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The ‘MHPS-TOMONI’ a revolutionary new digital solutions platform has been unveiled by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), which finds ways to optimise power plant operations, based on a collaborative and 'customer first' approach. MHPS-TOMONI is a comprehensive family of digital solutions tailored to fit each customer's priorities at the power plants they operate.

In order to find assembly efficiencies and reduce costs, the automotive industry and other global manufacturing businesses have long supported the mantra of a reduced supplier base. The real benefits are in a drastically reduced expenditure on development and a faster time-to-market for new products. 

Demonstrating a new compact ‘Direct Teach Pendant’ for small robots and a quality improving pick-to-light system for manual assembly tasks at the Med-Tech Innovation show this year is Mitsubishi Electric. Mitsubishi Electric is on Stand 54a for the Med-Tech Innovation show at the RICOH Arena, Coventry from 26th-27th April 2017.

  Providing an important energy saving technology, Variable Speed Drives (VDSs) certainly offer a crucial element, however Mitsubishi Electric’s Matt Handley questions how many of the installed base of drives are actually set up to run at their maximum efficiency.

An order has been received by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, for natural-gas-fired gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation system equipment. Lamma Power Station Extension - Unit 11 want the GTCC to be built in Hong Kong by The Hongkong Electric Co. Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is prime contractor on the project.

Climate change, rising energy costs, tightening legislation, population growth and increasing usage per head are all challenges that face the water industry. Helping to keep pace with these demands is the use of automated systems in order to make pumps and processes work more efficiently. However, what does the future hold for one of the most pivotal products in the automation mix, the inverter drive?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool has developed the micro V5 micro milling machine, the latest in its micro V series. The micro V5 has a bigger working surface table and wider process stroke than the current micro V1, allowing for high-efficiency machining with micrometre-level (1/1,000 mm) precision for large products or those that require fine milling using small diameter tools, such as molds for car optical components.

A specialised oil and gas division has been established within Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA). By strengthening the combined functions for various products handled by the group, such as compressors and gas turbines, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will provide one stop solutions to the upstream, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) and downstream markets.

APT Automation has recently been welcomed by Mitsubishi Electric as a member of the e-F@ctory Alliance. They are a key provider of automation and production technology solutions. The two businesses collaborate closely to address industry challenges such as improved productivity, increased overall equipment effectiveness and greater production line flexibility.

At the SPS IPC Drives Expo 2016, Mitsubishi Electric showcased a portfolio of integrated automation components and services developed to help customers realise their individual business objectives and make tomorrow’s business a success.

Due for official launch in 2017, Mitsubishi Electric sees the Smart Carriage as a key technology to help address industry challenges such as improved productivity, increased overall equipment effectiveness and greater production line flexibility.

The initial turbine roll testing for the Sanmen Unit 1 and Haiyang Unit 1 nuclear power plants has been completed by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), which is one of the important test items in the secondary system (turbine system) for pressurised water reactors (PWR). Both power plants will now go on to carry out fuel loading and various load testing, with operations scheduled to begin in the second half of 2017.

Replacement work on a pressurised water reactor (PWR) pressuriser nozzle spool piece has been completed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), as part of an order received from Ringhals AB of Sweden. The work at the Unit-3 reactor of the Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant in southern Sweden has improved reliability by replacing the nozzle welds with an alloy of higher corrosion resistance.

This week’s SPS IPC Drives Expo 2016 in Nuremburg has seen Mitsubishi Electric showcase a portfolio of integrated automation components and services developed to help customers realise their individual business objectives.

Environmental equipment engineering joint-venture, Zhejiang Feida MHPS High Efficiency Flue Gas Cleaning System Engineering, (FMH), established by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), has completed retro-fit project and begun operations for a flue gas treatment system for Huadian Zouxian Power, a part of China Huadian Corporation. The construction work was the first such order received by FMH and was completed in a short delivery time of seven months.

The ever-growing requirement of open communications in combination with industrial Ethernet offering speeds high enough for even demanding deterministic motion control applications, it leaves us with the question- is there still a role for dedicated motion networks? Mitsubishi Electric’s Product Manager Barry Weller argues that there is…

An order for an M701F gas turbine for the Sirajganj thermal power plant project under way in Bangladesh has been received by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS). The turbine will be a core component of a dual fuel (natural gas with diesel as backup) Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (GTCC) power station with a contracted output of 413MW. A Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) was also concluded. 

A new high-precision double column die mould machining centre, dubbed the ‘MVR-Fx’, has been developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool, part of the MHI group. It is the latest model in the company's MVR Series of double-column 5-face milling machines, one of its large-size machine tool product lines. 

The construction of a Combined Cycle Cogeneration Plant at the Navoi Thermal Power Station in southern Uzbekistan, has earned Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), together with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), a full turnkey contract by Joint Stock Company Uzbekenergo.

  Selecting the correct controller for your application can be difficult, as there are so many choices and configurations available. Mitsubishi Electric Product Manager, Hugh Tasker here gives his five golden rules for PLC specification.