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New Dimensions -
Automation Power from Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric's new product philosophy
The new product philosophy New Dimensions - Automation Power from Mitsubishi Electric stands for innovative products and optimised, application-focused operating concepts that give users more functionality and performance across the board. The Ratingen-based automation specialists' new slogan expresses their commitment to outstanding technological expertise and reliability. Mitsubishi Electric always works to give its customers more than standard, off-the-shelf components. The engineering brief is as simple as it is ambitious: to develop an ideal combination of hardware and software that provides users with optimum support in all phases of their work.
Mitsubishi Electric is one of the world's biggest electronics companies with a huge pool of expertise in many high-tech fields. This makes it possible to utilise synergies in which basic research and application development form ideal complements to one another. The spectrum extends all the way from communications systems and high-speed data networks to satellite technology. The company is also one of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, playing a key role in the development of advanced new technologies. It is no coincidence that the resulting chips are found not only in Mitsubishi components but also in the products of many other manufacturers. This concentrated expertise is the solid foundation that Mitsubishi Electric builds on, ensuring that all its products deliver exceptional performance and reliability, with minimal failure rates. At the same time, the uncompromising commitment to reducing component number and increasing the integration of the electronics results in unusually compact products. High technology in a compact package is one of the characteristic features of all products from Mitsubishi Electric.
These hardware development efforts are accompanied by an equally uncompromising commitment to software optimisation. The main focus here is on the analysis of pro cesses and product requirements in real, everyday industrial applications.
Close collaboration with customers' own automation experts helps to perfect the user-optimised operating concept, ensuring that all functions of Mitsubishi's innovative products can be used quickly, easily and efficiently.
All these hardware, software and customer usability efforts pay off in the form of automation products with a significant efficiency edge. The products described below are just four characteristic examples of the resulting "automation power" that Mitsubishi Electric delivers with this approach.
System Q
The System Q line of controllers is a new addition to the MELSEC PLC family introduced in the middle of last year. It features integrated motion controller functions, IT technology, full online change capability and the ability to install up to four individual CPUs, combined with even smaller product size. The PLC and motion controller can be installed on a single module rack, and together they can control up to 128 axes simultaneously. At the HMI, together with its many other new products, Mitsubishi Electric is going to present the first Q System with a facility for an integrated Slot PC.
FX1S/ FX1N
The successor of the popular FX0S/ FX0N combines even more compact dimensions with significantly more power and versatility. Features include comprehensive network capabilities and compatibility, greater memory capacities, faster cycle periods and optimised counter inputs and output signals. This makes FX1S/ FX1N an ideal choice for applications in mechanical engineering, the motor industry, wood working, the packaging industry and environmental systems.
The FX1S/ FX1N is Mitsubishi Electric's impressive response to growing demands on compact PLC systems. Users want more system and application performance, more network support and more value for money. And that is exactly what Mitsubishi delivers. In keeping with the New Dimensions motto, the FX1S/ FX1N is significantly more compact and powerful, and support for optional expansion cards makes it even more versatile than its predecessors.
RH-5AH
A reach of 550 mm and a maximum handling payload of 5 kg qualify the RH-5AH for a very broad range of applications. It is also no slouch when it comes to speed (up to 5,360 mm/s) and repeatability (±0.02 mm). And all this performance is delivered in a remarkably slim design; the drive unit is the world's smallest SCARA controller, packing the entire electronics into an enclosure the size of a shoebox.
MR-J2-Super
Rapidly-expanding markets like the IT and home entertainment industries are constantly pushing the miniaturisation and quality envelopes. To keep up, both manufacturing machines and the components used in them always have to be a step ahead of the market. Mitsubishi Electric's new MR-J2-Super servo series fulfils and exceeds these requirements, delivering outstanding synchronisation performance, extreme precision and super-short positioning times.
The state-of-the-art servo technology used in these systems satisfy the need for ever shorter cycle periods combined with more exacting production tolerances. Comprehensive automatic configuration systems enable precise calibration of servo drives like the new MR-J2-Super without the need for expensive instrumentation. The system can even register and automatically compensate for mechanical changes.
New Dimensions
These new products literally deliver new dimensions of technical performance and functionality for discriminating users who demand the utmost from their automation systems.
Mitsubishi Electric
For over 75 years Mitsubishi Electric has been one of the world's biggest high-tech companies in industries as diverse as semiconductor development, construction, communications technology and even satellite systems. The success of the company's operations in 36 countries across the globe is also reflected in revenues, which totalled over US$35 billion in the 2000 business year.
Mitsubishi Electric's Industrial Automation division develops, manufactures and distributes a wide range of automation components and systems, including programmable logic controllers, industrial robots and drive solutions. All these products are characterised by outstanding quality, reliability and user-friendliness. The European headquarters is in the German city of Ratingen near Düsseldorf, with a large central warehouse, a detailed logistics system that ensures fast, efficient delivery of the products and a customer hotline service.
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