Bernhard & Varsha Venugopal

Solving the puzzle: Leveraging machine learning for effective root cause analysis

Reduce complex root cause analysis from days to under two hours. This talk shows how to do it with explainable AI.

Solving the puzzle: Leveraging machine learning for effective root cause analysis
#1about 3 minutes

The challenge of root cause analysis in complex manufacturing

High-precision manufacturing, like semiconductor lithography, generates complex data that makes finding the root cause of failures extremely difficult.

#2about 3 minutes

Why traditional data analysis methods fall short

Standard statistical methods like linear regression fail with real-world manufacturing data due to non-linearity, missing values, and high class imbalance.

#3about 2 minutes

Using explainable AI to understand black box models

Explainable AI (XAI) provides methods to understand how a machine learning model makes predictions, which builds trust and helps discover hidden patterns in data.

#4about 9 minutes

A three-step approach using LightGBM and SHAP

A practical workflow for root cause analysis involves training a LightGBM model, explaining it with SHAP to find feature importance, and forming hypotheses from the results.

#5about 2 minutes

Building a self-service tool for domain experts

To scale the impact of data science, an internal self-service tool was built to empower engineers to perform their own root cause analysis without data science expertise.

#6about 3 minutes

Key principles for successful tool adoption by engineers

The tool's success relied on being human-centric, transparent about limitations like correlation vs causation, robust for real-world data, and simple to use.

#7about 1 minute

Empowering engineers with accessible machine learning tools

By providing simple, transparent, and powerful tools, engineers can leverage machine learning to solve complex problems much faster than before.

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