Fuji Electric has expanded its automation business in various fields, such as for power and industrial applications, and has compiled a record of many successes. Based on our technical strategy for the Japanese market and on global market and technology trends, Fuji Electric is advancing technical development focused on energy, the environment and safety with the goal of realizing a sustainable society that is a safe and secure. With smarter functions, improved safety and greening seen as the critical factors for success, Fuji Electric has subdivided its automation business activities into energy, industry and socio-automation sectors, and is advancing efforts to realize safety engineering, platform development that includes embedded systems, and“3R”（reduce, reuse, recycle）engineering.

In order to realize stable supply of energy toward low carbon society,“ Smart Energy”aiming more efficient, quality and reliable energy usage is eagerly expected. Fuji Electric has challenged these energy issues for many years, and has made positive contributions through technology and product development. With regards to supply and demand control of distributed energy, Fuji Electric has involved in the research and development project of regional supply and demand control that incorporates photovoltaic, wind power and biomass generation. For distributed power supply systems, electric power stabilizers have been developed and used in practical applications. For power system operation, we have realized system stabilization with power flow control, and for energy plants, we have realized optimal operation and visualization. Consequently, in energy field, we have contributed to realization of higher quality energy.

Fuji Electric aims to supply proprietary safety solutions not only that provides the traditionally requested safety technology such as higher reliability and higher quality but also that meet international safety standards. The safety solutions encompass the three fields of energy automation, industry automation and socio-automation, and customer manufacturing facilities and systems are constructed and maintained by them so as to operate safely throughout their lifecycle. The safety solutions consist of consulting, safety control solutions, safety components, after-sales service and the like, and support the realization of a safety industry for“ safe and secure manufacturing.”

Aiming to realize a“green society”, which can be defined as“a society that leads a comfortable lifestyle in harmony with the environment”, Fuji Electric uses sensors, wireless networks, wide area distributed systems and the like as core technology to provide environmental and energy-savings solutions as well as safety and security solutions. For the environment and energy-savings, Fuji Electric's solutions enable the amounts of energy usage and waste to be visualized, and provide energy-saving solutions such as merchandise of “GreenUSE”. For safety and security, Fuji Electric's solutions provide food safety proposals such as cultivation history management for agricultural products, production history management for food products, location management for emergency medical treatment, and so on, aiming to realize a green society.

In order to improve the productivity and quality of control systems, Fuji Electric is constructing control system platforms（PFs） consisting of an execution system and a support system. For the execution system, three types of PFs（for large systems, medium and small systems, and wide area monitoring systems）are provided to match the size of the system. For the support system, a 3R engineering PF that promotes comprehensive reduction, reuse and recycling is provided. By providing these control system PFs, Fuji Electric is responding to customer requests for improved productivity and quality in all energy, industrial and social application fields.

Efforts to establish safety standards and address safety in Japan have become more active as a result of the international standardization trends toward functional safety and machinery safety. Fuji Electric is developing a safety control solution that combines global standards with basic technologies, acquired from our experience with system controls, to realize high reliability and a high availability rate. With riskreducing measures based on risk assessment, Fuji Electric can provide a safety related system having a safety integrity level of 3（SIL 3）. For steel coil transportation systems, a wide range of choices are available for the circuits and components according the required safety level. For power systems, highly reliable numerical protection relays help to maintain a stable supply of electric power.

Requests for quality and safety in automation systems have recently intensified more than ever. Using advanced modeling and control technologies, these are actively worked to overcome the challenges in Fuji Electric. A multivariate statistical process control and quality simulation package which is able to diagnose anomalies in a manufacturing process and estimate product quality, and a proprietary disturbance observer are being developed and installed in general-purpose PLCs used for model-based predictive control. These modeling technologies and products will contribute to the realization of more advanced manufacturing and process automation.

Fuji Electric is working to develop methods for utilizing and monitoring radioactivity. In the monitoring field, Fuji Electric is developing and providing personal dose monitoring systems, survey meters and the like for use at newly constructed nuclear power plants and at an increasing number of worksites that use radiation. As personal dose monitoring systems, Fuji Electric provides a dose monitoring system capable of wireless real-time monitoring of doses detected with a semiconductor-based personal dosimeter, and a body surface monitor for use when entering or exiting a radiation controlled area. Additionally, using a survey meter to measure the environmental radiation surrounding a radiation handling facility, and then sharing that data with local governments and disclosing it to the public, Fuji Electric also provides systems and survey meters for realizing safety and security for the local population.

Flue gas regulations have been enacted into law in order to prevent air pollution in countries such as Japan, Europe and China. With a conventional-type continuous flue gas measuring system consisting of a sampling-type gas analyzer that samples flue gas and performs pre-processing, the realization of long-term stable measurements has encountered such problems as requiring the removal of blockage or contamination in the sampling pipe, periodic calibration of the analyzer, increased power consumption of heating tube, and so on. Fuji Electric's simultaneous seven-component measuring gas analyzer uses cross stack laser method for HCl measurement and is capable of overcoming the above problems. Fuji Electric is also advancing research and development so that the cross stack laser method can be used for measuring other components.

Fuji Electric provides the solution for management problems on planning and control of automation systems with On-site visualization of field information. Intelligent field devices with Key function such as On-site visualization are consisted of technologies of every kind. These technologies are network, measurement and control, electronic and embedded software, safety and down-sizing and power-saving. Fuji Electric realizes Automation systems with intelligent field devices in the fields of smart energy, safety industries and green-socio.

Fuji Electric provides automation systems that utilize various wireless network technologies for such applications as monitoring, measurement and automatic meter reading. A prototype product that uses the ISA 100.11a wireless standard is also being fabricated for process control applications. An access method using a mesh network, with which Fuji Electric has a history of successful applications, is proposed for the IEEE 802.15 international standard for short-range wireless communication. Tools for facilitating the installation and adjustment of mesh networks are prepared as part of a shared platform. Low energy consumption mesh networks and multiple tags reading technology are examples of Fuji Electric's distinctive technology, and are being used in such practical applications as the wireless remote reading of a wattmeter and reading tags for a motor vibration diagnosis.

For over 20 years, Fuji Electric has advanced the commercialization of sensors and other products that utilize MEMS（Micro Electro Mechanical Systems）technology to realize superior systems. Products utilizing MEMS technology include pressure sensors, flow sensors and the like, and plasma etching and anodic bonding technology are used to perform three-dimensional processing. Recent development examples include a thin-film gas sensor that realizes ultra-low power consumption and a vibration sensor that is being considered for diagnostic applications to equipment and buildings. Additionally, Fuji Electric is participating in the planning of the Japanese national project known as BEANS（Bio Electromechanical Autonomous Nano Systems）, and is collaborating with some universities to research sensors such as surfacemodified antibodies, and energy harvesting technology.