Volume 69 Number 2 Industrial Products for Total Seamless SolutionsCreating Customer Value with Industrial Products
Having identified five key sectors of operation in the 2021 Mid-term Management Plan, Hitachi’s products are essential across these operations. This issue highlights Hitachi’s product businesses, presenting digital solutions that draw on expertise in OT, IT, and products that integrate seamlessly across the workplace and management, and also the products that make these solutions possible.
Cover Story
Adopting a “Product-out” Approach to Manufacturing that Draws on Combined OT and IT Expertise
Product Businesses that Carry on the Founding Spirit of Hitachi
The Industry sector is equipped with a combination of OT, IT, and products. How does this sector contribute to advancing Hitachi's Social Innovation Business and increase the three values set out in Hitachi's 2021 Mid-term Management Plan? Masakazu Aoki, Executive Vice President, talks about the structure of the Industry sector and its future.
Connected Manufacturing Practices that Pioneer Future of Manufacturing
How the IoT is Enabling the Creation of New Value through Things
Sharing and use of data are advancing through the application of the IoT to production machinery. Given the smart manufacturing initiatives underway around the world, how should Japanese manufacturers address digitalization? Hitachi Review put this question to Yasuyuki Nishioka of Hosei University, a leader in the field of manufacturing digitalization.
Value Creation in Connected Industry
Hitachi Industrial Products that Support Advances in Manufacturing
The industrial products business is the driving force of the Industry sector. Key people engaged in the business talk about what they are doing to implement the Industry sector’s overarching strategy of total seamless solutions, including changes in the value that customers expect from industrial products, and how this strategy will be pursued in the future.
GLOBAL INNOVATION REPORT
Hitachi’s Global Growth Strategy for Compressed Air Solutions
Air compressors are essential equipment at manufacturing sites. Hitachi has years of experience in the compressor industry and has a comprehensive product portfolio. In 2017, Sullair, LLC. joined the Hitachi Group and the Group has been expanding its business globally. This article presents Hitachi's compressed air solutions for a wide variety of customers.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Services, Systems, and Products for Smarter Factories
Advances in digital technology are bringing dramatic changes to the practice of manufacturing. This is accompanied by growing interest in smart factories that improve overall productivity by taking advantage of digital technologies to connect factory machinery and equipment to networks. This section describes Hitachi solutions and services that provide seamless links between workplace and management while smoothing the operation of production facilities, and the products that make them possible.
Articles
- Remote Monitoring Service to Support Optimal Operation of Air Compressors
- Monitoring System for Power Transmission, Distribution Equipment to Ensure Stable Supply
- Rollout of Mobile Network Interface Equipment Business and Positioning System Business
- Industrial Controller for Integration of Advanced Control and Information Systems
- Marking System for Product Quality Management
- Products for Power Drive Systems for Enhancing Energy Effi ciency and Adding Value for Equipment
Core Utility Products Underpinning the Social Infrastructure
A variety of issues including shortages of skilled workers, aging facilities, etc. have recently come to light at industrial sites. To solve these issues, Hitachi is working on developing products that draw on its expertise in OT, IT, and products. This section looks at Hitachi’s utility infrastructure products that use the latest digital technologies to help increase efficiency and save labor at manufacturing and distribution sites.
Articles
EXTRA CONTRIBUTION
A Method to Plan a Path to the SDGs from Sciences
The SDGs are global initiatives adopted by the UN consisting of 17 goals and 169 targets to achieve a sustainable society. Efforts to achieve the SDGs by 2030 are accelerating around the world. This article presents a method for reaching the SDGs possibly more quickly starting from the sciences by means of an objective computer algorithm applied to data that is treated as representing an approximation of science as a whole.
