Hitachi

Hitachi, Ltd. (株式会社日立製作所 Kabushiki-gaisha Hitachi Seisakusho?) is a Japanese bunch amassed headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

The aggregation is the ancestor of the Hitachi Group (Hitachi Gurūpu) as allotment of the beyond DKB Group companies. Hitachi has been a adapted aggregation that has 11 business segments: Information and Telecommunication Systems, Electrical Systems, Social and Industrial Systems, Automotive Systems, Electronic Component Devices, Construction, and Financial services

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On the 2011 Forbes Global 2000 list, Hitachi was ranked cardinal 473.

Main products and services

Information and Telecommunication Systems

System integration

Outsourcing services

Software

Deejay arrangement subsystems

Servers

Mainframe computers

Telecommunications equipment

ATMs

Power Systems

ar, thermal and hydroelectric ability plants

Wind Ability Generation Systems

Social Infrastructure & Industrial Systems

Industrial Machinery and Plants

Escalators

Elevators

Railway Vehicles and Systems

Electronic Systems & Equipment

LCDs

Semiconductor accomplishment equipment

Ability tools

Test and altitude equipment

Medical electronics equipmen

Construction Machinery

Hydraulic Excavators

Mining Dump Trucks

Wheel Loaders

Mechanical & Hydraulic Cranes

High Functional Abstracts & Components

Wires and cables

Copper products

Semiconductor and Display Related Materials

Circuit boards and materials

Specialty steels

Magnetic abstracts and components

High brand casting apparatus and materials

Automotive Systems

Engine Management Systems

Drive Control Systems

Electric Powertrain Systems

Car Information Systems

Components & Devices

Hard Deejay Drives

Information Storage Media

LCDs

Batteries

Digital Media & Consumer Products

Optical deejay drives

Plasma and LCD Televisions

LCD projectors

Room air conditioners

Refrigerators

Washing machines

Air conditioning equipment

Financial Services

Leasing

Loan Guarantees

Others

Logistics

Property management

Hitachi Works

Hitachi Works is the oldest affiliate of the Hitachi Group and consists of three factories: Kaigan, Hitachi-LG Yamate, and Rinkai Works. Yamate Works, the oldest of the three factories, was founded in 1910 by Namihei Odaira as an electrical accessories adjustment and accomplishment facility. This ability was called Hitachi, afterwards the Hitachi Mine abreast Hitachi, Ibaraki, and is admired as the affiliated home of Hitachi, Ltd.

Many administration trainees intern at Hitachi Works afore actuality assuredly assigned to added Hitachi divisions. Chief administration cadre are generally participants in rotations at Hitachi Works for a few years as their career develops appear closing arch appointment stature. As a result, abounding of the chief managers of Hitachi Ltd accept anesthetized through Hitachi Works.

Spin-off entities from Hitachi Works accommodate Hitachi Cable (1956) and Hitachi Canadian Industries (1988).

Hitachi Rail

Hitachi Rail is complex in designing and accomplishment the abounding models of Shinkansen vehicles, including the accepted model, the N700 Alternation Shinkansen.3

Hitachi currently markets a accepted purpose alternation accepted as the "A-train" which utilises a double-skin abrasion activity anchored aluminium frame. The A-train abstraction can be customised to anatomy a driver alternation like the automatic 3000 alternation alternation for the Nanakuma Line, a bound accurate alternation like the E257 alternation or a accelerated alternation such as the Class 395 in assembly for UK use.3 In June 2008, Hitachi additionally submitted a breakable for the UK's Intercity Accurate Programme.4

Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries agreed to abet in the acreage of all-embracing intra-city railway systems bazaar in 2010.5

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) articles computer adamantine drives. There are 3 capital ranges: Hitachi Travelstar, Hitachi Deskstar and Hitachi Ultrastar.

On March 7th, 2011 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was purchased by Western Digital Corporation for $3.5 billion in banknote and $750 actor in Western Digital accepted stock.6

Hitachi Consulting

Hitachi Consulting is an all-embracing administration and technology consulting close with address in Dallas, Texas. It was founded in 2000 as accessory of the Japanese Hitachi Group and currently employs about 4,000 bodies in the U.S., Japan, the UK,India, Spain, Portugal and Germany.

Hitachi Plant Technologies

Hitachi Bulb Technologies, Ltd., forth with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, servicing, and beheading of amusing and automated basement machinery, mechatronics, air-conditioning systems, automated plants, and activity bulb accessories in Asia and internationally.

Hitachi Data Systems

Hitachi Abstracts Systems is a wholly endemic accessory of Hitachi, Ltd. Also accepted as HDS, it provides best-in-class advice technologies, casework and solutions, and offers a apartment of accouterments andcomputer application articles to advice companies administer their agenda data. Their flagship articles are the Virtual Accumulator Platform for action storage, Adaptable Modular Accumulator for baby and mid-sized companies, Hitachi Content Platform as the foundation of the Hitachi Abstracts Systems billow architecture, Hitachi Command Apartment for accumulator management, Hitachi TrueCopy for alien replication, and the Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc