Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review Vol. 60 No.1 (March 2023)

FOREWORD

Technical Review Special Edition:
New Products & Technologies
H irok o Sa toSe nior Ge ne ra l Ma nage r,Tec hno lo gy Stra tegy O fficeWelcome to this special edition of the technical review featuring our new products andtechnologies.
"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review" is publishing its 60th anniversary issue thisyear, having made its first appearance in July 1964 just after Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
(MHI) was reborn on June 1, following the consolidation of three companies.
As a successor to the technical journals that had been issued individually by the three companies,"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review" was launched with the aim of "presenting theresults of internal experiments and research, etc. both inside and outside the company, seeking
external understanding of MHI's technologies, providing our engineers with a means of research,and requesting people - whether or not connected with MHI - to give us their comments andguidance."
In those days immediately after the inauguration, Japan was at the height of its high growth
period. Now, 60 years later, we are living in the era represented by the term VUCA, which is anacronym for “Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.” If we want to create new value
in this VUCA era, it is essential to keep trying new approaches without sticking to conventional
methods. By incorporating the latest findings into our technologies developed over a long history,
MHI Group has helped to improve the quality of life of people. In order to contribute to solvingsocial issues, we repeatedly take on the challenge of delivering new products and services and willpresent our achievements in this “Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review.”
At present, an issue to be addressed urgently is climate change. At COP27 held in November
2022, the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP26) was reaffirmed. Other issues include the unpredictabilityof the post-coronavirus future, the instability of world affairs triggered by the geopolitical risks,
and the consequent concern over energy supplies. Our business environment is thus changing
rapidly and discontinuously.
In order to continue contributing under these circumstances toward the development of asustainable society together with customers and local communities inside/outside Japan, we areconducting “MHI FUTURE STREAM activities”. These activities enable us to view the changes inpolitical, economic, social and technological situations surrounding our business broadly andcomprehensively from a medium- to long-term perspective. Based on multiple possible futurescenarios, the business direction is set for giving rise to innovation, in which we define ourresponsibilities as “protection of human lives,” “protection of the environment” and “protection ofeveryday life”. With “decarbonization” and “electrification and intelligence of machine systems” as
the keywords, the strategies for growth are formulated from the business model shift/new1

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2businesses. Moreover, through these activities, we aim to create/deliver new value and expand ourbusiness domains, by efficiently developing innovative key components in which electrificationand machine intelligence are realized and applying them to MHI Group’s growing fields of energy
transition and smartification of social infrastructure.
As some of our recent achievements related to new products and technologies, this edition
contains two articles on energy transition, five on the smartification of social infrastructure, and tenon the fundamental technologies enabling safe and secure products/services.
It would be our pleasure if this edition could help you have a better understanding about ouractivities.
We would deeply appreciate your continued support and guidance, as we are determined tocontinue working toward technological development.