Nagoya Works · Japan
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Americas · EMEA · APAC Service
A century of industrial electronics, expressed in the Nagoya Metalworking Works through fiber laser cutting, wire EDM, sinker EDM and CNC — governed by a single Monozukuri engineering culture.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation was incorporated in January 1921, a spin-off from the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding electrical works. Across a century of scope change — elevators, rolling stock, semiconductors, satellite payloads, factory automation — the seven corporate principles have remained the standing reference point. In Nagoya, they translate concretely: each machine is a commitment to traceable engineering, not an anonymous export unit.
Earned through documented process and honoured commitments — not slogans.
Measured before shipment; traceable after delivery; re-measured during lifecycle service.
R&D anchored in materials, optics, motion control and semiconductor physics — not feature inflation.
Local manufacturing, local service, local academic partnership — in Nagoya, Vernon Hills, Ratingen, Shanghai, Seoul.
Export control, supply-chain integrity, cybersecurity — treated as first-order engineering disciplines.
ISO 14001 operations, ISO 50001 energy management in Nagoya, 2050 carbon-neutral target declared at group level.
Disciplined — aligned to the customer's own growth, not to quarterly unit counts.
When a buyer specifies a fiber laser or a wire EDM machine, they are specifying uptime, accuracy and cost-per-part over a decade — not a headline kW number or a promotional edge sample.
For that reason, every ML, MX, MV and MP unit that leaves Nagoya is accompanied by an engineering folder: optical-path ISO 11146 beam measurement, 72-hour burn-in log, cut-kerf or wire-finish reference sample, pre-shipment inspector sign-off. The same folder is referenced when a regional field engineer returns six years later for a cutting-head replacement.
We do not promise zero downtime. We do promise that when a machine drifts, we have documented baselines to compare against, a regional parts hub to dispatch from and an engineer whose name is already in the folder.
That is the Monozukuri-lineage answer to the twenty-first-century metalworking buyer's question. It is not marketing — it is the standing procedure.
— Nagoya Metalworking Engineering Cell, Mitsubishi Electric Automation
Selected references from the public Mitsubishi Electric corporate record relevant to the metalworking business.
Mitsubishi Electric founded as a spin-off from Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, with 200 employees in Kobe.
Enters the CNC (numerical control) market, establishing the foundation of the factory-automation portfolio.
Wire EDM technology adopted for precision tool & die, the beginning of the Metalworking Machinery Division.
Expansion of regional subsidiaries in the Americas, EMEA and APAC; parts hubs localized.
Fiber laser cutting platform introduced, extending the metalworking portfolio into sheet and plate work.
M800W unified CNC platform, ISO 50001 at Nagoya Works, 2050 carbon-neutral operations target declared.
