Partners with innovative photovoltaic business to drive down manufacturing costs.

Wright Williams & Kelly, (WWK), a provider of cost and productivity management software and consulting services, announced the addition of a revolutionary photovoltaic manufacturer to its client list. In recent weeks, WWK has added additional turnkey PV suppliers, individual PV equipment suppliers, and PV cell manufacturers to its client base.

This new solar manufacturing client has added both TWO COOL for cost of ownership and Factory Commander for business analysis. Their use of these software modelling tools will help them optimise their vendor relationships, including the proliferation of cost of ownership requirements to their supply base, and internal operations. These tools allow a detailed understanding of individual process step costs and holistic business level value. The ability to look at costs as intelligently as possible is essential in their efforts to achieve grid parity.

With more than 3,000 users worldwide, Wright Williams & Kelly, a privately held operational cost management software and consulting company, serving technology dependent and technology driven organisations. WWK maintains long term relationships with prominent industry resources including SEMATECH, SELETE, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), and national labs and universities. Its client base includes nearly all of the top 20 semiconductor manufacturers and equipment and materials suppliers as well as leaders in nanotechnology, micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), thin film record heads, magnetic media, flat panel displays (FPD), and photovoltaics (PV).