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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
三菱電機株式会社 |
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| Type |
Corporation TYO: 6503 |
| Founded |
Tokyo, Japan (1921) |
| Headquarters |
 Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people |
Setsuhiro Shimomura, President & CEO |
| Industry |
Electronics |
| Products |
Energy and electric systems, Electronic devices, Industrial automation systems, Home appliances, Information and communication systems |
| Revenue |
 $32.6 billion USD or 3,855 billion Yen (Consolidated, as of June 28, 2007)[1] |
| Employees |
102,835 (Consolidated, as of Dec 2007)[2] |
| Website |
Mitsubishi Electric Global |
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 6503) is a Japanese company based in the Tokyo Building in Tokyo, manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels[3]. The Corporation was established on 15 January 1921.
It is one of the Mitsubishi Group core companies.
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- Communication Systems
- Communication Systems
- Information Security
- Space Systems
- Industrial Automation
- Automation Systems
- Industrial Automation Machinery
- Semiconductors & Devices
- Contact Image Sensors
- Electronic Devices
- TFT-LCDs
- Transportation
- Automotive Equipment
- Intelligent Transport Systems
- Transportation Systems
- Visual Information Systems
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- The company makes Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter.
- Televisions
- The company's most notable product in the United States is the large screen CRT (rear projection) television. Competitors in this market are Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung (Akai), Daewoo, LG (Zenith), and Apex Digital.
- The company manufactured direct-view CRT televisions until 2001. The last notable size in this field was a 40" (diagonal) tube size.
- As of 2005, the company is focusing on DLP and LCD video projection systems.
- The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-storey Landmark Tower, Yokohama, from 1993 until 2005, when it was overtaken by Toshiba's elevator in the new Taipei 101 building in Taiwan.
- Automotive parts (Original Equipment Mfg)
- Factory Automation
- Elevators and escalators [6]
- Air conditioners
- Eco Cute heat pump water heaters
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems
- Mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo
- Photovoltaic panels
- SCOPO. The Corporation claims (as cited in "References") to have achieved the world's first transmission at 10 Gbit/s between relay equipment boards set at a distance of 500 mm apart.
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- Achievements
- Book Site of former employee who wrote a book about working as a foreigner in the company.
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