ThailandManufacturing2023 – ongoingWestern Digital
AI-supported chiller efficiency at the Prachinburi factory
Western Digital reported 1,257 MWh in savings from its Thai factory's chilled-water improvements
Problem
The chiller plant was among the most energy-intensive parts of Western Digital's Prachinburi operations.
Approach
The factory used AI and machine learning alongside automation and data analysis to improve chiller efficiency. Western Digital attributed the reported annual energy reduction to Industrial Internet of Things technology in the chilled-water system. It did not isolate AI's contribution.
Results
Takeaway
The disclosed savings covered the combined chilled-water improvement program. They did not measure the incremental effect of AI alone.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and MLOptimization
- Adoption
- Partner co-development
- Goal
- Cost savings
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Western Digital described AI-supported chiller improvements at Prachinburi. It attributed 1,257 MWh in fiscal 2024 energy savings to the chilled-water system's Industrial Internet of Things implementation.
Full details are in the original sources.
