Mitsubishi electric's data fraud has spread to at least nine nuclear power plants in the past 40 years. The investigation commissioned by mitsubishi electric found that the company's transformer data fraud can be traced back to at least 1982, with a time span of 40 years. Mitsubishi electric's data has been falsified for 40 years, affecting at least nine nuclear power plants.
Mitsubishi electric's data has been tampered with for 40 years, affecting at least nine nuclear power plants (1). Recently, mitsubishi electric Company, a century-old company, admitted that its transformers had tampered with the inspection data, according to CCTV Finance. On the 6th of this month, two quality management certificates of the company's factory were suspended by international certification bodies.
According to public information, mitsubishi electric was founded in 192 1 and is one of the core enterprises of Mitsubishi Group. Its products include display products for individual consumers, mobile phones, kitchen appliances, automobile appliances, household appliances and air-conditioning appliances. It is understood that in the Japanese market, mitsubishi electric is the largest manufacturer of train air-conditioning products, which is not only the "standard" of ordinary trains, but also selected as the supporting supplier of Shinkansen trains that have been vigorously developed in recent years.
In February of 200211,mitsubishi electric celebrated the 0/00th anniversary of/kloc-0 and officially became a century-old enterprise. However, this century-old enterprise has continuously exposed many fraud and fraud scandals since last year.
Two international certification certificates of the factory involved were suspended.
According to CCTV news, mitsubishi electric admitted on April 2 1 local time that the company's factory in Chishui City, Hyogo Prefecture participated in the transformer experiment for 40 years.
Affected by this, the international certification body suspended the ISO900 1 international quality management system certification and international railway industry standard certification on May 6. It is worth noting that at present, six factories in mitsubishi electric have had their international certification cancelled or suspended due to quality inspection fraud and other issues.
The investigation commissioned by mitsubishi electric found that the company's transformer data fraud can be traced back to at least 1982, with a time span of 40 years. Nearly 3,400 transformers involved in this project are sold to Japan and abroad, including Japan Railway Corporation and nuclear power plants in operation.
According to Japanese media investigation, at least nine Japanese nuclear power plants are involved. According to CCTV's financial report, on May 7th, the reporter also tried to contact mitsubishi electric to find out whether defective products flowed into the China market, but because it was the weekend, he didn't get the other party's reply.
Last year, a data fraud scandal was exposed.
President mitsubishi electric resigned at that time.
According to CCTV News 2021July 3, mitsubishi electric President Takeshi Sugiyama announced his resignation the day before yesterday because the company was exposed by the media to falsify inspection data. At that time, mitsubishi electric was first exposed by the media that its Nagasaki factory failed to conduct product inspection on train air conditioners as required by users and forged inspection data, which may have lasted for at least 30 years. Later, some media disclosed that mitsubishi electric had tampered with the test data of the air compressor.
On July 8th, 20021year, according to CCTV news and Japanese news agency * *, mitsubishi electric Company of Japan exported train air conditioners involving forged inspection data to about 15 countries such as the United States, Britain and Germany. According to the report, this batch of equipment totals about 1.58 million units. Mitsubishi did not disclose all the countries involved on the grounds of contract terms. A number of media have previously disclosed that a factory in Nagasaki, mitsubishi electric, did not fully inspect the products according to the user's requirements, and forged the inspection data for a long time. This practice can be traced back to around 1985 at the earliest.
The products involved include train air conditioners and air compressors, totaling about 84,000 units, of which 20% are exported overseas. Some subways in new york, Britain, London and Germany use related equipment. The report also pointed out that Mitsubishi's overseas sales are mainly in North America, Europe and Asia, and its business involves railway-related fields, factory automation equipment and auto parts.
In addition, in May, 20021,mitsubishi electric provided 2 1.5 million pieces of electrical equipment components that did not meet the safety certification standards to many customers at home and abroad. In 2020, mitsubishi electric was exposed to export unqualified car radios to the EU; From June, 2065438 to February, 2020, mitsubishi electric issued a statement that the company exported a large number of non-compliant car audio parts to European car companies by forging relevant documents from June, 2000 to June, 2020, about 335,000 pieces.
These unqualified products are used in cars sold by many Japanese car companies in Europe.
The "golden signboard" collapsed;
In recent years, many Japanese companies have exposed fraud scandals.
Not only in mitsubishi electric, but also in many Japanese companies.
On June 25th, 20021year, some media reported that the German quality inspection department suspected that since 20 12, Mitsubishi Motors had violated regulations in the discharge of harmful substances from its own products and used external devices to reduce the discharge of harmful substances. Although Mitsubishi Motors denied that there was fraud in the quality inspection process, it admitted that its product exhaust emissions were indeed flawed and paid 2,500 yuan to the German quality inspection department.
In February of 20021year, Japanese auto parts supplier Shuguang Brake Industry Co., Ltd. apologized to the public that the data of more than 1 10000 products of brakes and their parts produced by its four local factories in Japan had been tampered with or fabricated. Among them, about 5000 pieces did not reach the standard value agreed with automobile manufacturers. According to the time announced by Dawning, counterfeiting has existed for 20 years, and the affected companies include Toyota, Nissan and other 10 Japanese car companies.
Japanese mitsubishi electric falsified data for 40 years, affecting at least nine nuclear power plants. Recently, mitsubishi electric Company, a century-old Japanese company, admitted that the transformer it produced had the problem of forging inspection data. On the 6th of this month, two quality management certificates of the company's factory were suspended by international certification bodies.
In the central business district near Tokyo Station, the building behind the reporter is the headquarters of mitsubishi electric Company. Recently, the company admitted that the transformer products produced by a factory in Hyogo Prefecture had data fraud in the pre-factory inspection.
Affected by this, international certification bodies suspended ISO900 1 international quality management system certification and international railway industry standard certification on the 6th. It is worth noting that six factories in mitsubishi electric have been cancelled or suspended from relevant international certification due to quality inspection fraud and other issues.
The investigation commissioned by mitsubishi electric found that the company's transformer data fraud can be traced back to at least 1982, with a time span of 40 years. Nearly 3,400 transformers involved in this project are sold to Japan and abroad, including Japan Railway Corporation and nuclear power plants in operation.
According to Japanese media investigation, at least nine Japanese nuclear power plants are involved. On the 7th, the reporter also tried to contact mitsubishi electric to find out whether the defective products flowed into the China market, but because it was the weekend, he didn't get the other party's reply.
In fact, this is not the first time that there has been a fraud scandal in mitsubishi electric. In June last year, the company was exposed to the problem of train air conditioning quality inspection fraud, and admitted that this behavior was organized fraud. Since 30 years ago, a tacit understanding has been formed among internal employees, and this scandal also led to the resignation of General Manager mitsubishi electric. In recent years, many well-known Japanese companies, including Hino Auto and Toray, have been exposed to fraud scandals one after another, which has also cast a shadow over this gold-lettered signboard called Quality Assurance made in Japan.
Japanese mitsubishi electric falsified data for 40 years, affecting at least nine nuclear power plants. Mitsubishi electric Company, a century-old Japanese company, recently admitted that the transformer produced by it has the problem of false inspection data, and the international certification body suspended the international certification certificate of the factory involved on May 6.
This time, two certificates, ISO900 1 International Quality Management System Certification and International Railway Industry Standard Certification, were suspended.
Mitsubishi electric claimed that there were 3,384 transformers involved in counterfeiting, of which 1589 were sent to Japan and 1795 were exported overseas. These large transformers are produced in the company's factory in Chishui City, Hyogo Prefecture, and are used in nuclear power plants, thermal power plants and substations that power trains.
According to Japanese media reports, the incident involved at least nine Japanese nuclear power plants.
Forty years of fraud
Mitsubishi electric was founded in 192 1, and February 20021is the anniversary of 100. However, the signboard of the centennial enterprise was smashed shortly after its centennial birthday.
In June, 20021year, Japanese media exposed that mitsubishi electric inspection data was forged, and in the quality inspection of train air conditioners, the product inspection report was automatically filled out by using the collected source data.
Then there is a problem with the data of the air compressor used for train braking. It is said that mitsubishi electric used computer programs to generate forged railway equipment data dating back to1980s, instead of conducting new tests on each component after design changes as required.
In 2020, mitsubishi electric was also punished for transporting car radios that did not meet local standards to the European Union. However, at that time, the enterprise's practice was to roll with the punches, and only fined the department executives 5% of their monthly salary.
When the 202 1 scandal broke out again, the chairman and president of mitsubishi electric could only take responsibility for it by resigning. At the same time, the company also set up an investigation Committee and introduced external lawyers.
And this outside lawyer gave mitsubishi electric another blow in April this year.
On April 2 1 day, mitsubishi electric admitted that about 40% of the 8,363 transformers shipped from April 1982 to March 2022 were fraudulently tested or improperly designed. It is these transformers that triggered the suspension of this international certificate.
In some cases, employees falsified data in the quality inspection report, saying that the internal temperature of the equipment remained within the specified range during the thermal test, but actually exceeded the upper limit. Or, in the safety test, check the voltage range that the equipment can withstand under acceptable test conditions that do not meet international standards or academic regulations.
In a word, mitsubishi electric is well-known at home and abroad for committing crimes against the wind.
corporate culture
Cheating before being found and continuing to cheat after being found are different mentality, but it is obvious that employees in mitsubishi electric are too good at it and don't care about the investigation at all.
After the exposure of data fraud in June last year, until March this year, mitsubishi electric's factory in Chishui City, Hyogo Prefecture was able to send motors with data fraud all the time, which had to be admired.
This is related to the corporate culture in mitsubishi electric.
When recruiting engineers in mitsubishi electric, departments are usually arranged in advance according to their situation, resulting in less mobility in other departments after employees enter the company. This is also described as an "isolated" corporate culture in mitsubishi electric.
In the long run, employees will only be responsible for the department and put the interests of the department first.
At the same time, Mitsubishi pursues a comprehensive high salary plan for executives, which also contributes to the "isolated" atmosphere to some extent. According to the salary disclosure in FY 2020, the company's president Sugiyama received 200 million yen, and other senior executives received 654.38 billion yen.
According to a former employee of mitsubishi electric, the system helps to prevent competition between departments, but it also prevents management from expressing opinions in areas beyond their responsibilities.
In this way, data fraud has changed from a small scope at the beginning to a "shortcut" that the company secretly understands. As long as it involves interests, regardless of etiquette and righteousness, it has become the default behavior rule of this century-old enterprise.
However, this is not the first Japanese company to be exposed to fraud. In 20021year, Mitsubishi Motors was also questioned about the defects in the exhaust emission equipment and paid a huge fine to the German authorities. In the same year, Japanese auto parts supplier Shuguang Brake Industry Co., Ltd. also admitted to tampering with and fabricating the data of more than 1 10000 products.
A century-old enterprise is hard-won, and its reputation is damaged in a flash.