Mitsubishi Electric Corporation News
The UK’s leadership on tackling climate change has delivered real change at home and led to a global transformation – but more should be done to reap the economic benefits that presents, Chris Skidmore has stated. Mission Zero, his Net Zero Review, makes 129 recommendations covering areas including the greater role that business can be supported to play, making better use of infrastructure and delivering more energy efficient homes. Everyone is designed to maximize economic investm...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it will invest some 26.7 billion yen (about US$ 222.5 million) in its subsidiary company - Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt. Ltd. to establish a factory for the production of room air conditioners and compressors in India. Local production, targeted to start in October 2025, is expected to help the company meet growing demand in the Indian market. Initial annual capacity will total 300,000 room air conditioner outdoor units and, beginning in December...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Ltd. announced that the two companies have reached a basic agreement to establish a joint venture to integrate their businesses in fields focused on power generator systems. carbon-neutrality It is expected that Mitsubishi Electric will be the majority shareholder and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will be the minority shareholder of the new company. Climate change caused by global warming has emerged as a common...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that two new 12.75-13.25 GHz (Low-Ku band) 70W (48.3dBm) gallium-nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs) will be added to the company's GaN HEMT lineup for satellite-communication (SATCOM) earth stations. data-transmission capacity The two GaN HEMT products, one for multi-carrier communications and the other for single-carrier communications, support increased data-transmission capacity and smaller earth stations ev...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced that it will organize an exhibition under the theme ‘Smart Society’ at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, USA from January 5 to 8. The booth (#3841) will be located in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Diverse global challenges During the show, Mitsubishi Electric will present its future vision and efforts to provide advanced technologies and integrated solutions in five challenge areas: Carbon neutral, Circular economy,...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that its new SLIMDIP-Z power semiconductor module, featuring an extra-high 30A rated current for use in inverter systems of home appliances, will be released in February 2023. The compact module will enable the SLIMDIP™ series to meet a wider range of power and size needs for inverter units, specifically by simplifying and downsizing systems for multifunctional and sophisticated products such as air conditioners, washing mach...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that the company will work closely with Japan Ministry of Defense (JMOD), as well as United Kingdom (UK) and Italian companies to help strengthen Japan’s security and defense industrial base with innovative technologies, responding to a joint statement by the Prime Ministers of Japan, United Kingdom and Italy on December 9, 2022 that the three countries will begin developing next-generation fighter aircraft under the Future Fighter Program. Mi...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that it will begin shipping samples of a new thermal sensor that is capable of measurements up to 200 °C, on February 1, 2023. The company’s existing MelDIR, launched in 2019, measures temperatures from -5 °C to 60 °C for applications including heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), security, people counting, and smart buildings. New MelDIR ‘MIR8060B3’ The new MelDIR ‘MIR8060B3’ uses advanced si...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its development of a quantum artificial intelligence (AI) technology that automatically designs and optimizes inference models to downsize the scale of computation with quantum neural networks. The new quantum AI technology can be integrated with classical machine learning frameworks for diverse solutions. THz imaging Mitsubishi Electric has confirmed that the technology can be incorporated into the world's first application for terahertz (THz) imag...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that its new KD-CXF series of contact image sensors (CISs) equipped with the industry’s deepest depth of field will launch in December 2022, beginning with the KD6R1064CXF-NL model. Contact image sensors (CISs) are widely used in manufacturing to inspect product surfaces for scratches, dirt, mis-coloring or mis-positioning of printed labels, plastic film, etc. Contact image sensors (CISs) Mitsubishi Electric’s CIS lineup comprises comp...
Geo is a net-positive energy home built for health, safety, and a sustainable, nature-inspired living experience. Designed by GIGA Construction (Austin, Texas), Geo is the first project in the Houston 610 loop to pair a Tesla solar roof with battery backup for electrical grid independence. The solar-powered residence keeps energy requirements low with an airtight envelope, insulation, LED lighting, and highly efficient appliances. Mitsubishi Electric’s variable-capacity heat pumps provide...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced it will launch ‘Automating the World’ as the global slogan for its Factory Automation Systems business. Commercial use of the slogan will begin worldwide on November 8, 2022. The new slogan expresses Mitsubishi Electric’s goal to leverage automation for the betterment of global society by combining advanced technology, experience and know-how, and customer support as a trusted partner. ‘Automating the World’ The sloga...
Mitsubishi Electric has launched a helpful new guide designed to help building owners and managers reduce the risk of their buildings becoming stranded assets due to not reaching the government’s environmental standards. The new white paper, ‘Stranded assets: A roadmap to net zero for new and existing buildings' is designed to provide building owners and managers with more insight on the importance of setting up their buildings for net zero and describes method...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric) announced that it has joined the Japan Center for Engagement and Remedy on Business and Human Rights (JaCER) as a Founding Member (Regular Member). JaCER was established in June 2022, in order to support and promote the redress of grievances by companies. JaCER provides a non-judicial ‘Engagement and Remedy Platform’ for grievance redress, based on the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. JaCER&...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced that certain provisions of an ISO9001 certification of the company’s Nagasaki Works (Togitsu-Cho, Nishisonogi-Gun, Nagasaki Prefecture), which had been withdrawn on September 16, 2021, was re-certified effective October 10, 2022, following a reassessment by LRQA Limited. Notification from the LRQA Limited was received on October 13, 2022.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announces that together with Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC) they have developed an electrical motor-design support system incorporating Mitsubishi Electric's Maisart® AI technology to dramatically shorten the time required to produce electrical motor designs that achieve the same performance as conventional design methods deployed manually by skilled engineers. TMEIC plans to adopt the system for internal operations in FY 2...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it will begin shipping samples of its new tunable laser-diode chip for use in optical transceivers of optical-fiber communication systems on October 1. The new chip is expected to help increase the capacity of digital coherent communication as well as reduce the size of optical transceivers. improving communication efficiency Data communication volume is rapidly increasing due to the spread of 5G mobile communication network...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announces, that effective August 29, 2022, per a special audit, LRQA Limited will rescind the suspension of the certification under the ISO 9001 international standard for quality management systems at the company’s Kobe Works (Kobe-city, Hyogo Prefecture) and Energy Systems Center (Kobe-city, Hyogo Prefecture). The LRQA Limited suspended this certification on June 22, 2022, in connection with certain quality-related conduct at the works/center, as announce...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that the IATF16949 certifications for the company’s Himeji Works (Himeji-city, Hyogo Prefecture) and Sanda Works (Sanda-city, Hyogo Prefecture) have been temporarily suspended by Bureau Veritas Japan Co., Ltd., effective July 29, in connection with the certain quality-related conduct at both of the works, as announced on May 25. corrective actions Mitsubishi Electric is currently taking corrective actions to enable the certificat...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that the ISO9001 certifications for the company’s Nagoya Works (Nagoya-city, Aichi Prefecture) have been partially withdrawn by Bureau Veritas Japan Co., Ltd., effective August 5, in connection with the quality-related conduct for motors manufactured in the Work's Shinshiro Factory, as announced on May 25. Mitsubishi Electric will make every effort to promptly reacquire certification in the area affected. The ISO 9001 certif...