Mitsubishi Electric, which has been found to have fraudulent inspections at several factories in Japan, announced that it had been fraudulent for about 40 years in a new factory in Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture, in a transformer test for a power plant.
According to Mitsubishi Electric, a new product test found fraud at the Ako Factory of "System Substation System Mfg. Co., Ltd." in Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture.
This factory manufactures transformers for power plants and substations, but it is said that fraud was found in tests according to multiple standards required by customers such as electric power companies.
Specifically, in the test of whether or not it can withstand a high voltage, even though the test was conducted at a voltage lower than the specified voltage, it was stated in the document as if it was carried out as specified. is.
The fraud has been committed for about 40 years from 1982 to last month, and the target is 3384 transformers shipped to domestic and foreign electric power companies and railway companies.
According to the company, there are no reports of transformer malfunctions from the delivery destination due to this problem, but in the future, we will contact each other individually for special inspections.
This fraud was discovered on the 1st of this month in the process of investigating a committee made up of lawyers, etc., so the committee will continue to investigate at all factories in Japan.