A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, and its strategy and thought leadership to develop the co-creation story in digital transformation of industry. The firm’s parent, Hitachi, has spun-off part of its Vantara business as a new company called Hitachi Digital Services to focus on IoT, allied to data analytics and generative AI software, and seek to deliver closer integration of information and operational technology (IT and OT) in the Industry 4.0 game.
