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Welcome to the October 2013 issue of our Food and Beverage industry newsletter
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Mitsubishi Electric has launched its next generation of servo systems, offering safe, user-friendly and energy-efficient motion control.
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Mitsubishi Electric's rapid service support response saves the day
Mitsubishi Electric's service and support commitment proved its worth at a West Midlands dairy. With downtime estimated at some £3000 per hour, service engineers were able to diagnose a blender problem in double quick time and
restore operation to avert a production stoppage.
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Service Support for the Food & Beverage Industry
Downtime can cost a company thousands of pounds, ensuring you have comprehensive service support is vital. At Mitsubishi Electric we aim to deliver industry leading levels of service and support that will provide our customers cost savings, improved machine availability and system uptime. Mitsubishi's expertise minimises implementation risk by using certified expert engineers.
Our support services include - Technical support hotline available 24hr 7 days a week, regional service centres and on-site support services. We offer a tailored range of service contracts for single and multi-site companies, on an annual or project basis that we call our Diamond Services. In addition we have our national network of accredited Service Agents and Service Centres.
For more information on our service and support solutions
call: 01707 288 790, email: automation.support@meuk.mee.com.
or visit: www.automation.mitsubishielectric.co.uk
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Mitsubishi Electric's new FX3GE offers designers even more choice
Mitsubishi Electric's FX3 series is already the world's leading compact PLC range; however the developers felt there was still a requirement for another variant of the highly successful FX3G mid-range version. There are already standard brick and super compact formats; namely FX3G and FX3GC, which offer great flexibility through expansion by using FX3's innovative dual bus architecture. Expansion modules can be added on both sides of the CPU giving over 10,000 permutations of system configuration for users to choose from, meaning that the PLC system is configured precisely to customer's needs rather than constrained by product limitations.
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Mitsubishi Programmable Controller MELSEC-AnS/QnAS (Small Type) Series Notice on Product Discontinuation
The Mitsubishi AnS PLC platform has proved to be the trusted heart of many a control system, not least in the food and beverage sector where many companies from single site to enterprise wide have installed and enjoyed years of reliable product service. Due to component availability and compliance reasons we have decided that it's now time to "call time" on this popular product. Rest assured we will, as always be providing our customers with proven upgrade and retrofit services as we have done with previous product transitions.
If you have installations of the AnS product range and would like more information please contact 01707 288 780.
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Mitsubishi Electric Events
Continuous Improvement In Food & Beverage Production Conference
We conducted our second annual food & beverage conference at Hatfield in July with a theme of continuous improvement. A number of independent keynote speakers presented during the course of the day and also an exhibition was hosted by some of our technology partners.
A prime attraction was the working demonstrations of our robots. Our food safe robot, using 3D vision, decorated a cake with a second robot equipped with an ultrasonic knife, cut all types of food stuffs from cakes to cheese.
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Mitsubishi Electric wins award at the Food processing Awards 2013
Mitsubishi Electric along with our partners Scorpion Vision and Quasar Automation have won the award for the Robotics and Automation Category for our Food safe robotics and 3D vision combine to create the ultimate depositing solution.
Food safe robotics and 3D vision combine to create the ultimate depositing solution
The persistent problem with baked and food goods in general is the non-uniform shape of the finished product. This makes applying any kind of final decoration such as piped icing or other forms of decorative solutions in an accurate way very much a manual task. Mitsubishi Electric and Scorpion vision have teamed together to create a decorative depositing method that takes into account the irregular shapes, but maintains the height depositor above the work piece. With such accuracy the decorative icing is applied in a repeatable way that allows the optimum time for the product to set.
The combined products from Mitsubishi Electric and Scorpion Vision have been brought together with the expertise of robot integrator Quasar Automation who are in the process of doing field trials.
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Appetite for Engineering yet again provided a topical and practical event for end users and suppliers to the industry enabling participants to share ideas and experiences in the ever challenging food and beverage manufacturing sector. The combined range of topics from legislative discussion to manufacturing technology efficiencies and development of skills covered a diverse and valuable variety of discussion and networking.
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Mitsubishi Electric
automation.mitsubishielectric.co.uk
01707 288 760/761
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