34500 Grand River Avenue
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
Phone 248.473.9117
Fax 248.473.8420
In 1989, Hitachi America R&D opened its first lab, the Automotive Products Research Laboratory (APL), in Michigan.
APL's research concentrates on low-emission vehicle components and automotive electronics for the North American market in collaboration with Hitachi Automotive Products (USA), Inc. We are strategically located in the Motor City to be close to our main U.S. automotive customers. This will allow closer interaction for engineering, research and direct interfacing with our local customers. The scope of the technical work is to introduce new concepts for vehicle electronics and emission reducing components. Our activities include projects on embedded system development for automotive controllers, system modeling, vehicle navigation and emission related components.
APL consists of many full time researchers with at least a Master's degree in engineering. Our lab also operates an internship program for university students that are enrolled in advanced engineering or science. Our engineers have access to our state of the art facilities such as a simulation lab, engine dynamometers, exhaust emission lab and an EMC test facility.
750 Central Expressway
MS 3201
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Phone 408.970.5931
Fax 408.327.3351
In 1989, Hitachi America R&D opened its first lab, the Automotive Products Research Laboratory (APL), in Michigan.
SAN Solution Laboratory (SNSL) was established in 1999 in Santa Clara, California. It has been developing SAN solutions called "Storage Server".
750 Central Expressway
MS 3201
Santa Clara, CA 95050
The wireless systems research lab (WSRL) was formed in April, 2005 and is researching next-generation wireless technology for productization by Hitachi business units in the 4-5 year horizon. The initial focus of the lab is on reliable wireless LANs for video transmission in digital homes of the future.
The lab has a team of researchers co-located with Hitachi Global Storage, Inc. in San Jose, California and works closely with researchers in Hitachi's central research lab in Tokyo. WSRL has strong ties with local academic institutions including Stanford professors Andrea J. Goldsmith and Prof. John M. Cioffi, Hitachi America Professor of Engineering.
750 Central Expressway
MS 3201
Santa Clara, CA 95050
The Harmonious Computing Project (HARC) was created in 2004 in Santa Clara. Hitachi's "Harmonious Computing" is a set of technologies to allow its servers, networks and storage to operate in an integrated and flexible way, automatically recovering from failures and dynamically adapting to the workload, reducing the management burden and the cost of ownership. Standards are an important component of Harmonious Computing, and the project has actively participated in a number of organizations such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and in the Open Grid Forum (OGF). This project has also conducted technical marketing activities, collecting functional requirements for Harmonious Computing products.