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Hitachi awarded Authorised Engineering Organisation status by Transport for NSW, in Sydney Australia.

Photos from the Authorised Engineering Organisation Award Ceremony

Sydney, June 12, 2018 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, Hitachi) today announced that the company was awarded Authorised Engineering Organisation (AEO) status by the Asset Standards Authority (ASA), an independent unit of Transport for NSW (TfNSW) in Australia. This prestigious and well-deserved status consolidates the fact that the New South Wales (NSW) state government recognises the integrity and robustness of Hitachi's quality systems and management processes.

Transport infrastructure such as railway signalling systems need to meet stakeholders' expectations and provide value and safety to the customer through the entire lifecycle of the asset. In NSW Australia, the AEO Framework ensures that engineering and transport delivery services are delivered by capable and competent organisations.

The AEO Model is managed by the ASA, the division of TfNSW responsible for administering transport asset standards. Based on ASA guidance, which makes reference to international standards such as ISO55001 (Asset Management) *1 and ISO 15288*2, the "AEO Requirement" stipulates the necessary processes to meet the customer's requirements such as the product engineering management process*3. As a result of the assessment done by the ASA, the organisation recognised Hitachi's compliance with the AEO requirements and Hitachi was awarded AEO status with scope to supply engineering services (including design, manufacture, testing etc) for onboard systems for Automatic Train Protection (ATP) and Automatic Train Operation (ATO) systems.

Hitachi is contributing to the advancement of the Australian rail industry by supplying railway system solutions of high quality and reliability. As an AEO, Hitachi will continue to provide safe and reliable solutions to the NSW customer through its close working relationship with TfNSW.

Hitachi has supplied railway system solutions of high-quality and high reliability to the Australian market and attaining AEO status aligns with our objective of continuing to expand our railway systems business in Australia.

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ISO 55001 Asset management - Management systems - Requirements

*2

ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 Systems and software engineering - System life cycle processes

*3

The mandatory process to supply the product with user satisfaction and reliability such as Requirement Management, Product Safety Management, Product Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Management, Competence Management, Configuration Management and Resource Management

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers innovations that answer society's challenges, combining its operational technology, information technology, and products/systems. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal 2017 (ended March 31, 2018) totaled 9,368.6 billion yen ($88.4 billion). The Hitachi Group is an innovation partner for the IoT era, and it has approximately 307,000 employees worldwide. Through collaborative creation with customers, Hitachi is deploying Social Innovation Business using digital technologies in a broad range of sectors, including Power/Energy, Industry/Distribution/Water, Urban Development, and Finance/Social Infrastructure/Healthcare. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.