and check quality in the same system.

In their own words

“Digitalization is truly a team effort. It’s not just about the software; it’s about creating a shared vision for better processes and quality. Change takes time, but the results are worth the effort.”

Wim Hoste, COO, Soltech

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Know where every unit is, and what happened to it.

Tell us how you track production today. In a free demo, we show how 24Flow would do it on your shop floor.
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