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16.11.2023
Mitsubishi Electric and Visual Components Form JV for 3D Simulators
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) have recently announced that it will partner with Visual Components headquartered in Espoo, Finland in a joint venture company, named ME Industrial Simulation Software Corporation, to develop and sell 3D simulators for manufacturing applications. Mitsubishi Electric and Visual Components will hold 70% and 30% stakes respectively in the company, which will begin operating on November 1st.
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14.11.2023
Factory-wide visualization streamlines utility management in the “new norm”
Mitsubishi Electric’s Nagoya Works, one of the company’s main factories developing and manufacturing industrial automation products and systems, introduced a smart visualisation solution to monitor utility data throughout the entire factory. The GENESIS64™ visualisation software, a solution for displaying data in process, infrastructure and manufacturing industries, was leveraged to systematically monitor real-time data remotely from equipment, such as operations and loads, helping to address issues raised by the “new norm”.
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27.09.2023
Mitsubishi Electric Launches Global Awareness Campaign About the Relevance of Factory Automation Systems
Mitsubishi Electric has started a global awareness campaign using a series of illustrative stories, each accompanied by a striking visual, aimed at a broad audience not only from the manufacturing industries. The company hopes to bring readers to understand the relevance of factory automation to them in their everyday lives, as well as providing manufacturers with a vision of a future enabled by the use of factory automation. The materials will be used in a variety of marketing activities, ranging from websites to exhibitions and advertisements.
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23.05.2023
Enabling Li-ion battery manufacturers to turn data into efficiency gains
The demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is continuing to skyrocket, driven by the growing market for more sustainable e-mobility solutions. For LIB cell manufacturers to get the most out of the current opportunities, they need to be able to quickly deliver high volumes of quality products while maintaining a low environmental impact. Klaus Petersen, Director – Automotive & Lithium Battery Industries, Factory Automation EMEA at Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., explains how digital technologies can help LIB manufacturers in this pursuit in the videocast “Lithium-Ion Batteries: From data to competitive advantage”.
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21.04.2023
Mitsubishi Electric and Ashdale Engineering celebrate 35 years of delivering advanced automation projects
Mitsubishi Electric and its Automation Solution Partner, Ashdale
Engineering, are celebrating 35 years of partnership, focused on
bringing highly customised, effective automation solutions to a
variety of industries in Northern Ireland. Spanning over three
decades that featured significant technical innovations, the
anniversary marks an occasion to look back at key achievements
reached by the two companies and how their relationship has grown.
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18.04.2023
Digital manufacturing technologies help to overcome global hurdles
In the last few years, the global manufacturing industry has faced
unprecedented challenges, driving companies to rethink how they
can maintain a competitive edge and maximise profitability. In these
testing times, how can manufacturers transform their operations to
meet customer demands and thrive in today as well as tomorrow’s
marketplace? This is the question that Hartmut Pütz, President -
Factory Automation EMEA at Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.,
answers in his exclusive videocast interview “Digital Manufacturing
in times of challenges”.
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01.03.2023
Visualization, monitoring and management of plant utilities result in savings of nearly EUR 70,000 over five years
Famiel Confectionery Co., Ltd., a confectionery manufacturer in Japan, has implemented energy management and demand monitoring at its main factory after introducing Mitsubishi Electric's energy saving data collection server "EcoWebServerIII". In addition to allowing Famiel to lower the contracted power supply level, the expansion of energy saving activities through real time visualization of electricity, gas, and water consumption led to a significant reduction of the overall utility costs – a total of some 10 million yen (approximately EUR 70,000 with exchange rate at 0.00696) over 5 years.
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07.02.2023
Mitsubishi Electric’s AI solution unleashes the full potential of shop floors
The innovative data science tool, MELSOFT MaiLab (Mitsubishi Electric AI Laboratory) helps companies drive productivity improvements on manufacturing lines. The new solution offers an intuitive, operator-centric platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically optimise operations while maximising equipment monitoring, visibility and diagnostics.
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23.01.2023
Opening the Door to Increased Productivity
Renowned door manufacturer Profile Developments has seen a threefold increase in its productivity, thanks to its latest collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric. By working closely together to create an advanced production line, control and precision in key production steps have been enhanced at the facility in Glin, Co. Limerick.
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05.01.2022
AGAMEDE revolutionises biotechnology and fights COVID-19
Developed at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, alongside Mitsubishi Electric, Labomatica and Perlan Technologies, the AGAMEDE robotic system was designed to significantly speed up the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2.

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