In a rapidly changing world, the increasingly severe challenges associated with energy, food, and other resources are impacting the global environment. Hitachi has published its Mid-term Management Plan aimed at achieving a sustainable society. This issue covers a wide range of work that is going on in the water and industrial sectors from an environmental perspective.
Hitachi’s Water & Environment Business Unit is drawing on its OT domain knowledge of environmental and clean technologies to engage in collaborative creation with business partners and customers, thereby delivering value across a broad range of applications. Hideshi Nakatsu, the CEO of the BU, talks about its initiatives.
Hitachi's Industrial Digital Business Unit is leveraging digital technology to help reduce the environmental impact of its customers while also delivering economic value and solutions based on the concept of total seamless solutions. Kazunobu Morita, the CEO of the BU, talks about its initiatives.
Humanity faces numerous challenges including climate change, energy concerns, and resource depletion. Amid this background, Hitachi is developing environmentally conscious technologies and solutions. Professor Masaki Takaoka from Kyoto University meets with key people from Hitachi and reviews the progress of work on global environmental protection.
Natural energy sources are unlikely to serve as main sources of power due to their variability. For this reason, hydrogen is becoming popular as a new energy source. Hitachi Review spoke to key people involved in each project of a demonstration project in Tomiya City, which is actively promoting the development of a low-carbon hydrogen supply chain.
Logistics has become an essential part of society’s infrastructure, but it faces several challenges. To overcome these challenges, SSCV was developed for achieving DX whereby logistics can evolve. What is the background to the creation of SSCV-Safety aiming to achieve zero accidents and how will it contribute to innovation in the logistics industry?
As represented by ISO, there has been considerable activity on international standardization over recent years in the field of water and the environment. This article looks back at the activities of ISO/TC 224 from the perspective of the author who served on the committee for 10 years, giving examples of Japan's contribution and the latest developments.
The growing challenges associated with water across the world call for rapid action in order to protect the environment. Hitachi Group, meanwhile, has been engaging in collaborative creation with customers and other business partners as it strives to maintain and improve water infrastructure and the environment through the development and supply of cutting-edge solutions.
An increasing number of industrial companies are prioritizing carbon neutrality and resource recycling, creating widespread demand for solutions to environmental challenges. As part of this movement, Hitachi is responding to the needs of its customers with digital solutions that make the systems that help improve the efficiency of systems that support society and build resilient supply chains.
