Characteristic of Hitachi Consulting

1. Hitachi Energy Solutions

Hitachi Energy & Environmental Efficiency is an intelligent, IoT
solution that collects data and applies analytics to determine optimal usage of
assets, optimize controls and manage energy at the enterprise level.
Organizations are seeking ways to reduce energy consumption, lower
operational expenses and comply with regulatory requirements while also
striving to meet sustainability targets. Many do not have visibility into energy
usage and have limited capability to understand if facilities are operating
optimally.
Hitachi Energy & Environmental Efficiency is based on an innovative
IoT platform that employs edge technologies to gather data and applies
analytics and predictive modeling to evaluate and monitor energy use in real-
time. It enables organizations to track energy usage, actively manage energy
and improve operational efficiency.
Key Benefits:
• Gain insight into operations and understand energy usage.
• Transform buildings and assets to be more dynamic and efficient.
• Achieve energy savings and sustainability goals.
• Reduce energy usage and associated operational costs.
• Extend asset life with improved visibility into equipment health and
performance.
• Measure energy use in real- time.

2. Hitachi Optimized Factory

Hitachi Optimized Factory improves operating efficiencies by utilizing
a cost-effective, scalable technology platform that enables data-driven
decision-making and continuous process improvements.
To compete globally, manufacturers must improve operational
efficiency, on-time delivery rates, product quality and manufacturing
flexibility. Emerging challenges such as the demand for customized products,
faster time-to-market for new products and increasing reliance on a global
supply chain call for data-based solutions. Hitachi Optimized Factory enables
timely decision-making through communication and continuous monitoring
of machines, people, materials and manufacturing processes. The solution
aggregates OT, IT and IoT data and uses predictive analytics and machine-
learning methods to provide actionable insights that can drive continuous
improvement and leaner operations.
Key Benefits:
• Enable digital transformation in line with Industry 4.0 directives.
• Increase customer satisfaction with product delivery and quality.
• Reduce material scrap, product returns and recalls.
• Increase labor productivity and equipment utilization.
• Improve worker health and safety.

3. Hitachi Predictive Maintenance

Hitachi Predictive Maintenance utilizes IoT techniques like reliability-
centered maintenance, overall equipment effectiveness, and analytics to
significantly improve maintenance efficiency, asset availability, and lifetime
value.
Limited visibility on asset status and performance, high costs of
managing aging legacy assets, high asset replacement costs and other
overhead contribute to overall maintenance spend. Predictive maintenance
could reduce cost by 10 to 40 percent and reduce downtime by 50 percent.
Hitachi Predictive Maintenance helps practitioners evaluate assets and
diagnose problems using monitoring tools like sensors and image analytics.
We leverage advanced algorithms and machine learning principles to deploy
repeatable maintenance solutions and an optimized asset lifecycle
maintenance plan.
Key Benefits:
• Improve overall asset availability, reliability and lifetime value.
• Optimize maintenance costs.
 • Increase overall plant productivity through improved asset utilization.
• Reduce over-reliance on human expertise and judgment.
• Improve plant safety and regulatory compliance.

4. Hitachi Process Intelligence

Hitachi Process Intelligence accelerates digital transformation by
combining advanced process and data analytics with decision support and
workflow to accelerate performance.
Many organizations struggle to capture the value of new technology
and undergo a digital transformation due to the complexity and lack of prior
experience in undertaking that journey. They also find it difficult to optimize
their processes and decide which processes to digitalize.
HPI combines advanced process and data analytics to support IoT-
driven decisions and accelerate digital transformation across industries. By
evaluating processes and digital capabilities, along with process
benchmarking and optimization, HPI delivers a digital transformation
roadmap that can help organizations to stay competitive and innovative.
Key Benefits:
• Future state models that can be tested, simulated and visualized.
• Digital transformation supported by a practical analytics and
governance system.
• Strategic performance measures to improve business decisions.
• IoT utilization to align key business KPIs.
• Decision support and workflows to enhance business performance

5. Hitachi Smart Spaces & Video Intelligence:

Hitachi Smart Space & Video Intelligence leverages video, IoT,
analytics, and AI technologies to deliver insights, and help public and private
organizations become more effective and improve quality of life.
 The world is changing quickly, with disruptive technologies
accelerating the rate of change and increasing complexity, while safety and
security is a top concern for all organizations. Businesses and organizations
need to leverage technology to stay competitive, deliver the experiences their
stakeholders expect, and keep people and property safe.
Hitachi Smart Spaces and Video Intelligence leverages IoT and video
data, secures data storage and management, along with data blending,
analytics and digital tools. The solution delivers insights, enables machines to
automate tasks effectively and empowers people to make smarter decisions.
Key Benefits:
• Improve safety and security with automated alerts, faster response
capability, and improved situational awareness.
• Achieve operational excellence, increase efficiency, and reduce costs
through intelligence.
• Enhance experiences with responsive spaces, while increasing quality
of productions and services.
• Understand behavior and trends to optimize space utilization,
messaging, and business operations in physical environments.

6. Hitachi Smart Cloud Solutions

Hitachi Smart Cloud Solutions are a key driver of digital
transformation empowering increased agility, speed to market and innovation
while lowering IT expenses.
Organizations look to the cloud to keep pace with evolving business
needs and constant demands to improve business performance while also
optimizing IT spending and reducing risks. Cloud computing is promising but
disruptive; migrating to the cloud takes proven approaches and a guiding
hand.
Hitachi Smart Cloud Solutions help to assess cloud transformation
readiness and identify high value opportunities, transform existing
applications and architecture, migrate applications to apt cloud service
models, and manage infrastructure and applications efficiently.
Key Benefits:
 • Provide holistic, rapid and cloud-agnostic assessment of application
portfolio.
• Accelerate cloud adoption and deployment.
• Lower total cost of ownership of IT assets.
• Improve agility and scalability to meet dynamic business needs.
• Enable operational and financial flexibility

7. Hitachi Regulatory Data Management:

With Hitachi Regulatory Data Management, global financial
organizations leverage data to build real-time risk solutions, increase
customer visibility, streamline regulatory reporting efforts and gather data-
driven insights.
While regulators seek to reduce overall market risk, global financial
organizations are challenged with managing increasing regulatory compliance
demands. Regulatory reporting through complex legacy systems is daunting
and costly for financial institutions seeking to manage their balance sheet.
Hitachi Regulatory Data Management addresses key business
challenges associated with increased regulation while providing a flexible
platform for the future. It helps global financial organizations to improve
operational efficiencies, optimize performance, assess the impact of
regulations on asset management and gain competitive advantage through
advanced analytics.
Key Benefits:
• Help position organizations to comply with constantly changing
regulatory requirements.
• Achieve cost-saving operational efficiencies through better use of
quality data.
• Leverage advanced analytics to make fact-based decisions and gain
competitive advantage.