Mitsubishi Electric to Open Local Engineering Center in China

Strengthens factory automation application development in China

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it will open the “Collaborative Engineering Center (China)” within its local subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Ltd., and will start developing factory automation (FA) applications at the center from April 1. The new engineering center will strengthen the company’s capabilities to quickly and flexibly respond to the diversifying needs of local customers through application development leading to improved customer satisfaction, and will help expand its FA systems business in China.

In recent years, there has been a growing need for a variety of specialist applications for FA products in a wide range of industries, including automotive, logistics, food and beverage as well as digital-related fields like semiconductors, electronic components, and data centers, and more recently decarbonization-related fields such as lithium-ion batteries. In order to be more responsive to the diversifying needs in the Chinese market, Mitsubishi Electric will leverage the new engineering center to develop FA applications that meet local customer needs and also provide customized FA solutions that span custom functions, motion programs and custom screens for products ranging from programmable controllers and servos to human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and inverters.

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