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Kulicke & Soffa and Lavorro Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver AI-Enabled Smart Manufacturing Solutions
Empowering Semiconductor Manufacturers with Actionable Insight, Solution Advising, and Expert Knowledge Capture for Scalable Operations SINGAPORE, July 9,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Empowering Semiconductor Manufacturers with Actionable Insight, Solution Advising, and Expert Knowledge Capture for Scalable Operations\nSINGAPORE, July 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLIC) (\"Kulicke & Soffa\", \"K&S\", \"we\" or the \"Company\"), a global leader in semiconductor assembly solutions, and Lavorro Inc. (\"Lavorro\"), a pioneer in Generative AI for semiconductor manufacturing, announced today a strategic partnership to deliver next-generation smart manufacturing solutions. This collaboration aims to provide customers with actionable insights, expert-guided solution advice, and scalable knowledge reuse – enabling intelligent and data-driven guidance across the semiconductor value chain.\n\n\"We are excited to partner with Lavorro to introduce a new class of smart manufacturing capabilities,\" said Shawn Sarbacker, Vice President, Smart Manufacturing Solutions Business Unit at Kulicke & Soffa. \"By integrating our proven solutions, such as the APTURA™ equipment and KNeXt™ connectivity and fleet management, with Lavorro's generative AI-enabled platform, we are positioned to differentiate ourselves among the world's leading advanced packaging platforms. This empowers customers to unlock the full value of their data, enhance factory performance, reduce operational cost, and scale expertise through intelligent knowledge capture.\"\nLavorro's platform, including FabAssist.ai™ and ToolAssist.ai™, leverages patented natural language processing and machine learning to deliver virtual assistants like \"Lucy\". These assistants are positioned to add significant value in diagnosing issues, optimizing recipes, and automating maintenance workflows in a cohesive way to enhance both mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) and mean-time-between-failures (MTBF). Additionally, these assistants can help to formalize expert institutional knowledge that accelerates onboarding, decision-making, and performance across customer facilities and throughout the broad semiconductor manufacturing value stream.\n\"Our collaboration with K&S marks a significant milestone in operationalizing and value-adding AI across semiconductor manufacturing and equipment services, including in the advanced packaging space,\" said Ankush Oberoi, CEO at Lavorro. \"Generative AI enables us to capture, synthesize, and disseminate engineering...