Hitachi Rail is set to become the first transportation company in the world to utilise NVIDIA’s new IGX Thor platform within its AI-led digital asset management platform, HMAX.
The new IGX Thor platform aims to provide higher AI compute and better connectivity for Hitachi Rail’s suite of HMAX products, enabling Hitachi Rail to offer customers real-time edge aI processing for mission critical applications.
By integrating NVIDIA’s IGX Thor platform within its own HMAX platform; Hitachi aims to allow for real time processing of large volumes of data at the edge (on trains or infrastructure), which without IGX Thor would take up to ten days to be processed.
Giuseppe Marino, Group CEO of Hitachi Rail, said:, said:AI and data are transforming railways. By adopting NVIDIA IGX Thor, we are bringing the world’s most powerful industrial-grade, real-time AI performance directly to the edge, enabling operators to better optimise their railways and infrastructure. This capability will strengthen reliability, efficiency and optimisation for passengers and operators alike.
Hitachi first launched HMAX in September 2024 in accordance with its broader programme to apply trusted AI and data technologies across the transport ecosystem.
The company officially opened its 100 million USD lighthouse digital factory just outside Washington DC in September 2025, which is looking to manufacture new, high quality metro trains for north America.
