Implanta · Module factory

Factory, PADIS and regulation, end to end

Meridian runs the industrial program from the feasibility study to the start of production, with PADIS and regulatory compliance handled within the factory decision.

The route serves three different decisions: verticalize part of the chain, structure a long-term industrial asset, or set up local production in Brazil with managed execution.

Team reviewing documentation and industrial implementation milestones

Industrial implementation requires coordination between construction, line, commissioning, quality and start of production.

For whom

Three audiences, one industrial decision

The initial contact checks demand, channel, capital, location, timeline and access to decision-makers. The route changes according to the company's role in the project.

  • distributors and brands that want to complement their commercial operation with local production;
  • industrial groups with their own channel, capital and intent to verticalize;
  • investors and holdings assessing a real industrial-asset thesis;
  • foreign manufacturers that want to produce in Brazil without setting up the operation alone.
Feasibility

The study defines the recommended factory configuration

The feasibility study prepares a board, council or investor decision, with numbers, risk and an implementation sequence.

1 GWlarge-scale reference used for initial sizing
~R$ 1 bnannual revenue in a reference industrial scenario
2 to 4 yearsreference payback, subject to project assumptions

The figures are modeling references, not a promise of results. Each project is sized by scale, technology, channel, price, exchange rate, location, suppliers and applicable incentives.

Questions the study answers

  1. Is there a market and channel for the analyzed capacity?
  2. What scale fits the demand and the available capital?
  3. Which technology route and level of automation should be considered?
  4. What is the order of magnitude of investment, industrial cost and margin?
  5. How do exchange rate, volume, inputs, tariff and sale price change the result?
  6. How do PADIS, regulation, location and financing change the decision?

What the work delivers

  • assumptions map;
  • strategy to combine local production and serving market volume;
  • economic and operational scenarios;
  • preliminary investment and operation estimates;
  • initial reading of PADIS, regulation and financeability;
  • risk map;
  • executive recommendation.

The reference timeline is four to eight weeks, counted after receiving the minimum data and adjusted to the contracted depth.

After the study

The study prepares the decision. Masterplan, engineering, formal quotations, PADIS qualification, homologation and full financing structuring follow in their own phases.

Investment and return estimates evolve throughout the project. Precision increases when route, suppliers, location and engineering are defined.

Analysis of project data and technical reports
Masterplan and structuring

The industrial project takes shape

With the decision to move forward, the masterplan organizes the project and the sequence of contracts. The location strategy, the regulatory route and the documentation for suppliers and financiers are also defined.

  • capacity and phasing;
  • technology route;
  • layout and flows;
  • machine list;
  • utilities;
  • team structure;
  • quality criteria;
  • schedule;
  • budget per cost center.
Implementation and start-up

Suppliers, construction, line and commissioning work as one program

Meridian equalizes technical proposals, organizes interfaces and governs the schedule. Engineering, construction, line manufacturing, assembly, testing and certification remain with the professionals and companies responsible for each specialty.

The final milestone of this phase is the line accepted and ready to start production according to the contracted criteria.

During commissioning

  • test plan;
  • acceptance criteria;
  • responsibilities for correction;
  • process parameters;
  • line documentation;
  • client team preparation.
Assisted operation

The start of production requires routine, training and control

Assisted operation organizes procedures, responsibilities, indicators and process discipline. The client's team takes over production; Meridian follows the stabilization and the knowledge transfer set in the contract.

  • training per function;
  • operating procedures;
  • production and quality indicators;
  • maintenance routine;
  • ramp-up monitoring;
  • loss-reduction plan;
  • product and process evolution.
Regulatory in the new factory

The factory is born with a route to a sellable product

A compliant product, regulatory family, technical documentation, testing and registration must align with the industrial project. On the Implanta route, Regulatory comes in to reduce rework between product engineering, supplier, laboratory and market access.

Certifications and training come in when they expand access to clients, tenders or markets. The goal is to start the operation with product, process and documentation ready to sell.

  • preliminary classification of families and models;
  • consistency between datasheet, nameplate, manual and power rating;
  • organization of the testing and registration route;
  • documentary preparation for the ENCE label and portfolio maintenance;
  • complementary certifications when they make commercial sense.
Responsibilities

One point of coordination, with distributed responsibilities

In each project, the proposal identifies what Meridian will contract and what the client will contract directly. Timeline and warranty follow this division.

Meridian

Method and coordination

  • method and specification;
  • modeling and recommendation;
  • masterplan;
  • technical equalization;
  • interface coordination;
  • schedule governance;
  • acceptance criteria;
  • commissioning management;
  • assisted operation per scope.
Client

Decision and investment

  • investment decision;
  • capital;
  • data and assumptions;
  • approvals;
  • main project contracts;
  • own team;
  • milestone acceptance.
Specialists

Execution and warranty

  • engineering and technical responsibility (ART);
  • construction and installations;
  • line manufacturing and warranty;
  • assembly;
  • certification;
  • legal, tax and accounting acts;
  • approvals from authorities and financiers.
Next step

Send the initial project data

With this context, we indicate whether there is a basis for the study and which data will be needed.

  • the company's relationship with the photovoltaic market;
  • available volume or channel;
  • scale initially considered;
  • location;
  • capital or funding structure;
  • decision horizon;
  • internal owners.