KEY POINTS

  • Hitachi expands HMAX by Hitachi with HMAX Data Center, HMAX Cyber, HMAX Data Fabric and HMAX AI Operations
  • New lineup targets physical AI deployment across social infrastructure, data centers, cybersecurity and enterprise system integration
  • Expansion builds on Hitachi's IT, OT and product capabilities as labor shortages raise demand for autonomous operations
Hitachi expands HMAX with data center and cybersecurity offerings
Hitachi outlines the HMAX solution portfolio architecture. Note: Japanese text in the original image from press release has been translated into English by our editorial team.

Hitachi Ltd. said on September 3 it had expanded its next-generation "HMAX by Hitachi" portfolio with a new offering for data center operators and three common solutions for use across multiple domains and environments, as it looks to accelerate real-world deployment of physical AI in social infrastructure.

The additions are "HMAX Data Center," a domain-specific solution for data center operators, and the common solutions "HMAX Cyber," "HMAX Data Fabric" and "HMAX AI Operations," which support not only physical AI use within HMAX but also integration of companies' existing systems across different domains and environments.

HMAX Data Center provides a one-stop set of solutions covering autonomous operation and maintenance of data center-supporting infrastructure through overall optimization. The offering combines operational know-how from the Hitachi group with physical AI.

HMAX Cyber is an operational resilience service designed to protect customer systems from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and support business continuity. It combines frontier AI developed with global partners, operational and defensive knowledge built up at social infrastructure sites, and experience from Hitachi's Forward Deployed Engineer, or FDE, teams. The service includes the categories "Govern & Identify," "Manage" and "Recover."

HMAX Data Fabric serves as a data foundation that organizes diverse field data and tacit knowledge held by experienced workers based on ontology, allowing the information to be stored and shared as knowledge assets that AI can understand and use. Hitachi also said its Physical AI FDE Team works alongside customers in the field with expertise spanning IT, OT and products.

The company framed the expansion against growing strains on social infrastructure operators. Facilities and systems requiring maintenance and management continue to increase, while labor shortages and a lack of skilled technicians have become more acute. Physical AI is expected to help address those issues by understanding conditions in the field and supporting autonomous judgment and control.

Hitachi said deploying physical AI requires the extraction, storage and integration of field data and tacit knowledge in forms AI can interpret, along with the infrastructure, security and data centers needed to support continuous operations and AI data processing.

The company said it expanded the HMAX lineup by drawing on strengths built over many years in IT, OT and products, and aims to continue broadening the portfolio so that it evolves into an "operating system" capable of autonomously controlling and optimizing social infrastructure as a whole.

Hitachi posted revenue of 10.5867 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended March 2026. As of March 31, 2026, the company had 606 consolidated subsidiaries and about 290,000 employees worldwide.

Originally published on jp.ibtimes.com