This year Mitsubishi Electric celebrates 40 years in Ireland. They have continued to serve the Irish market, innovating and leading the way with their core products in living environmental systems such as air conditioning, heating, and ventilation and with their automation division with robotics, and other factory automation products.
Today Mitsubishi Electric Ireland’s focus is very much on the future as they continue to innovate and deliver next-generation technology to Industry, businesses, and homes across Ireland. These next-generation technologies will feed directly into the governments’ climate action plan over the coming decades, providing sustainable and renewable solutions into the future.
Globally Mitsubishi Electric celebrates 100 years in business. Founded in Japan in 1921, they have been at the forefront of technical ingenuity and product innovation. They have continued to create a long list of firsts and ground-breaking new technologies that have shaped business fields all around the world.
Throughout our history and through a range of technological breakthroughs Mitsubishi Electric have continued to lead the way in its core business in Ireland with ground-breaking developments in their living environmental and automation systems products. Their R&D teams across the globe
continue to strive for breakthroughs and new technologies to enhance our society and to live up to our corporate motto of changes for the better. Mitsubishi Electric Ireland, look forward to the next 40 years in Ireland, bringing these next-generation technologies to the Irish market and driving changes for the better.
Mitsubishi Electric has become an integral part of the fabric of Irish business and Ireland’s manufacturing industry and will continue to support its customers into the future. Their automation equipment and solutions have earned a global reputation for a higher standard of performance, uncompromising reliability, cost-savings and carbon footprint reducing energy efficiency
Since its introduction of its advanced robot range and its innovative PLCs in the early 80s, Mitsubishi Electric has led the way in pioneering advanced solutions for industry.
In early 2000’s Mitsubishi Electric were ahead of the curve when it came to introducing Industry 4.0 solutions with the development of its e-Factory concept and programme, supporting businesses digital transformation. At its core
e-Factory is the interconnectivity of the various automation devices within a manufacturing or process setting, the collection of critical and useful data from those devices and the subsequent analytics of this data to deliver valuable visualisation and guidance to the operators and owners of such plants and sites, thereby maximising their overall plant productivity, reliability, energy efficiency and profitability. Hence e-Factory mirrors Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things.
The automation division has continued to lead the market in technology breakthroughs in the coming years as it introduced industry first features such as including smart conditioning monitoring and corrosive gas alerts in their inverter drive technology and embedding Artificial Intelligence into its hardware and devices.
Mitsubishi Electric filed nearly three thousand patents last year, ranking them first among Japanese firms and third globally in terms of international patent applications filed in 2020, a true testament to their intention to continue to offer cutting edge solutions for automation and energy distribution around it’s Controls and Visualisation, Switchgear, VSDs and Robotics right through to advanced AI and IOT technologies, which will dramatically improve manufacturing, process plants and energy distribution in Ireland for the better for years to come.
About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
About Mitsubishi Electric
With nearly 100 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognised world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used in information processing and communications, space development and satellite communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, as well as in products for the energy sector, transportation and building equipment.
With around 145,817 employees the company recorded consolidated group sales of approximately 40.7 billion dollars* in the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2019.
Our sales offices, research & development centres and manufacturing plants are located in over 30 countries.
Factory Automation Ireland
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. Factory/Industrial Automation- Ireland is located in Dublin, Ireland. It is a part of the European Factory Automation Business Group based in Ratingen, Germany which in turn is part of Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan.
The role of Industrial Automation – Irish Branch is to manage sales, service and support across its network of local distributors throughout Ireland
