Renesas AI chip predicts faults in manufacturing equipment
Renesas Electronics, the world’s leading provider of microcontrollers a premier supplier of semiconductors, has created chips with AI that can predict malfunctions and detect faults in manufacturing equipment. The intelligent chips analyse data such as sounds, equipment warping, temperature, and voltage changes for any indications that the equipment is about to fail. The chips could save companies money by detecting abnormalities in manufacturing equipment before it fails completely, thereby averting the need to halt production and potentially spending more to fix or replace equipment. The AI can also learn automatically, improving its accuracy in detecting similar problems in the future.

TOKYO -- Renesas Electronics has created chips with artificial intelligence that can predict malfunctions in manufacturing equipment, helping to prevent breakdowns and product defects.

The chipmaker worked with XCompass Intelligence, an AI research startup founded at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, on development. The chips examine such data as sounds, equipment warping, temperature, and voltage changes for signs that equipment is about to malfunction. The AI can learn automatically, improving its accuracy.