GlobalFoundries opens AI-based facilities control centre in Singapore
GlobalFoundries has opened an Advanced Facilities Control Centre (AFCC) at its site in Singapore, developed together with Siemens. In the first phase, the control centres for five fabs on the Singapore campus will be merged into a single, AI-supported command centre.
The centre combines data from facilities, equipment and operations with monitoring tools and AI-based functions such as predictive maintenance, according to a press release from GlobalFoundries. The aim is to find and fix problems faster, detect emerging faults earlier and reduce unplanned downtime. Autonomous robots fitted with thermal cameras, gas detection and vibration and acoustic sensors patrol the fab facilities and campus, sending data to the control centre in real time.
Singapore is the first site, but the system will later be rolled out across GlobalFoundries’ entire manufacturing network. Once fully deployed, it will integrate more than one million data points from facilities equipment, making it possible to compare performance between sites. GlobalFoundries also expects the centralised model to reduce duplicated infrastructure and energy use.
“By equipping our facilities engineers with data and AI-driven capabilities, we are modernising jobs and enabling our people to focus on higher-value diagnostics and problem-solving,” says Yew Kong Tan, Senior Vice President and General Manager for APAC manufacturing and the Singapore site at GlobalFoundries.
GlobalFoundries has not disclosed the size of the investment or a timeline for the global rollout.
