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Hitachi splits Vantara in two – separates IoT/IT/OT solutions from cloud infra services

A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, and its strategy and thought leadership to develop the co-creation story in digital transformation...

Hitachi demos machine vision on edge-5G at US autoplant – with Ericsson, AWS

Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has hooked up a private cellular network from Ericsson and an on-site edge engine from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run computer vision checks on a production line at its electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky, in the...

Arrcus secures new investment from Hitachi Ventures

Arrcus said the investment will enable the firm to accelerate growth and expand market reach Networking software company Arrcus announced a new investment from Hitachi Ventures for an additional closing of its Series D. Arrcus said this new investment will enable the company to accelerate its...

Soracom taps IDEMIA to bundle low-power eSIMs for NB-IoT and LTE-M apps

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced a deal with France-based outfit IDEMIA, a supplier of identity-related security services, to offer enterprise customers an optimised low-power embedded SIM (eSIM) with its power-constrained cellular IoT products in North America and Europe. IDEMIA’s eSIM proposition, called DAKOTA...

KDDI-owned Soracom expands IoT partner programme into Europe, Americas

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with new Sigfox-owner UnaBiz, has expanded its partner network into the Americas and Europe, it has said, including via its UnaBiz partnership. The firm said its partner ranks have swollen to 800 companies with...

Hitachi Energy intros industrial 5G routers for cities, factories, utilities

The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 series routers work in hybrid 5G systems, attaching to private and public cellular infrastructure,...

Hitachi looks to digital transformation of railways with Thales business unit acquisition

Hitachi Rail purchasing Thales' Ground Transportation Systems business for approximately $2 billion Japanese industrial heavyweight Hitachi Rail has entered into exclusive negotiations with French multinational Thales Group to purchase the former's Ground Transportation Systems business unit with an initial enterprise valuation just less than $2...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Automated guided vehicles

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum. Automated guided vehicles are just one part of 5G manufacturing An automated guided vehicle (AGV) is a portable robot that follows along marked long lines or wires on the floor, or...

Soracom raises new funds from major customers and collaborators in Japan

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced new investment from six technology firms, including from two major IoT customers, in the form Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) and Sourcenext Corporation in the Japanese utility industry, as well as from Japan-based trio Hitachi, Secom, and Sony Group,...

Suntory recruits Hitachi to develop ‘next-gen factory model’ at water plant in Japan

Suntory Beverage & Food, the soft drinks division of Japanese drinks company Suntory, has recruited Hitachi to deploy its Lumada-branded IoT platform and IoT analytics applications at its newly opened water plant in Omachi, in the Nagano Prefecture in Japan. Separately, HItachi has announced...

Hitachi buys US software firm GlobalLogic for $9.5bn in ‘biggest deal’ for Japanese tech

Hitachi is to acquire Silicon Valley-based digital engineering services company GlobalLogic for $9.5 billion. The firm will be integrated into the Japanese firm’s Hitachi Vantara unit; its digital engineering capabilities will “strengthen” its Lumada industrial IoT platform, the company said. Japanese financial paper The Nikkei...

Nokia boosts 5G private wireless ecosystem in Japan

Finnish vendor Nokia announced the ‘Nokia Local 5G Technology Partnership’, a new strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of 5G-based enterprise industry solutions in Japan. Members of the new alliance include Conexio, Hitachi Kokusai, NS (Nippon Steel) Solutions, Omron and Sharp, the vendor said. Alliance partners will...

The top five industrial IoT platforms – Microsoft and AWS make their moves

Time for an update on the state of play in the industrial IoT platform market; there are numerous studies and rankings of the principle platforms in the space, but Gartner’s annual Magic Quadrant review remains the gold standard, and the one Enterprise IoT Insights...

Swiss Re and Hitachi offer insurance against misfiring AI in Industry 4.0

Swiss Re and Hitachi are offering to insure industrial companies against business disruption from bad or back-firing algorithms in critical AI-controlled processes and operations. It is the first time enterprises have been offered insurance against AI. The arrangement is between the commercial insurance division of...

Hitachi installs a dedicated 5G network, tests robot/human collaboration

Hitachi has installed a dedicated 5G network at its Silicon Valley Research Center, part of the Hitachi America's research and development division. The installation, done in partnership with Ericsson, will leverage Hitachi’s platform technology to accelerate the development and demonstrate the value of digital...

Australian rail firm ARTC gets on track for digital change with Hitachi-ABB

Australia is both the flattest continent on earth and, with the exception of Antarctica, the driest. You can travel 2,000-odd miles across its plains, between Sydney and Perth, without seeing very much at all. At the same time, Australia’s population is spiralling; it is...

Hitachi buys UK rail tech specialist Perpetuum to deliver smarter trains

The rail transport division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi Group has announced a deal to acquire UK-based rail technology firm Perpetuum for an undisclosed fee. Perpetuum, based in Southampton, offers train monitoring solutions that combine IoT-based wireless sensors and AI-based data analytics to enable train...

Hitachi, Microsoft partner for manufacturing and logistics digital solutions

Predictive maintenance, process automation focus use cases Hitachi and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, North America and Japan. In a release, the partners said that the first solutions will be...

World Economic Forum issues blockchain toolkit to strengthen global supply chains

The World Economic Forum has released a blockchain toolkit offering guidance to enterprises seeking to deploy the distributed ledger technology. It cited the global pressure created by the COVID-19 outbreak on global trade as reason to cooperate to strengthen international supply chains, and look...

Hitachi snaps up German software firm Seneos as car industry gets electrified

Hitachi has acquired automotive software developer Seneos, based in Germany, for an undisclosed fee. The deal, by Hitachi Automotive Systems, bolsters the Japanese firm’s software capabilities in the automotive space, as the tide of vehicle connectivity, electrification, and automation places increasing focus on software. In...

Nokia joins with Hitachi, Globalstar to push private LTE and 5G in Japan and Africa

Nokia is working with Hitachi Kokusai Electric in Japan to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for industrial and government customers in Japan. It has struck a parallel deal in Africa with mobile satellite provider Globalstar to enable enterprises to deploy mobile-based applications in...

NHS trust signs £25m deal with Hitachi for digital twin and control centre

An NHS trust in Manchester, in the UK, has agreed a £25 million deal with Hitachi Consulting to use advanced data analytics and IoT tools to digitise its processes and optimise its staff resources, in what is billed as the “UK’s first fully integrated...

The top industrial IoT platforms – and the only three worth considering?

Old familiars Hitachi, PTC, and Software AG ranked top again among industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms in Gartner’s latest ‘Magic Quadrant’ assessment of the sector. But Software AG swapped places with PTC at the summit, this time, and Hitachi followed behind this pair.These three ranked...

Supply chain modernization underlies effective digital strategy

Hitachi sees traditional supply chain management as a road block to disruption The broad Industry 4.0 conversation focuses on how the internet of things and data analytics can add value to foundational sectors like manufacturing, transportation and retail. But linking together those industries, connecting the...