News Release
Newly Establishment of the “Plant Systems Center” to Expand the Systems Business

January 7,2022
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

 Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan; led by President Michihiro Kitazawa) is pleased to announce the establishment of the “Plant Systems Center” at Tokyo Factory (Hino City, Tokyo) to strengthen plant system development and production system in order to expand the systems business.

1. Aim of establishment

Plant Systems Center

 Fuji Electric's medium-term management plan for fiscal year 2023 state that resources set to the power electronics business, and expansion of the system business is essential for the growth of the power electronics business.

 As the digitization and decarbonization trends accelerate, there is increasing capital investment in data centers, semiconductor factories, chemical plants, and other industrial plants. For these industrial plants, Fuji Electric combines equipment and software in an optimal way in order to provide “plant systems” that meet the functional and performance requirements of customers, such as stable supply and optimization of energy as well as automation and energy saving.

 The “Plant Systems Center” has been newly established at Tokyo Factory to strengthen the plant system development and production system. It will contribute to improving the quality of plant systems and reducing lead-times from design to testing by up to 40% to enhance the company’s global competitiveness.

2. Functions of Plant Systems Center

・Advanced testing environment

 The plant system is constructed and provided as a system by optimally combining products such as monitoring control systems, information and control panels as well as power supply panels according to the customer's plants.

 Fuji Electric has recently established a new verification system with enhanced field reproducibility.The system is enable to reproduce and verify customers’ plant systems, and test them in combination by using a network to remotely connect products that are manufactured at multiple Fuji Electric production sites. This will improve the level of system completion at the time of shipment and contribute to quick startup and operation of customer’s new plants.

・Promoting platform development

 Based on the technology and experience that Fuji Electric has cultivated over many years, Fuji Electric has built a standard platforms for plant systems that can be widely applied to various plants and provide them together with equipment and software according to customer’s specification requirements. The platform creation will reduce lead-times and also improve the quality and reliability of systems as well.

・Expansion of communication space with customers

 The Plant Systems Center has as an area where, set up a communication area with customers and introduce the products, software and solutions that make up the plant systems with actual products and large screen monitors.

3. Overview of Plant Systems Center

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The information conveyed in this release is accurate as of the date of this announcement and is subject to change without prior notice.