Kawasaki Heavy Industries Involved in Data Tampering Scandal in Japan
TapTechNews August 23rd news, due to the improper behavior of the Japanese manufacturing giant Kawasaki Heavy Industries in tampering with the test data of marine engines, on August 22nd, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism conducted an on-site inspection of Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Kobe plant.
On August 21st, Kawasaki Heavy Industries released a press release, apologizing for the improper behavior of tampering with the test data of marine engines.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries admitted that the test results of its 673 two-stroke diesel engines and 1 four-stroke engine had changed. Specifically, the investigation confirmed that the shop test fuel consumption rate of the company's marine diesel engines has been changed through the operation of the test equipment to keep the value within the allowable range of the customer's specifications and reduce the data variance. This may affect the nitrogen oxide emissions calculation of these engines. The company wrote in a statement.
TapTechNews note: Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. is abbreviated as Kawasaki Heavy Industries, which is a Japanese enterprise with heavy industry as its main business, and its business scope covers aviation, space, railway vehicles, motorcycles, ships, machinery and various other equipment.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries started from the Meiji Restoration. In 1878, Kawasaki Masayoshi established the Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard with the help of the Ministry of Finance, and in 1896 it was renamed as Kawasaki Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., which was the predecessor of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. By the Taisho era during the First World War, there was already a booming shipbuilding industry. Despite the rapid economic growth in Japan after World War II, Kawasaki Heavy Industries is still one of the time-honored ones among Japanese military enterprises.
In April this year, the Japanese manufacturing giant IHI Corp. also admitted forging fuel economy data of marine and railway engines for at least 20 years, including the test data of 4,361 engines being tampered with, and the vast majority (4,215) were marine engines provided to domestic and foreign customers.