Safety specification
Part 3 - Extensions
now released
for comments
until June 22, 2012

Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.

Website: www.mitsubishi-automation.com

	PLC based Automtion Systems
	Robot
	Drives
	Brakers

Profile

A total of more than forty independent companies all over the world belong to the MITSUBISHI Group. Engaged in activities ranging from tanker building to oil production and refining to cameras (Nikon) to financial services and the production of the world-famous Mitsubishi cars.

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC is part of this world-wide family. Its activities are organized in five main divisions:

	Industrial Automation Systems
	Energy and Electric Systems
	Information and Communication Systems
	Electronic Devices
	Home Appliances

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC is a leader in many areas, e.g. as the most important supplier of the home market for programmable logic controllers.

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC gave high priority to its European activities from a very early date. The co-operation now has subsidiaries and branches in all major European countries. Manufacturing in Europe, for Europe . Ratingen is the European Headquarter of the European Business Group Factory Automation, which controls all European activities. To emphasize the importance of thorough and sophisticated H/W and S/W development the Business Unit has set focus with the European Development Center FA-EDC.

Products and Services

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC is one of the very small groups of full-range industrial automation system suppliers, who really can provide comprehensive world-wide support for their products.
The range of industrial products of the Ratingen-based corporation includes PLCs (programmable logic controllers), frequency inverters, robots, control terminals and low-voltage switchgear. In addition to this, the firm also supplies software for these products, conducts training programs all over Germany and develops systems solutions.

As a world-wide operating organization, the MITSUBISHI Corporation offers products according to international standards. This holds also true for the programming software MELSOFT GX IEC Developer, which is in accordance with the IEC-standard 61131-3. The language variety includes the five programming languages Structured Text (ST), Instruction List (IL), Ladder Diagram (LD), Function Block Diagram (FBD) and Sequential Function Chart (SFC). In the same way program types PRG, function and function blocks are supported. Besides the possibility of program structuring, special emphasis was laid on powerful help functions, sophisticated online-tests and diagnose selections. A special feature is, that all existing PLC of Mitsubishi Electric are supported in one software-package.