Hitachi launches Lumada Inspection Insights

KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 (Bernama) -- Hitachi Ltd has announced the launch of Lumada Inspection Insights, its end-to-end portfolio of digital solutions for the inspection, monitoring, and optimisation of critical assets.

Pioneered by Hitachi Energy and Hitachi Vantara, Lumada Inspection Insights enables customers to automate asset inspection, support sustainability goals, improve physical security, and reduce risks and impacts related to storms or fires by using powerful artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse photographs and video, including LiDAR, thermal and satellite imagery.

According to a statement, the launch of the new portfolio is fully aligned with Hitachi’s Mid-term Management Plan 2024 announced last month by Keiji Kojima, President & CEO, Hitachi Ltd.

In the Plan, Hitachi has set out its growth strategy and commitment to strengthening its digital and green portfolio, which is centred on the Lumada ecosystem. Central to Hitachi’s commitment to social innovation, the Lumada ecosystem is accelerating the journey towards sustainable society through the data-driven cycle of value co-creation with customers. The company is also focused on growing its IT/OT/Products business through constant portfolio transformation.

The new Lumada Inspection Insights portfolio addresses various root causes of failures and forced shutdowns by deploying AI and machine learning (ML) to analyse a wide spectrum of image types, assets and risks. Predictive analytics assesses the risks to operations or environment, and organisations can streamline remediation before outages occur.

Available as a comprehensive solution or standalone, the portfolio’s four core applications are Hitachi Image Based Inspections, Hitachi Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring, Hitachi Vegetation Manager, and Hitachi Map, representing the company’s latest advancements in its growing Data Operations (DataOps) and Industrial IoT offerings.

Massimo Danieli, Managing Director of Hitachi Energy’s Grid Automation business said: “In collaboration with Hitachi Vantara, we are delighted to launch the Lumada Inspection Insights portfolio, which gives industrial organisations the tools they need to get the right information to the right teams when they need it most. The result is improved reliability, safety, and sustainability.”

Lumada Inspection Insights features comprehensive, microservices-based capabilities that allow visibility of assets and factors such as current state, asset health, and encroachment, in a “single pane of glass” actionable view, from a variety of sources. With these unified insights, organisations can improve safety, reliability, and agility.

Hitachi is exhibiting Lumada Inspection Insights at DISTRIBUTECH INTERNATIONAL 2022, which is held from May 23 at Dallas, Texas, United States.

-- BERNAMA