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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
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
How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 2 -Our mission to improve AI literacy

How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 2 -Our mission to improve AI literacy

The phrase “garbage in, garbage out,” GIGO, is a useful reminder that AI systems trained on low quality data will pick up unwanted features, resulting in poorly realized AI models. In Part 1, we looke…

2023/03/23
How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 1　- Prepping Data, Ethics and the Law—Identifying the Key Concerns

How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 1　- Prepping Data, Ethics and the Law—Identifying the Key Concerns

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a part of our collective vocabulary for a while now, and its technological advances are irreversible. We need to think deeply about these advances, on the assumpt…

2023/03/16
The story behind Toshiba’s multi-decade campaign to champion Japanese culture in the UK

The story behind Toshiba’s multi-decade campaign to champion Japanese culture in the UK

On display in The Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art of London’s Victoria Albert (VA) museum, stands a suit of armour in Haramaki style. It’s an arresting sight; fashioned from deep blues, golds, and a …

2023/03/10
Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market

Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market

In July 2020, torrential rains swept through western and northern Japan, and in the following month a temperature of 54.4C was recorded in California’s Death Valley, the highest ever recorded on the p…

2023/01/25
Digitally Connecting Hardware and Software – Toshiba’s Efforts to Solve Sustainability Issues

Digitally Connecting Hardware and Software – Toshiba’s Efforts to Solve Sustainability Issues

“DX is no longer a fad, it is a trend.” These were the words Mitsubishi Research Institute used in a report on the status of the corporate promotion of DX – digital transformation – and to summarize t…

2022/12/27
AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 2 -What Future Do AI Coordinators Envisage?

AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 2 -What Future Do AI Coordinators Envisage?

A circular economy emphasizes the repair, refurbishment, reuse and recycling of materials and products to the fullest extent possible, to promote sustainability. To promote this, the Ellen MacArthur F…

2022/11/22