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On May 7, 2026 SEMICON SOUTHEAST ASIA successfully concluded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The exhibition gathered over a thousand top global companies and tens of thousands of professional visitors, setting a record scale and highlighting Southeast Asia's strong momentum as a new growth pole for the global semiconductor industry.

At this event focused on regional manufacturing's future, Gtrontec systematically showcased its full-stack CIM and complete industrial AI agent cluster covering production, equipment, quality, and logistics. Its booth became a core venue for attendees to discuss how AI can drive factory performance leaps.

Gtrontec Southeast Asia Division Chief Architect Deng Xiaojin delivered an insightful speech on "How AI Drives Smart Manufacturing Future" at the TECH Stage event. Drawing from extensive frontline practice, he identified three major challenges AI addresses in semiconductor manufacturing: data silos, process black boxes, and reactive maintenance. He advocated using an AI Agent cluster for data governance, intelligent process control, and predictive maintenance to improve yield, equipment efficiency, and flexibility, and suggested building an FDE iron triangle talent structure for phased smart upgrade deployment. This resonated strongly with the industry.

Aligning with the trend toward multi-agent collaboration in semiconductor manufacturing, Gtrontec's dedicated agent cluster for production, equipment, quality, and logistics—previously highlighted at SEMICON CHINA—was fully presented in Southeast Asia, demonstrating Gtrontec's solid capability to turn AI from concept into reality.

In the production domain, the Full-stack CIM solution for semiconductor factories provides a comprehensive smart manufacturing integrated architecture covering planning to execution. This solution includes an MES with advanced modules and various intelligent applications. Pre-built templates and simulation platforms significantly shorten system deployment cycles, ensuring zero-downtime production continuity.

The CIM AI Foundation, a multi-agent development and application platform designed for cross-system collaboration in semiconductor manufacturing, was showcased. It addresses pain points like data silos, system fragmentation, and intelligent application building across systems. By integrating multiple data sources such as MES, EAP, and FDC, the platform builds a unified data lake and provides reusable components and services for smart applications through standardized AI capability modules. This enables modular, low-barrier construction of AI applications like yield analysis assistants and equipment predictive maintenance.

On the equipment side, the Equipment Intelligent Agent solution excels in automatic anomaly analysis, intelligent maintenance recommendations, and dynamic scheduling optimization. It integrates multi-source data to build equipment health profiles, predicts degradation trends and remaining useful life, reducing fault diagnosis time from traditional "hours" to "minutes." It aims to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by about 7.2% and reduce maintenance costs by 5-10%.

In the quality domain, Gtrontec demonstrated exceptional technical depth. It built a quality decision hub coordinated by multiple agents, including a quality experience library agent, problem analysis agent, intelligent decision agent, FMEA agent, audit agent, 8D report generation agent, and quality tool agent. Through precise data analysis and intelligent decisions, it effectively reduces defect rates and improves overall product quality, bringing significant economic benefits and market competitiveness. On the hardware side, the AI+AOI full-process quality inspection solution showcased its S800 series automatic wafer inspection equipment, featuring a multi-angle optical system and self-developed algorithms with a detection rate over 99%. Combined with the Auto SMI system for intelligent wafer map analysis, it enables early warning and precise classification of batch anomalies, greatly improving yield and quality control efficiency.

In smart logistics, Gtrontec launched its independently developed AI AMHS (Autonomous Material Handling System) solution. Deeply integrating AI algorithm engines with industry know-how, it builds a closed-loop management of "IoT sensing, intelligent decision, and automated execution," achieving transparent and controllable processes from raw material inbound to finished product outbound. Its core competitiveness lies in dynamic path optimization, just-in-time delivery, self-healing error correction, and digital twin simulation, breaking traditional hardware stacking to achieve AI-adaptive intelligent logistics scheduling. This solution has been validated at a leading 12-inch wafer fab in China, achieving seamless coordination between Stockers, OHT overhead hoist transport, and various production/test equipment. While significantly increasing wafer starts, it notably reduces work-in-progress inventory turnover days and greatly improves material handling efficiency. This solution is also applicable to assembly & test facilities and discrete manufacturing scenarios with strict cleanliness, yield, and traceability requirements, such as new energy lithium batteries.

Gtrontec's technical confidence is rooted in its extensive global customer success practices. In one shared case, Gtrontec implemented an AI-based CIM-MIS system for a Malaysian wafer fab, achieving over 90% product traceability improvement and a 20% increase in equipment OEE. When serving a 12-inch wafer fab for equipment AI monitoring, the AI FDC successfully addressed differentiated challenges from multiple CMP polishing equipment suppliers. Through intelligent recommendations and multi-model collaboration with TPM and MVA, it accurately detected faults such as filter clogging, wafer breakage, and slurry flow instability—faults often missed or falsely alarmed by traditional methods. Its online learning mechanism continuously reduces false alarms, significantly cutting engineer model maintenance time. These experiences from major global manufacturing regions provide reliable digital path references for Southeast Asian customers.

During the exhibition, Gtrontec's team held intensive discussions with manufacturers and partners from across Southeast Asia. Its shared service model in IoT services, along with a managed service framework covering cloud resource management, disaster recovery compliance, and software lifecycle, provided new ideas for addressing local companies' operational cost and complexity challenges.

As the exhibition concludes, Gtrontec's deep expansion in Southeast Asia has commenced. The company is committed to combining its proven full-stack intelligent solutions with localized service capabilities, becoming a core partner in the smart upgrade of Southeast Asia's semiconductor and high-end manufacturing industries.