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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that it will invest some 22 billion yen to construct a total of eight new production buildings at its Kamakura Works (Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture), Koriyama Factory (Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture), and Electronics and Communication Systems Center (Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture), in support of the Japanese government’s Defense Buildup Plan.

Construction of the new buildings will be completed sequentially from April 2025.

Features of the New Buildings

Mitsubishi Electric expects to improve the quality and efficiency of its production operations

Mitsubishi Electric expects to improve the quality and efficiency of its production operations by deploying Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) for enhanced automation and logistics efficiency.

In addition, strong collaboration between the production facilities will be realized by adopting an Engineering Chain Management (ECM) platform that incorporates 3D data and bill of materials (BOM) information, as well as manufacturing initiatives that make use of IoT technologies for digital transformation.

Extensive measures to minimize CO2 emissions

Furthermore, extensive measures to minimize CO2 emissions will realize next-generation factories that contribute to global decarbonization.

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