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Suntech Power is the world’s largest maker of solar cells and panels. It reached this position through a combination of clever advances in manufacturing equipment with judicious use of cheap labor. After the cells are sorted by hand, a machine exposes them to a brief flash of light and measures their response. A robot then sorts them by performance into the bins seen here.
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Suntech Power is the world’s largest maker of solar cells and panels. It reached this position through a combination of clever advances in manufacturing equipment with judicious use of cheap labor. After the cells are sorted by hand, a machine exposes them to a brief flash of light and measures their response. A robot then sorts them by performance into the bins seen here.