Tracking Japanese Industrial Automation and DevSecOps Trends

Japan is emerging as a global leader in industrial automation. Japanese OEMs are at the forefront of this trend, bringing unique attention to efficient, intelligent, and automated industrial processes.

Chisa Nakata, president of Wind River® Japan since 2020, has helped Japanese customers with their mission-critical infrastructure across several industries, including aerospace and defense, industrial, medical, and automotive. That experience has given her unique insight into the region’s embedded systems and automation development trends, which she discusses in an extensive interview that touches on the convergence of IT and operational technology, the machine economy, and the increasing investment in the intelligent edge.

The initial convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) had little effect on industrial automation in Japan, Nakata explains. “But that’s no longer true. In the last five to eight years, embedded automation has adopted edge computing and complex software systems.”

Software is driving rapid change. “Industrial automation OEMs [have] begun to use software technology in their equipment design to make faster upgrades/updates, and that continues as the OEMs go to their next generation of industrial automation equipment.”

In this article, Nakata expands on how software development has evolved in Japan, the industrial automation market segments that are transforming fastest, and how Wind River Studio Developer is responding to serve the needs of industrial automation OEMs and the users who rely on their products.

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