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ABB ABILITY™ FOR MANUFACTURING
Optimizing mass customization takes ability. ABB Ability™ digital solutions and services.
ABB Ability™ solutions for manufacturing enable comprehensive horizontal and vertical integration across the enterprise and to its key suppliers and partners, covering every activity from dispatching to delivery, along with providing real-time visibility into manufacturing processes allowing for iterative improvements. Digitalization is the foundational enabler and the true hallmark of the factory of the future – flexibility, it can and will quite literally run the factory of the future. Connected robots can become up to 200 % more productive and use 30 % less energy when enabled by ABB Ability™ for Industry.
ABB is a pioneering technology leader with a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years. ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization by automating industries from natural resources to finished products.
ABB Ability™ brings together for the first time all of our digital products and services, each built from our unique combination of sector knowledge, technology leadership and digital expertise, to create real business value for our customers. ABB Ability™ offerings are digitally enabled industry solutions designed to work across industries and are fine-tuned based on years of sector and customer insights.
Can ABB Ability™ boost Manufacturing productivity? Absolutely!
Digitalization technologies continue to gain broader adoption across our industrial landscape and this is now the biggest potential value-add since the invention of the conveyor belt itself. Manufacturers are under pressure to drive down costs while differentiating their products, however there are few efficiency options left from the traditional way of doing things and modern consumers expect highly personalized merchandise, without delays in the production-line. Balancing speed and quality presents a difficult challenge for manufacturers, especially in mission-critical and highly regulated industries To manufacturing more efficient we find the balance that can mean achieving a competitive advantage from existing assets.
Today’ s flexible and robust manufacturing can potentially deliver hundreds of different variations of products conforming to highly restrictive government regulations and customer expectations. Better integration between business-level resource planning and local process controls can yield improvements in compliance and on-time delivery.
For the process, hybrid and discrete industries, digitalization is taking center stage with automated equipment managing plant operations. Consider the ABB Ability™ System 800xA Distributed Control System( DCS). Multiple 800xA DCS units deployed throughout a plant can be integrated and monitored from a central location, providing secure access to all operational information from any office desktop.
For service, ABB’ s remote monitoring services and applications give insight into the status of a system, analyze trends, trigger alarms and recommend preventive maintenance – so customers can“ do more”. ABB understands the need to model and adapt solutions to customers’ specific business needs achieving real competitive advantages – now and in the future.
An example of what this technology can do when it works together is the case study of ABB’ s Heidelberg factory where ABB deployed its drives, motors, robots and intelligent manufacturing system revolutionizing production processes and increasing efficiency three-fold. Increased flexibility allows the assembly line to handle 8000 product variants. With ABB Ability™ this is a factory of today!
ABB Ability™ solutions for manufacturing enable overall process improvements, better compliance, more efficient storage and utilization of raw materials. Thus, they ensure higher Return on Investments from existing systems.
To find out more about ABB Ability™ go to: https:// new. abb. com / abb-ability
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