Case Study: Sumitomo Rubber Industries accelerates software development with Google Cloud Platform

Accelerating software development with Cloud Workstations and Gemini

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, a long-established innovator in rubber technology, faced growing development bottlenecks as its product simulations required complex custom software and multiple programming languages such as Fortran, Perl, and Java. To address these scaling challenges, the company explored Google Cloud Platform, specifically Cloud Workstations and generative AI tools, to improve its cloud-based development environment.

Google Cloud Platform implemented Cloud Workstations to streamline development and Gemini Code Assist to support developers learning and working across multiple languages. The result was faster software development, reduced time spent on repetitive tasks, and improved developer productivity by helping the team work more efficiently with less of a learning curve.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries

Masaya Tsunoda

Director of Unit 1, Research and Development Departmen