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Hitachi, Ltd. Open Lab Yokohama 1F, 2F
| address | Yokohama City, Kanagawa prefecture |
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| Completion date | December 2016 |
| scale | 1,525㎡, approximately 178 seats |
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- The above information is at the time of completion.
A place for "co-creation" that realizes open innovation through a cycle of prototyping and value verification.
Hitachi, Ltd. engages in the world's most cutting-edge research and development based on its corporate philosophy of "contributing to society through the development of superior, original technologies and products."In order to realize a future where people can live safe and prosperous lives, we are globally expanding our "Social Innovation Business," which combines IT and OT (control technology) to provide advanced social infrastructure systems. In December 2016, we opened an "Open Lab" within the Yokohama Research Institute in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Through collaborative creation with customers, we aim to expand our social innovation business by researching and developing cutting-edge technologies that solve social issues.
Collaboration cafe
Collaboration cafe
Panoramic view of the cafe in the center of the open lab. Centered around a cafe based on the size and shape of the entrance building of Hitachi, Ltd.'s founding hut, a free work area and various customization labs will be placed around it. The furniture can be moved freely according to the activity and can also be used for research presentations and seminars. Can seat up to 130 people.
Collaboration cafe
Collaboration cafe
While brewing or drinking coffee, you can strike up a conversation and watch other members' activities. A visual and sensuous base for open labs.
Security operations lab
Security operations lab
The demo space in the back of the photo is a reproduction of a space that more closely resembles the customer's environment. You can make effective presentations using the large screen. In the foreground is the workspace, where you can discuss and consider while watching the demo. If you open the moving glass partition on the left of the photo, you can connect to the cafe.
Traffic analytics lab
Traffic analytics lab
Build a demonstration environment for a transportation system monitoring center.
Open automation lab
Open automation lab
In the center is a presentation workspace, and around it is an experiment space equipped with large 3D printers and actual industrial robots. Electric blinds are built into the partitions, allowing for an effective presentation of the experimental space.
Data analysis platform lab
Data analysis platform lab
By utilizing a vertically adjustable desk, discussions and considerations can be held in various postures and heights depending on the content of collaborative creation.
System modernizing lab
System modernizing lab
Presentations can be made using a 4-screen touch panel multi-monitor. The wall surface can also be actively used as a whiteboard.
project stage
project stage
Space exclusively for lab members. Sound-absorbing curtains can be used to quickly divide areas, and fixtures can also be rearranged. In addition, there is a sliding storage area under the stage that stores folding chairs for use during seminars at the collaboration cafe.
Project park
Project park
The project park, which seems to have been dug into the depths of the stage area, is a secret base for lab members. You can take off your shoes and have a conversation in a comfortable position.
Outer corridor
Outer corridor
An external corridor allows customers and collaborative creation partners to directly enter each laboratory. Lockers and benches are also available.
Glass moving partition
Glass moving partition
Each customized laboratory can be used to suit its purpose by opening and closing curtains, sliding walls within the laboratory, and moving glass partitions.
User's Voice
Hitachi, Ltd.
Mr. Shoichiro Fujiwara, Unit Leader, Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Department, Technology Management Center, Technology Strategy Office
I believe that the completion of the open lab is the result of collaborative creation between researchers, designers, and ITOKI. The Open Lab Management Committee takes measures based on the various opinions that have emerged since the start of operation, and continues to make improvements. Currently, communication between researchers is becoming more active, and the number of visitors visiting the facility is increasing. In addition, when customers come to visit us, we sometimes guide them to other labs in addition to the one they are looking for, and we are seeing a wide range of usage. We would like to continue to deepen our collaborative creation with our customers.
Comment
Hitachi, Ltd.'s Open Lab Yokohama was created through repeated discussions and verifications with the researchers and members who will actually use the facility, as a place to accelerate "collaborative creation" that realizes open innovation.
We use furniture and ICT to create a space where the lab's main purpose is to quickly run and repeat the prototyping and verification cycle. The space incorporates a design that stimulates new functions and senses, awakening the consciousness and actions of researchers who tend to be reclusive, and has become a place to put new ways of working into practice.
We believe that this lab is an innovation born out of collaboration between Hitachi,Ltd. and Itoki.
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Rie Nishioka