Will Virtual Power Plants Herald a New Era of Business?

Virtual Power plants (VPPs): What lies beyond the frontier You may have heard of virtual reality, but what about virtual power plants, or VPPs? A recent buzzword in the energy industry, they function, as the name suggests, like an actual power plant, but on the cyber level. They allow for the remote control of scattered energy sources, like storage batteries…

Restoring Power after Great East Japan Earthquake: Pride and Dedication in Maintenance Services

March 11, 2011 is a day that will live on forever in our memories. It was the date of the largest level of natural disaster in Japan’s recorded history: the magnitude 9 Great East Japan Earthquake triggered major fires and a huge tsunami that caused untold damage to life and property. As efforts to save lives and guarantee the safety…

An Aging Population, an Aging Infrastructure: How Structural Health Monitoring Combats Both of These Social Issues

Some may know of what is referred to as the “economic miracle” in Japan, wherein Japan experienced a period of rapid economic growth after World War II. As “miraculous” as this period was, it seems no wonder that much of the infrastructure in Japan—including roads, bridges and high-rise buildings—was constructed around this time. It will also come as no surprise…

IT for IP: Japan Patent Office’s Advanced Machine Translation System Supports Companies in Promoting Intellectual Property Strategy

In our highly competitive globalized economy, a successful intellectual property (IP) strategy rests on making sure that other countries know what patents you have approved, and getting information on patent filings in those countries. There’s only one way to do that, by translation, but relying on traditional manual translation is prohibitive: too much work and too expensive. That’s why the…

Spot Welding Inspection Robots Spark a Revolution in the Automotive Industry

A single automobile consists of 30,000 or more individual parts. Every vehicle also has 4,000 – 5,000 places where the parts, such as metal plates, are spot welded together. Spot welding is a welding method that works by passing an electric current through metal plates and using heat generated from the electric resistance to weld the metal. It can be…

We Are Toshiba : How Our Employees Turn on the Promise of a New Day.

It’s been nearly 18 months since the introduction of our brand platform, the Essence of Toshiba. Since then, there have been a number of employee brand workshops and training sessions that took place throughout the many regions where Toshiba operates. The Toshiba Clip team has been visiting some of these regions to interview employees and to hear firsthand how the…