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Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries is working with Nissan Motor to support
cleaner, safer workplaces by developing cleaner, safer forklifts
for the Japanese market. The first product line developed
through their collaboration went on sale in June under the
name Grendia.
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It's clean. It's fuel-efficient. It's quiet. It's
from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nissan. |
With
a lifting capacity of 1 to 3.5 tons, the Grendia models
are small forklifts equipped with a choice of diesel and
gasoline engines. Their claim to fame is their superior
environmental credentials and their unique safety features.
The Grendia engines clear the most-rigorous
regulations on the horizon in North America, Europe and
Japan for exhaust emissions. Their electronically controlled
engines have three-stage catalytic mufflers, for example,
that achieve big reductions in emissions. Another environmental
improvement is the noise reduction that Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries and Nissan have achieved in these forklifts.
The Grendia models are a lot quieter than their predecessor
models.
Equally important are the Grendia safety features.
Electronic sensors detect when the operator gets off of
the driver's seat, for instance, and automatically freeze
the fork.
Advanced software algorithms, meanwhile, adjust
the adjacent images of the multiprojector displays to merge
them seamlessly. The smoothing technology is applicable
to any number of projectors arranged horizontally. So, it
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A Mitsubishi
Electric subsidiary in the United States has earned prestigious
recognition from General Motors for the fourth consecutive
year. The subsidiary, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America,
received a GM Supplier of the Year Award earlier this year
for its overall business performance in 2002.
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Here are the trophy and certificate that attest
to Mitsubishi Electric Automotive's excellence in
serving the world's largest automaker. |
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Mitsubishi
Electric Automotive America was one of only 70 honorees
among General Motors' tens of thousands of suppliers worldwide.
Executives of the company accepted the award at a ceremony
this spring in Miami.
Quality, service, technology,
price
General Motors uses
ignition coil modules from Mitsubishi Electric Automotive
America's Maysville, Kentucky, plant. It uses the modules
on engines installed in trucks around the world. The award
acknowledges Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America's excellence
in quality, service, technology and price.
"Mitsubishi Electric is representative of the
companies GM expects to grow with as we seek to increase
market share," said Bo Andersson, vice president, GM Worldwide
Purchasing Production Control & Logistics. "The company's
performance and contributions have been critical in helping
GM to become the industry's low-cost producer of high quality
vehicles. Mitsubishi Electric serves as a role model for
other suppliers."
Mickey Kurisaki, president and CEO of Mitsubishi
Electric Automotive America said, "General Motors and Mitsubishi
Electric share a long-standing commitment to high service
and quality. We appreciate this recognition as a 2002 GM
supplier of the year for the fourth year in a row."
The GM Supplier of the Year award began as
a global program in 1992. A global team of executives from
purchasing, engineering, manufacturing and logistics selects
the winners of the award.
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The upper image is a diagnostic rendering of a concrete
sample; blue tracing in the lower image highlights
tiny fissures. |
Nikon
has upgraded its software product for diagnosing concrete
by analyzing digital images. The software, introduced originally
in 1998, has proved highly useful in detecting potential
weakness in concrete structures, such as bridge supports
and tunnels. Nikon's latest version of the software offers
simpler operation and lucid tracing to highlight tiny fissures
not readily apparent to the naked eye.
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An
important collaboration announced recently by Asahi Glass
will strengthen the company's position in a crucial, high-tech
product sector. The company signed an agreement in June
with International Sematech to collaborate in developing
photomasks for extremely ultraviolet photolithography.
The shortest ultraviolet waves are the medium
for an important new generation of technology for making
semiconductor devices. Ever-shorter waves are necessary
to create the ever-finer patterns needed to place ever-larger
amounts of circuitry onto semiconductor devices.
Under the agreement, Asahi Glass will (1) dispatch
researchers to a semiconductor laboratory established by
International Sematech at the State University of New York
at Albany and (2) supply International Sematech with advanced
materials for photolithographic masks. Asahi Glass is paralleling
the collaboration by setting up an in-house team to lead
the development of materials for leading-edge semiconductor
manufacturing.
International Sematech is a consortium of nine
leading manufacturers of semiconductor devices from around
the world. Established in 1988, it is an initiative to maintain
the participants in the vanguard of advances in semiconductor
manufacturing technology. The consortium's overtures to
Asahi Glass are an acknowledgment of that company's leadership
in vital materials.
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