Manufacturing

Hitachi Uses AI and SEM Imaging to Predict Performance

Hitachi and Hitachi High-Tech announced in June 2025 that they had developed a process informatics technology to support the launch of production lines and improve yields. When the developed technology was introduced and verified on a lithium-ion battery prototype line, it succeeded in predicting product performance with high accuracy at the intermediate product stage. In the manufacturing industry, there is a need to quickly launch production lines and further streamline manufacturing processes in order to respond to rapid changes in market needs. Hitachi and Hitachi High-Tech have proposed a "manufacturing process improvement solution" that utilizes a unique database and generative AI to achieve highly efficient manufacturing processes. However, achieving this requires a large amount of learning data, which poses challenges in terms of development time and cost. Therefore, we focused…