Japan is emerging as a global leader in industrial automation. Japanese original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are at the forefront of this trend, with 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’s given her unique insight into the region’s embedded systems and automation development trends. 

Release 24.12 highlights: cloud-native advancements, virtualization support, and hardware enablement.