Hitachi Aims To Disrupt Industrial IoT Platform Market With New Commercial Lumada Software Stack
2017年9月20日 - 8:04PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Hitachi Ltd. (TSE:6501) and Hitachi Vantara, today jointly
announced Hitachi's first commercial Lumada internet of things
(IoT) platform offering. Now in its v2.0 release, the Lumada IoT
platform has been fully updated with an elegant, portable
architecture that enables it to run both on-premises or in the
cloud and to support industrial IoT deployments both at the edge
and in the core.
The new software stack is designed to help customers quickly and
easily gain insights, predictions and recommendations from their
data, and can be easily adapted to support mid-to-large-scale
environments. Lumada's integrated advanced analytics have also been
enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) functionality at scale.
The result is a highly intelligent and flexible platform that
accelerates superior outcomes for enterprise and industrial
customers, such as increased operational efficiencies and cost
savings, enhanced operational safety and reliability, improved
asset utilization, performance management and product quality, and
the creation of new business models.
Among the notable advancements to the Lumada IoT platform are asset
avatars, Hitachi's unique approach to what is commonly referred to
as "digital twins." Asset avatars provide a digital representation
of physical assets and rich metadata for analytics, serving as a
digital proxy for business and industrial assets and providing
rapid data-driven insights into their health and performance, with
continuously updated sensor values. This approach helps to
eliminate "blind spots" in operation-critical systems by providing
improved access to - and insights from - business, machine and
human data, which can help users move more rapidly from measurement
to management to improvement. The newly enhanced software stack
also provides IoT developers and architects with powerful design
tools and features that simplify the creation and deployment
industrial IoT solutions, with faster time to insight.
Since introducing Lumada to the market as a co-creation platform in
May 2016, Hitachi has hardened and optimized its Lumada IoT
platform. These improvements are based on numerous deployments in
proof-of concept (POC) and co-creation project engagements with its
customers and partners, as well as in its own factories.
Hitachi worked with customer Daicel Corporation to co-create an
image analysis system using Lumada that improves product quality
and increases productivity by detecting signs of facility failures
and deviations in front-line worker motions. This system has
allowed Daicel to improve the in-process guarantee rate for
products.
Another customer, Okuma Corporation, worked with Hitachi to
co-create an advanced high-efficiency production model with Hitachi
to support mass customization in its manufacturing plants. The
target of this joint demonstration experiment is to double
productivity and reduce production lead time by 50%.
Based on the best practices developed throughout projects like
these, Hitachi has enhanced Lumada's functionality to simplify
management of business and industrial assets, support greater asset
utilization and accelerate the time to value of IoT deloyments. Its
next generation architecture is highly flexible, composable and
adaptable to support customers' existing business and IT
environments and help them to more rapidly achieve highly optimized
outcomes.
Customers looking to accelerate their IoT initiatives using Lumada
will benefit from engaging Hitachi's co-creation services, tapping
its expansive expertise in both operation technology (OT) and
information technology (IT) to create customized IoT solutions that
are tailored to their unique requirements.
"Our next-generation Lumada IoT platform demonstrates Hitachi's
unparalleled expertise in both OT and IT, and reinforces Hitachi's
commitment to being an innovation partner for our customers in the
IoT era," said Keiji Kojima, chairman at Hitachi Vantara and senior
vice-president and exective officer at Hitachi Ltd. "With the
powerful advancements delivered today, our customers and partners
can now choose to harness the full power of Lumada's AI, advanced
analytics and asset avatars capabilities to simplify their own IoT
solution development or to accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives in co-creation projects with Hitachi. In either case,
we believe Hitachi is delivering a highly intelligent and unique
solution that challenges the industrial IoT platform market status
quo."
Hitachi's next-generation Lumada IoT platform architecture has been
fully updated with five major layers to form a flexible, portable
and composable software foundation with comprehensive security
capabilities and expanded support for unstructured data uploads.
IoT developers and architects will also benefit from Lumada's
dynamic design features, rich analytics and robust asset management
capabilities, including:
- Lumada edge: Allows any variety and velocity of data to be easily
ingested, transformed and analyzed in close proximity to physical
assets.
- Lumada core: Provides asset registry, identity and access
management and simplifies the creation of asset avatars.
- Lumada analytics: Blends OT and IT data to uncover patterns with
powerful analytics, machine learning and AI.
- Lumada studio: Delivers predefined widgets to simplify the
creation of dashboard applications; issues alerts, notifications or
just straight-through processing.
- Lumada foundry: Offers foundational services to ease deployment
on-premises and in the cloud, as well as security, microservices
and support features.
"We are exceedingly proud of the next-generation Lumada software
stack we are delivering to the market and opening up to developers
today," said Rich Rogers, senior vice-president of engineering and
product management at Hitachi Vantara. "However, Hitachi's
intention is that Lumada will be much more than just another IoT
platform in a crowded market. Lumada's ultimate purpose is to make
it simple to harness the power of IoT data to drive real value for
Hitachi's customers and partners. We remain committed to delivering
exceptional integrated software, solutions and services for Lumada.
Our vision is that one day all Hitachi machines will be connected
to it, enriching the data-driven insights and value we can provide
to ensure every Hitachi customer will benefit."
Product Availability and Information
Hitachi's Lumada IoT platform software is generally available now
for purchase and in co-creation engagements with Hitachi and select
partners. Some features may not be immediately available in all
markets. For more information and a complete list of product and
feature enhancements, visit
https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/internet-of-things/lumada.html.
Experience Hitachi's Lumada IoT Platform at NEXT 2017
Hitachi's new Lumada IoT platform software and related solutions
will be on display at the company's user conference, Hitachi NEXT,
in Las Vegas, September 19 and 20, 2017. Event attendees can see
live demonstrations of the software and the innovative IoT
solutions Hitachi and its customers and partners are developing
with it.
The event also features a full track of IoT developer breakout
sessions, providing attendees with an opportunity to engage
directly with Hitachi product management executives and development
teams. The developer breakout session will provide a deep dive on
the latest architectural advancements, design features and best
practices for building industrial and commercial enterprise IoT
solutions with Lumada. For more information, visit
www.hitachinext.com.
About Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps
data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data to
innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business
and society. We combine technology, intellectual property and
industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help
enterprises improve their customers' experiences, develop new
revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Only Hitachi
Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining deep
information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and domain
expertise. We work with organizations everywhere to drive data to
meaningful outcomes. Visit us at HitachiNewCo.com. Visit us at
www.HitachiVantara.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers
innovations that answer society's challenges with our talented team
and proven experience in global markets. The company's consolidated
revenues for fiscal 2014 (ended March 31, 2015) totaled 9,761
billion yen ($81.3 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on
the Social Innovation Business, which includes power &
infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication
systems, construction machinery, high functional materials &
components, automotive systems, healthcare and others. For more
information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
www.hitachi.com.
Source: Hitachi, Ltd.
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