At present, Chinese manufacturing industry is faced with a variety of human cost, tax cost, material cost and other multiple pressure and challenge, how to improve production efficiency, save cost and energy consumption, transformation of intelligent manufacturing, to create efficient, visual smart factory, manufacturing enterprises need to think about the problem.

To help manufacturing enterprises accelerate the transformation of intelligent manufacturing, on September 20th, Mitsubishi Electric officially launched the MELIPC intelligent industrial control product system for the world during the Expo.

Mr. Noriyuki Shimizu, Director of FA Overseas Business Division of Mitsubishi Electric Co., LTD., Mr. Hiroshi Ichioka, Deputy Director of FA System Division 1 of Mitsubishi Electric Nagoya Manufacturing House, and Mr. Zhang Wei, Vice President of Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Co., LTD., attended the press conference.

As a strong support for e-F@croty intelligent manufacturing solutions, this grand launch of MELIPC will be a major breakthrough in the integration of data acquisition/transmission, edge computing, real-time control and other multiple functions. For manufacturing enterprises in the transition to save costs, improve competitiveness.

The reporter learned that e-F@croty intelligent manufacturing solution is a concept that Mitsubishi Electric has always been proud of and continues to pay attention to, which can help manufacturing enterprises realize visual, analytical and improved manufacturing ecology of factory production. From diagnosis and consultation, overall planning, production line design, equipment import to operation and maintenance, covering the whole cycle of intelligent manufacturing comprehensive services.

At the launch event, Mr. Ichioka introduced MELIPC’s hardware performance and software advantages in detail.

He said that the era of intelligent manufacturing has put forward higher requirements for manufacturing production, the rapid adoption of IoT has led to explosive growth of data, production site and cloud response delays become bottlenecks. Based on nearly a hundred years of manufacturing experience, Mitsubishi Electric has optimized the industrial chain by taking the production site as the center, introduced edge computing, IoT, AI and other leading technologies and a variety of statistical analysis methods, and developed MELIPC, a key central equipment system in e-F@croty intelligent manufacturing solutions.

MELIPC intelligent industrial control product system includes MI50000 analysis category, MI2000 monitoring category, MI1000 gateway category.

The MI5000 is Mitsubishi Electric’s flagship real-time analysis and diagnosis product, equipped with high-performance processor Intel® Core™ i7, Windows® and VxWorks® operating systems can run simultaneously, effectively reducing system construction costs and saving device space. MI5000 can communicate the control information and production information of CC-Link IE Field network connection equipment as soon as 1ms, realizing high-precision device control and high-speed collection of production information.

MI2000 is suitable for monitoring the mid-range products in the production site. PCI and PCI Express expansion ports can be used for system expansion. CC-Link IE field network board can be used for high-speed collection of production information, and I/O board can be used for device control. In addition, a variety of general purpose PCI boards can be used to achieve system expansion.

The MI1000 is a small, low-cost device that is suitable for IT system gateway use. It is suitable for high degree of freedom Settings in various situations, and it only needs to add a gateway for the upper system to realize economic IoT mapping in the production site.

The three categories form a full range of data acquisition, processing and transmission solutions between the FA production site and IT system. Edge computing is used to realize the self-distributed IoT layout, and the production site data is processed once, reducing the traffic and improving the real-time and security.