At the 2020 ABB Industrial Automation Forum, which opened online today, ABB announced that its latest industrial Internet of Things platform, ABB AbilityTM, was officially launched on Huawei Cloud to serve the Chinese market. The platform provides a complete device side, edge side and cloud architecture, supports massive industrial equipment management, data collection and analysis and rich industrial applications, and meets the highest level of network security standards. At the same time, ABB will introduce more industrial solutions based on the latest platform technology to the market, provide Chinese users with more intelligent, one-stop digital services, and jointly seize the new round of information technology and new opportunities for industrial change.

“The industrial Internet is an important part of the ‘new infrastructure’ and a new driving force for the transformation of the industrial economy to digital, networked and intelligent.” Dr. Gu Chunyuan, Chairman of ABB (China) Co., Ltd. said, “ABB’s digital thinking is very clear, emphasizing the use of technical advantages and industry expertise in the electrical and automation fields to provide customers with solutions to the industry’s pain points, improve the level of equipment automation and intelligence, support the sinking and embedding of new generation software and Internet technology into the industrial system, achieve real integration, promote the in-depth expansion of the industry, and more vigorously support the process of China’s industrial digitization.”

Jiang Haibo, head of ABB China Industrial Automation Business Unit, said: “ABB has been deeply involved in the industrial industry for many years, and has considerable installed capacity of products and systems from the equipment layer, control layer, executive layer to the enterprise layer. In the process of digitalization, with the general trend of integration of IT, ET and OT, and with our years of engineering experience and industry accumulation, ABB will join hands with partners to help industrial enterprises accelerate the pace of development from automation to autonomy.”

Li Qingyuan, chief digital officer of ABB China, said: “From the infrastructure level, ABB’s entire range of equipment has achieved interoperability based on the latest IoT technology. The digital twin, edge side and cloud based IoT and data analysis platforms have been successfully deployed, and have provided more choices and flexibility to meet the needs of the Chinese market. More importantly, ABB continues to introduce targeted innovative solutions to meet the new needs of various industries in the process of digital transformation. ”

ABB actively laid out digitalization. In 2017, it launched ABB Ability in the Chinese market for the first time ™， Including more than 200 industrial digital solutions; In 2019, ABB and Huawei started strategic cooperation to further expand industrial digital solutions in the Chinese market; Now, the localized version of the ABB AbilityTM digital platform based on Huawei Cloud has been officially released, and the enterprise level IoT platform has been successfully built, providing users with leading industrial solutions by using rich Internet of Things protocols, digital twin based equipment lifecycle management, platform level multi tenant support and data isolation, big data storage and computing, machine learning framework and other core technologies.

ABB Ability ™ Customized digital solutions have helped many enterprises in energy, petrochemical, metallurgy, machinery, automobile, ship, data center, infrastructure and other fields to achieve interconnection with the industrial Internet of Things, fully tap the digital potential, improve efficiency, reduce costs, improve security and core competitiveness. Recent application cases:

ABB has provided Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone with digital power distribution solutions. Relying on the ABB AbilityTM EDCS intelligent power distribution control system, it has built a unified digital power distribution monitoring and management platform to help the park improve the continuity and stability of power use, promote its scientific power use management, and accelerate its march into the era of smart parks.

ABB Ability ™ Motor intelligent sensors and gateways are widely used in Shanghai Baosteel Group. By monitoring and sending early warning information about motor status and performance, they help customers achieve intelligent maintenance, effectively avoid unscheduled downtime and huge costs, and support users to improve intelligent management and build intelligent factories.

ABB has provided a full set of mechanical and electrical control system solutions for the two roll cold rolling stainless strip reversible skin pass mill of Shanxi TISCO Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., including low-voltage drive ACS880, which relies on ABB Ability ™ The primary automation control system, secondary manufacturing execution system and related services of System 800xA help users achieve accurate control and efficient operation, and help create high-end stainless steel products.

ABB Ability is installed on the waterborne finish line of commercial vehicles of Dongfeng Liuzhou Automobile Co., Ltd ™ Interconnected atomizer and equipped with ABB Ability of Baikale ™ Box, and ABB Ability ™ The spraying software realizes real-time intelligent diagnosis and precise painting control, optimizes the spraying quality, improves the real-time painting rate by 10%, and makes the fully automatic auto spraying production line capable of self intelligent analysis become a reality.

ABB provided Jiangsu Taikoo Coca Cola with bottling beverage stacking robot workstation and ABB Ability ™ The interconnection service has greatly improved the stability, security and flexibility of the palletizing link of the production line, reduced manual intervention, and increased the efficiency by 3 to 5 percentage points. It ensures the running time of the robot, avoids downtime losses, and helps customers achieve the highest equipment availability and optimal equipment life cycle costs.

ABB has provided an upgraded ABB AbilityTM Tekomar XPERT marine engine performance digital solution for 12 bulk carriers of China Merchants Minghua Shipping Co., Ltd. under China Merchants Group, helping them improve the performance of marine engines, reduce operating costs and improve management efficiency. Users operate according to the analysis and specific suggestions provided, and each ship can usually save 0.5 to 3 tons of fuel every day.

During this year’s epidemic, ABB AbilityTM digital technology has also played a huge role in supporting equipment remote operation and maintenance, cloud services, remote collaboration, improving operational efficiency and quality, and improving customer experience. For example, ABB AbilityTM Motion Control Digital Center provides a famous domestic petrochemical enterprise with remote guidance for on-site inspection through ABB AbilityTM transmission remote service, quickly identifies fault problems, and timely replaces spare parts, which helps customers avoid huge losses caused by long-term fault downtime, and fully demonstrates the advantages and potential of remote interconnection services.