Hitachi and Hitachi High-Tech Corporation are developing a Manufacturing Process Improvement Solution to help find optimal manufacturing processes and are enhancing the informatics business to accelerate digital transformation in industrial fields. Hitachi and Hitachi High-Tech have contributed to highly efficient research and development (R&D) by providing customers with solutions related to materials informatics. With the provision of this solution, we will help optimise manufacturing processes as well as R&D.
Material development involves a phase where prototypes developed by researchers are scaled up for large-scale manufacturing. So far, process development engineers and others relied on their experience and knowledge in trial and error and find the best manufacturing process that maximised the properties of materials. In this solution, Hitachi Group’s expert consultants can propose highly efficient manufacturing processes and solutions using our proprietary database accumulates manufacturing process information from various fields, as well as Generative AI. We also offer a system that allows customers to use informatics to find out the optimal values for various parameters. This enables to explore new manufacturing processes, and thus achieve advanced process exploration, reduce wasteful costs, and improve productivity of frontline workers such as process development engineers. This solution will be provided by Hitachi High-Tech after conducting a proof of concept starting in April 2025, with customers such as semiconductor, battery, and materials manufacturers who can test and introduce it.