
Southfield, Michigan June 24, 2010 – Comau Inc. today announced that it has received a 2009 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. Comau’s award is in recognition of their work with Boeing’s Renewable Energy Solutions team to develop a manufacturing solution for producing a new type of solar concentrator module, an industry leading technology for converting sunlight directly into electricity.
“It’s an honor for the Comau team to have our contributions formally recognized by a leading company like Boeing for providing them a high level of service in a new and exciting technology field,” said Neil Willetts, Product Line Diversified Vice President for North America.
The Comau team, led by Stuart Marks, first worked with the Boeing engineers at their Phantoms works site to develop the manufacturing solution. This led to the design and build of a pilot automation system for building solar modules for the first 100 kW power plant using this technology. The system is now in production at the Comau Novi plant.
Comau has over 70 years of experience using global resources, engineering know-how, and lean manufacturing processes to provide sustainable automated solutions to customers in industries like automotive, aerospace, packaging, defense, solar and wind energy, rail, recreational and more; from ideas and design to installation, maintenance and service.
For more information on the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html.
Contact: Krista Reaves
248) 369-6965
Krista.reaves@comauinc.com,