Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Hitachi Rail’s lighthouse digital factory officially opened today in Maryland, representing a strategic investment by Hitachi Group in North America. The new carbon neutral factory, featuring over $30M in digital enhancements, is set to deliver railcars for customers across North America, including metros in the Washington DC area, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The $100M 307,000 sq. ft. site, operating with zero landfill waste from day one, was officially opened on September 8th by Executive Chairman of Hitachi, Ltd. Toshiaki Higashihara, President & CEO of Hitachi, Ltd. Toshiaki Tokunaga and Group CEO of Hitachi Rail, Giuseppe Marino.
The lighthouse factory will also include a demonstration of One Hitachi’s technologies via an immersive and interactive customer experience centre. Visitors will be able to learn about the plant’s digital enhancements to optimize quality and delivery, as well as the business’ wider solutions from modern signaling to its pioneering HMAX platform, which uses AI to optimize railway assets – an application of Lumada 3.0.*
By showcasing powerful digital and transformative technologies in this factory for customers and partners, the Hitachi Group aims to address customer challenges across North America and beyond as One Hitachi, further expanding and deploying HMAX across a wide range of industries and business sectors.
Hitachi Rail’s lighthouse digital factory officially opened today in Maryland, representing a strategic investment by Hitachi Group in North America. The new carbon neutral factory, featuring over $30M in digital enhancements, is set to deliver railcars for customers across North America, including metros in the Washington DC area, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The $100M 307,000 sq. ft. site, operating with zero landfill waste from day one, was officially opened on September 8th by Executive Chairman of Hitachi, Ltd. Toshiaki Higashihara, President & CEO of Hitachi, Ltd. Toshiaki Tokunaga and Group CEO of Hitachi Rail, Giuseppe Marino.
The lighthouse factory will also include a demonstration of One Hitachi’s technologies via an immersive and interactive customer experience centre. Visitors will be able to learn about the plant’s digital enhancements to optimize quality and delivery, as well as the business’ wider solutions from modern signaling to its pioneering HMAX platform, which uses AI to optimize railway assets – an application of Lumada 3.0.*
By showcasing powerful digital and transformative technologies in this factory for customers and partners, the Hitachi Group aims to address customer challenges across North America and beyond as One Hitachi, further expanding and deploying HMAX across a wide range of industries and business sectors.
