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Business and Human Rights – The Challenge for Toshiba “Committed to People, Committed to the Future.”

Business and Human Rights – The Challenge for Toshiba “Committed to People, Committed to the Future.”

ESG management, with its emphasis on environmental, social and governance issues, is today an integral part of business. Activities that address measures against climate change and to protect against …

2023/09/04
Unleashing Mexico’s Power: Toshiba de Mexico’s Impact on a Thriving Nation

Unleashing Mexico’s Power: Toshiba de Mexico’s Impact on a Thriving Nation

Mexico stands at a pivotal moment, with the energy sector holding the key to addressing the nations pressing social challenges. With a population of 127 million, the country is experiencing steady gro…

2023/08/31
Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part2 -Reducing AI training data while improving performance

Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part2 -Reducing AI training data while improving performance

AI-based image recognition is already part of our lives. What is not often realized is that to get it to work with a high degree of accuracy requires extensive training with large volumes of data. Thi…

2023/08/23
Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part 1 -AI Image Recognition No Longer Needs Huge Volumes of Training Data

Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part 1 -AI Image Recognition No Longer Needs Huge Volumes of Training Data

The market for AI is expanding rapidly in Japan. Some predict that by 2025, it will swell to 1.9 trillion yen, about double the FY 2020 level, as AI is increasingly used to solve social issues. In Mar…

2023/08/09
Market Dominant Toshiba’s Ceramic Balls: Driving Electrification of Mobility with AI Quality Inspection System

Market Dominant Toshiba’s Ceramic Balls: Driving Electrification of Mobility with AI Quality Inspection System

The more people use electric vehicles (EVs), the closer we get to carbon neutrality, and thankfully, sales for these vehicles have been growing worldwide in recent years. One issue that can occur with…

2023/07/19
Young Technicians on the Frontlines of Manufacturing Hone Their Skills in the National Skills Competition Japan – Skills Required in the Digital Age

Young Technicians on the Frontlines of Manufacturing Hone Their Skills in the National Skills Competition Japan – Skills Required in the Digital Age

With the advance of digitalization, it has become commonplace to do everything from communicating to shopping and operating electronic equipment digitally. Digitalization has many advantages, such as …

2023/07/05
How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

If we are going to counter climate change, its droughts, heat waves and torrential rain, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero, and fast. Over 150 countries have target years for realizing c…

2023/06/22
Toshiba rides the coming wave of industrial IoT standardization

Toshiba rides the coming wave of industrial IoT standardization

‘What kind of manufacturing company is Toshiba aiming to become?’   Josh Kataoka who works at Toshiba’s Digital Innovation Technology Center, which handles the company’s development and delivery of di…

2023/06/12
Standing out through thought leadership and global co-creation -Efforts towards sustainability and technology standardization

Standing out through thought leadership and global co-creation -Efforts towards sustainability and technology standardization

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), as you may imagine, are systems that create value by linking the physical world that we live in, where tangible objects exist, to the cyber world, where the many kinds of…

2023/06/01
Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 2 -Utilization of Open Source Software Within and Outside the Company Increases Overall Strength

Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 2 -Utilization of Open Source Software Within and Outside the Company Increases Overall Strength

We are surrounded by products that offer additional or updated functions defined by software. One is the Apple Watch, hardware that uses sensors and an electrocardiogram app—software—to detect atrial …

2023/05/24