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For high-end manufacturing factories such as semiconductor fabs, utility systems (e.g., power, HVAC, compressed air, pure water) are the "lifeline" ensuring stable production and product quality. However, under traditional factory management, subsystems are built independently, and data is fragmented into "data silos." Operators must manually switch between multiple systems, making it difficult to perform correlation analysis quickly and leading to low troubleshooting efficiency. Meanwhile, systems mainly rely on threshold alarms, generating numerous irrelevant alerts, so operators struggle to prioritize and may miss critical faults.

More critically, operations heavily depend on experienced staff, with core knowledge hard to preserve. Personnel changes cause fluctuations in maintenance quality. The root cause is not negligence but the lack of global coordination, intelligent diagnosis, and predictive optimization capabilities at the system level, leaving energy management in a "black-box," lagging, high-energy-consumption coarse state.

Breaking the Management Dilemma: AI Builds an "Intelligent Hub" for Factory Management

Gtrontec AI+ Smart Factory Management Platform horizontally covers energy management, utility system optimization, environmental safety, carbon management, and more. Vertically, it deeply integrates intelligent technology into each business process, creating a unified intelligent hub for factory management to solve traditional challenges. Based on this platform, the solution includes four core applications: AI-EMS Smart Energy Management, AI-HVAC and Compressed Air System Optimization, AI-EHS Smart Environmental Safety Management, and AI-CMS Smart Carbon Management.

The core feature of the solution is the deployment of an intelligent agent cluster, including data perception, intelligent alerting, factory knowledge expert, operation decision, and energy-saving scheduling optimization agents, fully supporting the intelligent upgrade of the entire factory management workflow.

Taking energy management as an example:

AI empowers cost reduction and efficiency improvement, delivering tangible value. Gtrontec AI-EMS Smart Energy Management Solution is tailored for semiconductor fabs to address pain points like complex energy systems, high energy intensity, and prominent data silos. It provides one-stop data collection and comprehensive visual monitoring, enabling real-time oversight, early warning, and energy efficiency analysis of various energy operations. The core advantage lies in integrating multiple AI energy-saving algorithms for accurate energy demand forecasting, load prediction, and AI-assisted decision-making, further optimizing energy procurement strategies and unit consumption control. This fundamentally changes the traditional manual reporting and experience-based scheduling, making energy flow transparent and traceable through a digital system, achieving intelligent analysis and optimal decision-making, laying a solid foundation for continuous cost reduction and carbon management. The successful practice of a leading domestic semiconductor manufacturer is the best proof. For this company facing challenges like high utility system energy consumption, scattered data lacking coordination, and significant cost-reduction pressure, Gtrontec deployed the AI-EMS system. After deployment, it achieved unified monitoring and refined management of water, electricity, gas, and HVAC media. Combined with AI algorithms for energy efficiency analysis and optimization, it helped the company save 15% of factory-related labor costs, reduce annual energy costs by over 16 million RMB, and improve overall management efficiency by 50%, truly converting AI value into visible operational gains.

In the next article, we will focus on HVAC and compressed air system optimization scenarios, exploring how AI technology like intelligent agents penetrates the factory's power core. Stay tuned.