Cost savings (1st May 2008)

A plant wide energy efficiency installation is saving £120 000 a year in the woodworking shops at door and mouldings company BLP in Doncaster. The system is based on variable speed drives, PLCs and HMIs from Mitsubishi

From Energy management

  Snakeoil and disbelief (1st May 2008)

No matter how you focus on energy issues associated with the operation of building and manufacturing environments, the inclusion of inverter drives makes real sense says Jeff Whiting of Mitsubishi Electric

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Full transparency assured (26th March 2008)

Follmann & Co, manufacturer of chemical products for paper and textile finishing, has installed a highly flexible cooling, storage and filling plant for adhesives that can be reconfigured, expanded and relocated at any time. Confident that the demanding control and process visualisation tasks could be performed without a conventional centralised process control system, the company opted for compact plcs and hmi control terminals from Mitsubishi Electric...

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  Full transparency assured (1st March 2008)

Follmann & Co, manufacturer of chemical products for paper and textile finishing, has installed a highly flexible cooling, storage and filling plant for adhesives that can be reconfigured, expanded and relocated at any

From Plant process control

  Hand dryers count ten seconds to blast off (1st March 2008)

Instead of evaporating moisture from wet hands like conventional dryers, the Mitsubishi Jet Towel uses two high speed wafer thin airflows to blast hands dry. The system, which atomises and collects the water, means hand

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  Efficiency drive (1st January 2008)

A local government building in the Finnish city of Tampere has networked variable speed fan drives into its heating and ventilating system during a major refit of the 40-year old building.

From Energy management

  Robot role (1st September 2007)

Mitsubishi Electric has become a Technology Partner to Sheffield University's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing.

From Production engineering

  Intelligent automation platform (1st September 2007)

Mitsubishi has introduced the iQ platform, a system that enables open communication between factory equipment and business.

From Plant process control

Not just hot air (20th August 2007)

A workplace of 300 employees uses the equivalent of 16 trees per month in paper washroom towels, according to Mitsubishi's Peter Maye...

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  Driving forward (1st July 2007)

Mitsubishi Electric AC drives are continuing to develop. Their increasing intelligence opens up the possibility of local process control. The effect is drives will adopt some PLC functionality.

From Plant process control

  Industrial controller (1st July 2007)

Building projects for the London Olympics are driving demand for aggregates through the roof, dredger captains need to discharge their cargos efficiently so that they can get back out to sea without missing a tide. Re

From Plant process control

  The deadliest deadline (1st July 2007)

Sometimes we need an approaching deadline to galvanise us into action. But there isn't a natural deadline for reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Mitsubishi's Energy Spokesman, Jeff Whiting contemplates manu

From Energy management

  Free-standing cubical drives (1st May 2007)

Mitsubishi Electric has announced the launch of a new series of spacesaving free-standing cubicle drives.

From Plant process control

  Education is key to fighting global warming (1st May 2007)

All developed and post-industrial societies seem to have problems attracting young people into science and engineering careers, while developing economies have the opposite problem of not being able to build technical u

From Energy management

  Let's avoid climate change hijacking (1st March 2007)

The CBI (Confederation of British Industry) is joining the fight against global warming, perhaps a little late but better than never. Mitsubishi Electric's Energy Spokesman Jeff Whiting welcomes them to the energy lobby, but

From Energy management

  Sustainable solutions outlined in brochure (1st March 2007)

Climate change is big news these days with CO2 emissions mentioned almost daily on TV and in the Press. For those involved in designing, building, maintaining or running premises, this places a strategic focus on the energy u

From Energy management

  Robot helps protect humans from RSI risks (1st March 2007)

Three powerful robots are protecting human workers from the risks of repetitive strain injuries at a manufacturer of suspended flooring panels.

Suspended flooring systems are frequently used in new-build offices and other wo

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  Save manufacturing and we'll save the planet (1st January 2007)

Energy was one of the big news stories of 2006, and it will continue to be so throughout 2007 – and probably long after that too.

We now all have a good grip on the basics of global warming and its environmental consequences

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Simple set-up and management of automation projects (23rd October 2006)

Mitsubishi has launched Projxstudio, a new management tool for accessing MELSOFT applications. It provides a system view of the automation controllers along with simple access to the associated codes and programming tools. The company says it is a single environment well equipped to manage complex automation projects.

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  Scotland trials automation service (1st September 2006)

Mitsubishi Electric has joined forces with Dowding and Mills, to create an Automation Service Centre for Scotland, at Bellshill, near Glasgow.

From Production engineering

  Scaleable control (1st July 2006)

Mitsubishi Electric has expanded its Q series programmable automation contgroller platform with a new high-availability, redundant controller for system-critical applications

From Plant process control

  Small drive, big features (1st July 2006)

Mitsubishi Electric has now unveiled three smaller sizes of its F700 series, extending the range from the existing 0.7kW model down to 0.2kW sizes. These new additions allow the rnage to cover virtually every area of industry with options from 0.2kW

From Energy management

New Mitsubishi Q series programmable automation controller (23rd May 2006)

Mitsubishi Electric has expanded its Q series programmable automation controller platform with a new high-availability, redundant controller for system critical applications.

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  Small drives, large range (1st May 2006)

Following the expansion of Mitsubishi Electric's F700 series with 15 larger sizes, the company has unveiled three smaller sizes, extending the range from the existing 0.7 kW model down to 0.2kW sizes. This means Mitsubishi now provides a range of sin

From Energy management

  Jig increases throughput (1st May 2006)

A new jig for testing critical wing components has allowed an airliner wing builder to increase throughput by 75%.

From Production engineering

  Dedicated industrial modems (1st May 2006)

Mitsubishi Electric has introduced a line of intelligent industrial modems for its Melsec FX compact PLCs and Alpha XL micro controllers.

From Plant process control

  Lock-picking robots (1st March 2006)

When lock maker Kaba wanted to boost production of inline lock cylinders and door locks at its Herzogenburg, Austria, site, it turned to Mitsubishi for state-of-the-art robotics.

From Production engineering

  Cut noise & energy (1st January 2006)

A plant modification at a Birmingham-based automotive supplier has reduced noise and reduced energy consumption by 65 per cent. Car mirror maker, Flabeg, buys in flat glass and after numerous production processes, dries the finished product with an a

From Energy management

  Fitting application for SCADA system (1st January 2006)

Amodest project to automate a compressor house has been expanded to embrace all of Yorkshire Fittings' Leeds factory.

From Production engineering

  Bring mimics to life (1st January 2006)

The large, high resolution screens, fast graphics handling capability and large memory of Mitsubishi Electric's E1000 HMI range are said to bring plant mimics to life.

From Plant process control

Driving food forward (1st January 2006)

Engineers in food processing have used variable speed drives for years. Now the advanced technology stands to make even modest manufacturing systems truly intelligent and energy efficient. Guy Kennett of Mitsubishi Electric explains.

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Driving efficiency forward (1st January 2006)

Mitsubishi Electric has expanded its F700 series of variable speed drives for electric motors with 15 larger sizes up to 530kW.

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PLCs – Mitsubishi’s new Generation X (30th November 2005)

Mitsubishi launched its next generation compact PLC in October, billing it as the culmination of quarter of a century’s R&D efforts.

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  A smart solution (1st November 2005)

Mitsubishi Electric's MX4 Energy aM&T software system will help industry as it looks to address increasingly serious energy management issues

From Plant process control

  Power leads to corruption (1st September 2005)

There is increasing pressure to conserve energy by fitting variable speed drives, but the equipment can cause corruption of the mains supply. Until recently the solution has been fitting a small filter to each drive, but Guy Kennett of Mitsubishi Ele

From Plant process control

  Forward vision (1st July 2005)

Keeping key staff informed with up-to-the minute data is vital, yet often difficult. A new shop floor visualisation programme from Mitsubishi Electric takes an intuitive and comprehensive approach Vision 1000 offers top to bottom data display, analys

From Production engineering

  In depth info (1st May 2005)

Details on the F700 Variable Speed Drive, recently launched by Mitsubishi, are now available in a brochure that explains how and why it claims to reset the benchmarks for energy saving and performance dynamics.

From Energy management

  Fast analysis of pollution (1st May 2005)

Measurement Systems of Austria has automated the complex, time consuming task of measuring industrial emissions for dioxins using simple control components from Mitsubishi Electric

From Plant process control

Win a dream day (1st May 2005)

Whatever your wildest ambition, Mitsubishi Electric may soon be helping you fulfil it. Whether you want to scream around Brands Hatch with your foot to the floor of a Ferrari, put a Challenger tank through its paces or paintball your ‘mates’ to obliv

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  ECA HELP (1st March 2005)

Melsmart Energy Centre reports that the uptake of interest-free loans for energy saving projects is just beginning to hit its stride, 12-months after the announcement of the scheme by the Carbon Trust.

From Energy management

  Emissions – trade or fade (1st January 2005)

Emissions trading stands to floor any number of companies, reckons Guy Kennett of the Melsmart Energy Centre. However, there is potential to profit from the new regime, if you plan ahead and understand the rules of this new game.

From Production engineering

  Servo range (1st January 2005)

Mitsubishi Electric has extended its Super Servo amplifiers and motors range with the addition of units up to 22kW. The MR-J2 Super series starts at 50W and is available in 200 and 400V versions.

From Production engineering

  Savings and enhanced power control strategies (1st September 2004)

Aseries of variable speed drives from Mitsubishi Electric is designed to set new benchmarks for energy saving.

From Production engineering

  POOL SAVINGS (1st January 2004)

North Somerset Councils largest swimming pool has achieved a four-month payback on investment in energy saving equipment at its Hutton Moor complex.

From Energy management

  AUTO PUFFER STOPS ARC (1st November 2003)

In the event of a massive power overload, WS Series circuit breakers from Mitsubishi Electric disconnect load from supply instantly, securely and reliably. At the core of the circuit breakers design is the Polymer Ablation type Auto-Puffer. This is m

From Plant process control

  Active harmony (1st September 2003)

Active harmonic filters have been added to Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems portfolio of drives equipment, following a sourcing agreement with AIM Europe, one of the leading developers of this technology. Chris Cusick, Mitsubishis drives manage

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