Renesas was briefly in the headlines in the spring of 2021 for a fire inside its Naka factory in Japan. Though there thankfully no casualties due to the incident, it slowed down Renesas's 12-inch wafer production when automotive supply chains were already reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic fallout. Renesas tackled the story head-on at Analyst Day, leading off its 2021 Progress Report with an enumeration of the preventative safety measures taken since the fire and the company's production bounce-back (see Figure 2 below). These include equipment upgrades at Renesas production sites geared towards early fire containment, such as automatic fire extinguishers, sprinklers and sensitive smoke detectors, which it says will be completed by the end of 2022. On the personnel side, Renesas is putting resources towards sharing best practices and learnings across production sites.