Recently, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan, a century old enterprise, admitted that the inspection data of its transformers were falsified. On the 6th of this month, the two quality management certificates of the company's involved factories were suspended by the international certification authority. In the central business district near Tokyo station, the building behind the reporter is the headquarters of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Recently, the company admitted that the transformer products produced by a factory in Hyogo county had false data in the inspection before leaving the factory.
Affected by this, the international certification body suspended the ISO9001 international quality management system certification of the factory involved and the international railway industry standard certification on the 6th. It is worth noting that six factories of Mitsubishi Electric have been cancelled or suspended relevant international certification certificates due to quality inspection fraud and other problems.
The investigation commissioned by Mitsubishi Electric found that the company's transformer data fraud can be traced back to at least 1982, with a span of 40 years. Nearly 3400 transformers involved were sold to Japan and abroad, including Japanese railway companies and nuclear power plants in operation.
According to Japanese media survey, at least nine Japanese nuclear power plants are involved. Yesterday, the reporter also tried to contact Mitsubishi Electric to find out if there were any problem products flowing into the Chinese market, but due to the weekend, he didn't get a reply from the other party.
In fact, this is not the first time that Mitsubishi Electric has had a fraud scandal. In June last year, the company was exposed to the fraud of train air conditioning quality inspection, and admitted that this behavior was an organized fraud. It has formed a tacit understanding among internal employees since 30 years ago. The scandal also led to the resignation of the general manager of Mitsubishi Electric. In recent years, a number of well-known Japanese enterprises, including Hino Motors and Toray, have been exposed to fraud scandals one after another, which has also cast a shadow on the gold lettered signboard of quality assurance made in Japan.