TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) announces the formation of a new corporate legal entity, TDK SensEI to address the growing market of the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and sensor fusion at the edge. The name SensEI is derived from the use of the phrase “sensor edge intelligence.” The organization will focus on Industry 4.0 solutions as the segment expands further into machine and production health. TDK SensEI is a global organization, headquartered in Singapore, accelerating transformation for a sustainable future with a significant capital infusion from TDK.
Building on TDK’s 85 years of experience commercializing magnetic and electronic materials, SensEI’s strategy will be to create Industry 4.0 solutions combining multiple TDK assets with technologies from TDK production-released solutions (sensors, batteries, and passive component platforms). The platform will tie in new and existing TDK software/edge AI with TDK hardware solutions such as motion, magnetic, microphone, current, temperature and battery/energy harvesting sensor solutions and directly target manufacturing, heavy industry, and renewable energy markets.
Sandeep Pandya has been recruited from outside of TDK to lead TDK SensEI as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Pandya is an entrepreneurial C-level leader with a successful record of developing teams, products, and new markets across technologies and industries. His focus in recent years has been on building early-stage ventures with artificial intelligence (AI)/deep tech foundations. Pandya serves on several early-stage venture and non-profit boards. Sandeep earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“In industrial operations, the need for a fully integrated platform fusing multiple sensors and AI technologies at the edge is becoming essential in maintaining production uptime,” said Sandeep Pandya, CEO, TDK SensEI. “The promise of Industry 4.0 will be realized by those companies who lead in the commercialization of these solutions, which is why I’m excited to lead and grow this entity for TDK.”
“We believe that manufacturers are struggling to process real-time data streams from their machines, which is limiting the ability to maximize and optimize production capacity. Functionality is shifting away from central cloud services to local, distributed edge locations. These edge computing platforms classify and reason about machine data before elevating it to operations teams for further analysis” stated Noboru Saito, President, and CEO of TDK Corporation. “We believe that SensEI will create a new cutting-edge platform using TDK’s emergent AI expertise and simplify the deployment of multi-class ML anomaly detection models in the short run and create long term AI solutions to accelerate the evolution of technology and the transformation of society, contributing to the realization of a sustainable future.”
