Hitachi Announces Alliance Program, Agrees to Cooperate with PTC to Link Engineering and Supply Chains
Hitachi, Japan’s second-largest IT services company in 2019 (according to IDC), announced the Lumada Alliance program on Nov. 4, 2020, to strengthen its collaboration with partners and expand globally. (linked from the end of this article)
Prior to this, on August 20, the company announced an agreement to collaborate with PTC, which is also one of its newly announced partners.(linked from the end of this article)
The collaboration between Hitachi, which has many factories and has a proven track record in the application of IT to Japanese manufacturing and other areas, and PTC, a major global vendor in the engineering chain, is likely to have a global impact in the future.
As noted in the 2020 Monozukuri White Paper, collaboration between the engineering chain and the supply chain is an important issue for Japan’s manufacturing industry in the future.
In Japan, digitalization of the engineering chain lags behind that of Europe and the United States, and as a result, cooperation with the supply chain has not been fully developed.
In this situation, a collaboration between Hitachi and PTC has been announced.
A summary of the announcement is as follows
- Hitachi and PTC agree to collaborate to provide next-generation solutions that seamlessly connect the manufacturing value chain and achieve total optimization
- As the first phase of the collaboration, currently working on a joint proposal to realize Okuma’s digital transformation
- Not only develop business together in the domestic manufacturing industry, but also plan to expand globally based on our experience in Japan.
And the three values provided by this collaboration are
- Establishing product traceability throughout the value chain
- Enabling data-driven, evidence-based manufacturing process change and product improvement
- Contribute to expand remote work in the “With/After Corona” era
There is a possibility that collaboration between Japanese IT vendors with strengths in the supply chain and overseas vendors with strengths in the engineering chain will continue in the future, and this trend will be closely watched.
Hitachi Announces Lumada Alliance Program on November 4, 2020
Hitachi Announces Agreement to Collaborate with PTC (Japanese)
