Hitachi, has announced the launch of a global Hitachi AI Factory, built on the NVIDIA AI Factory reference architecture. This centralized AI infrastructure is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI solutions across Hitachi’s core business sectors, including mobility, energy, industrial, and technology.
The AI Factory leverages the Hitachi iQ platform powered by NVIDIA HGX B200 systems with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Hitachi iQ M Series with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs, and the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform. This strategic initiative underscores Hitachi’s commitment to advancing AI that interacts seamlessly with the physical world and supports the expansion of HMAX – the company’s AI solution family addressing complex challenges across multiple industries.
By providing a unified, high-performance AI computing infrastructure, the AI Factory enables Hitachi teams worldwide to run advanced AI applications and workflows on NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform. This includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise for production-grade AI and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for simulation and digital twins with industrial-scale precision. The infrastructure supports rapid development of physical AI models capable of acquiring and interpreting data from real-world environments, determining next steps, and taking autonomous actions.
Toshiaki Tokunaga, President and CEO of Hitachi, highlighted the significance of this initiative, stating that leveraging Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA RTX PRO servers will accelerate AI innovation. He noted that these servers enhance reasoning and physical AI capabilities, enabling the development of digital twins, optimization of physical assets, and productivity improvements across business activities.
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The AI Factory spans the US, EMEA, and Japan, ensuring low-latency access to computing resources and seamless collaboration for Hitachi engineers globally. This interconnected network will enable the creation of a broad range of physical AI applications, driving greater efficiency, safety, and operational productivity across industries.
Jun Abe, General Manager of the Digital Systems and Services Division, said, “The strategic collaboration between Hitachi and NVIDIA is becoming a key engine for solving complex real-world problems and accelerating social innovation. Our collaboration leverages NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure to achieve both Digital Transformation (DX) and Ecological Transformation (GX) with solutions like Hitachi Rail’s HMAX, which is currently transforming rail operations and maintenance; Hitachi Vantara’s AI solutions portfolio, Hitachi iQ; and Hitachi’s liquid-cooled AI data centers, supporting our generative AI foundation. By establishing a global NVIDIA AI Factory, we can now operate as a true ‘One Hitachi’ across regions and organizations. This synergy will accelerate physical AI innovations, as exemplified by HMAX.”
Hitachi positions the AI Factory as a core element of its Lumada 3.0 vision, an operating model designed to solve business and societal challenges through co-created digital transformation. By combining AI technologies with deep domain expertise, Lumada 3.0 transforms data into actionable insights, optimizing operations and reducing inefficiencies.
Justin Boitano, Vice President of Enterprise AI Products at NVIDIA, added, “AI Factories are the engines of a new industrial revolution, converting enterprise data into autonomous intelligence for both software and the physical world. With NVIDIA’s accelerated compute and software, Hitachi’s AI Factory infrastructure provides a transformative platform for developing and deploying enterprise and physical AI.”
This initiative reinforces Hitachi’s commitment to using advanced technologies to drive innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence across industries.