productTo create a system that can neatly apply icing or other embellishments to cakes – regardless of irregularities and imperfections in the cakes’ surface – Quasar Automation has integrated a ceiling-mounted food safe robot from Mitsubishi Electric with a vision system and data processing software from Scorpion Vision.
newsImproved user-friendliness, expanded functionality, cost-efficiency and optimum integration into Mitsubishi Electric’s Automation portfolio are key features of the company’s new GOT2000 HMI series.
productAt this year’s trade press days in Karlsruhe, Mitsubishi Electric switched the focus to the bakery industry with its presentation “Increasing Productivity through Automation Technology in the Food Industry”.
productA new laser-based research and development cell has been installed at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Ansty, West Midlands, to help keep British manufacturing at the forefront of assembly, fabrication and joining technologies.
productDee Valley Water’s new £17m flagship water treatment works at Llwyn Onn is controlled from inlet to outlet by a Mitsubishi Electric system redundant, Q series modular PLC solution.
productSwiss specialist in robot-aided handling systems, Robotronic AG has developed a modular robot cell in house, termed Modular Robot Technology or MRT for short, which uses only Mitsubishi Electric robots.
productMitsubishi Electric’s first-time presence in the EfW (Energy from Waste) hall at the Resource Efficiency and Waste Management show (RWM) in Birmingham, UK, has been hailed as a success.
productAccording to Mitsubishi, robots are particularly well suited to the food processing industry. “They are very flexible and can hold several programmes in their memory so they are able to easily switch from one production task to another,” says the company’s John Rowley.
productMitsubishi Electric has expanded its iQ automation platform with the launch of two new ranges of controllers – the MELSEC iQ-R programmable automation controllers (PACs) and the MELSEC iQ-F range of compact PLCs. Each of the new products addresses different segments of the machine control, process control and automation markets, and both ranges benefit from unified interconnectivity with other iQ models, a unified programming environment and an improved user experience.
articleCyber-security has been a hot topic since the Stuxnet incident a few years ago. Previously it was thought that securing the ‘top end’ of an organisation was an adequate solution. This incident and others like it changed the security landscape and highlighted vulnerabilities in the de-facto automation architecture that previously had not been considered. Chris Evans, marketing & operations group manager at Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. Automation Systems Division, explains
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