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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 digi…

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
Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 1 -Redefine how Value is Created, Transform Product Creation

Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 1 -Redefine how Value is Created, Transform Product Creation

With a market capitalization of over $1 trillion*, Tesla is the frontrunner in the automotive industry. It has achieved this through innovation. In addition to their reliability as hardware, its cars …

2023/05/17
When designing a business, first design the future through people- and planet-centered Service Design

When designing a business, first design the future through people- and planet-centered Service Design

Today, technology is advancing at an exponential pace, and we face an increasingly complex social and business environment. In a world in which making products and services more sophisticated and mult…

2023/05/15
Building a quantum-secure future – Why the financial services sector need to upgrade their network infrastructure

Building a quantum-secure future – Why the financial services sector need to upgrade their network infrastructure

The arrival of powerful quantum computers promises to be a milestone moment, with the potential to disrupt computing as we know it. Many of the fundamental principles of cybersecurity we rely on will …

2023/05/08
Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part2 -The next step is to fly with them

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part2 -The next step is to fly with them

The aviation industry aims to reduce CO₂emissions from international flights by 15% from 2024 on, benchmarked against 2019, and to cut them to net zero by 2050. In Part 1 of this two-part article we r…

2023/04/19
Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

In October 2022, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN specialized agency that coordinates and develops international air navigation and travel, set new targets for reducing CO₂ emissi…

2023/04/07