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

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…

2020/01/15
IT for IP: Japan Patent Office’s Advanced Machine Translation System Supports Companies in Promoting Intellectual Property Strategy

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…

2020/01/08
Spot Welding Inspection Robots Spark a Revolution in the Automotive Industry

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 …

2019/12/25
We Are Toshiba: How Our Employees Turn on the Promise of a New Day

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 …

2019/12/18
Instant Voice-to-Text! Transforming Work Styles with the Power of AI

Instant Voice-to-Text! Transforming Work Styles with the Power of AI

We are fast approaching a time where more people can live beyond a hundred years old. At the same time, however, there are labor shortages due to low birthrates and an aging population. RPA (Robotics …

2019/12/11
Pride and Dedication in Maintenance Services: the Lifeline that Supports Social Infrastructure

Pride and Dedication in Maintenance Services: the Lifeline that Supports Social Infrastructure

Take a look at this world map. From Japan to the USA, to Canada, to Italy and beyond, the pins in the world map show the thermal power stations that Ken Takagi of Toshiba Energy Systems Solutions Cor…

2019/12/04
Creating Together Opens a New Future of Self-Driving Cars

Creating Together Opens a New Future of Self-Driving Cars

Here at Toshiba, we offer two in-house awards named after our founding fathers, Hisashige Tanaka and Ichisuke Fujioka. Tanaka, born in 1799, was nicknamed “Karakuri Giemon”, the genius of mechanical w…

2019/11/27
An Entire Factory in Cyberspace? : Creating Optimal Worksites through Simulation

An Entire Factory in Cyberspace? : Creating Optimal Worksites through Simulation

Hisashige Tanaka and Ichisuke Fujioka—the founding fathers of Toshiba, were two people who made an enormous impact on the history of modern technology in Japan. Here at Toshiba, we offer two in-house …

2019/11/20
Introducing AI into Electricity Load Forecasting: Deep Learning Optimizes Power Plants’ Operation

Introducing AI into Electricity Load Forecasting: Deep Learning Optimizes Power Plants’ Operation

In 2017, Toshiba Corporate RD Center’s system engineering laboratory won the top prize in the 1st Electricity Load Forecasting Technology Contest organized by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc…

2019/11/13
Exploring Cyber-Physical Systems with Toshiba’s Corporate Digitization CTO Hiroshi Yamamoto

Exploring Cyber-Physical Systems with Toshiba’s Corporate Digitization CTO Hiroshi Yamamoto

Throughout time, from the first cave dwellers to space exploration and beyond, humankind has sought to improve life through the relentless pursuit of innovation. That has certainly been the case in T…

2019/11/06