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Information and Control Systems

Hitachi

About Information and control systems company

Business fields

Information and control systems company drives the emergence of a wealthy social environment in every field of industry.


Omika's systems support social infrastructures that are intimately related to your everyday life

Water treatment technologies and water distribution control bring you clean water from the faucet.

Precise control technologies contribute to the superior production of steel, one of the fundamental materials modern society depends on.

The precise control of heavy train operations keeps commuter trains exactly on schedule.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at work in a manufacturing field.

COMTRAC (Computer-aided Traffic Control System) supporting Japan's main artery traffic of the Shinkansen bullet train.

The stable supply of electric power supports your varied and convenient lifestyle.

Accurate road information makes your driving safe and comfortable.

The servers and controllers are used to control social infrastructures reliably and securely.

History highlights

1969
  • Hitachi Omika founded to manufacture control systems.
1970
  • Hitachi control computer, 500, developed.
1971
  • Japan's first nuclear power plant control systems completed.
  • New Tokaido Line, Shinkansen, traffic control systems, COMTRAC, completed.
1973
  • Central load dispatching systems completed.
1975
  • Hitachi Control Computer, 80, developed.
  • The world's first reversible cold-mill shape control systems developed.
1976
  • The automatic water treatment control systems, AQUAMAX, completed.
1977
  • Structured programming language, SPL, developed for control developed.
1978
  • The world's first automatic digital boiler controller, D-ABC, developed.
1980
  • The first newspaper production control systems completed.
1981
  • Factory automation computer, SHOPCON, completed.
1982
  • Hitachi Control computer, V90/50, developed.
1983
  • Centralized, intelligent monitoring and control systems for nuclear power plant data acquisition, NUCAMM-80, developed.
1984
  • Programmable logic controller, Hitachi S10/2, developed.
1987
  • Engineering workstation, 2050G, developed.
1989
  • Integrated electricity-instrumentation-computer control, EIC, systems completed.
  • 100-Mbps multimedia local area network, LAN, developed.
1991
  • Fault tolerant server developed.
1994
  • ISO 9001 certified.
  • Autonomous decentralized systems, ADS, win Ichimura Sangyo prize.
1995
  • New Shinkansen traffic control systems, COSMOS, completed.
1996
  • Control server, HF-W, developed.
  • ISO 14001 certified.
  • Urban train control systems, ATOS, completed.
1997
  • Real time controller, R600, developed.
  • Image processing PC-board, IP-5000, developed.
1998
  • Power plant control systems, HIACS-5000M, developed.
1999
  • Information and Control Systems Division started.
2000
  • Controller for Proton-beam cancer treatment equipment completed.
  • Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems completed.
2001
  • Our division changed from the Power and Electric Equipment Group to the System Solutions Group.
  • The power and transportation areas reorganized, an attempt to provide total solutions for systems ranging from information to control ones.
  • Smartcard management systems completed.
  • A member of our division won a gold medal at 36th World Skills Competition(Trade:Industrial Wiring).
2002
  • Phase I for the new MARS that supports passenger operation completed.
2003
  • Real-time control server, RS90/220, developed.
  • Consumer charge system package compatible with power and liberation, CURSUS-BC, completed.
  • Controller, R700, developed.
2004
  • Our Tokyo's Divisions are integrated in the Shinagawa Intercity Bldg.
2005
  • Information control platform, BladeSymphony CF, developed.
2009
  • Our Tokyo's Divisions moves from Shinagawa Intercity Bldg to the second annex in Hitachi Omori.
  • Information and control systems company started.