ABB launches industry-leading digital solutions offering, ABB Ability™
ABB推出業(yè)界領(lǐng)先的數(shù)字化解決方案ABB Ability™

March 14, 2017 -- ABB today commercially launched ABB Ability, its industry-leading portfolio of digital solutions, at ABB Customer World in Houston.

2017年3月14日——ABB今天在休斯敦舉行的“ABB客戶世界”上推出了業(yè)界領(lǐng)先的數(shù)字化解決方案組合，ABB Ability。

With the commercial launch of more than 180 solutions and services today, ABB is unlocking value for customers in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. By combining ABB’s deep domain expertise with network connectivity and the latest digital technologies and innovations, ABB Ability creates powerful solutions and services that solve real business problems and produce tangible business opportunities.

隨著今天180多個解決方案和服務(wù)的商業(yè)推出，ABB為第四次工業(yè)革命中的客戶釋放更多價(jià)值。通過將ABB深厚的行業(yè)專長與網(wǎng)絡(luò)連接性以及最新的數(shù)字化技術(shù)和創(chuàng)新相結(jié)合，ABB Ability創(chuàng)造了強(qiáng)大的解決方案和服務(wù)，解決實(shí)際的業(yè)務(wù)問題，并帶來明確的商業(yè)機(jī)會。

ABB Ability helps customers in utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure develop new processes and advance existing ones by providing insights and optimizing planning and controls for real-time operations. The results can then be fed into control systems to improve key metrics such as factory uptime, speed and yield.

ABB Ability幫助電力、工業(yè)、交通和基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的客戶開發(fā)新流程，并通過提供洞察力和優(yōu)化實(shí)時操作的規(guī)劃和控制來提升現(xiàn)有流程，再將結(jié)果反饋到控制系統(tǒng)中，以改善工廠正常運(yùn)行時間、速度和產(chǎn)量等關(guān)鍵指標(biāo)。

The offering builds on ABB’s pioneering technology and more than four decades of industrial digital leadership. It will enhance customers’ ability to innovate and compete in the emerging digital-industrial marketplace.

該方案組合基于ABB的開創(chuàng)性技術(shù)和超過四十年的工業(yè)數(shù)字化領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力。它將提高客戶在新興數(shù)字工業(yè)市場上的創(chuàng)新能力和競爭力。

“As a pioneering technology leader in digital solutions, with an installed base of more than 70 million connected devices and 70,000 control systems, ABB is uniquely positioned to support its customers’ digital transformation,” said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. “With ABB Ability, we are combining ABB’s entire portfolio of digital solutions and services. We are creating additional customer value by bringing together ABB’s domain expertise, advanced connectivity and the latest digital technologies. With this, our customers can achieve unprecedented improvements in operational performance and productivity.”

ABB首席執(zhí)行官史畢福表示：“作為數(shù)字化解決方案的先驅(qū)技術(shù)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，ABB擁有超過7000萬個連接設(shè)備和7萬個控制系統(tǒng)的安裝量，在支持客戶的數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型中ABB有著獨(dú)一無二的優(yōu)勢。借助ABB Ability，我們將ABB的全部數(shù)字化解決方案和服務(wù)組合在一起。我們通過匯集ABB的行業(yè)專長、先進(jìn)的連接性和最新的數(shù)字化技術(shù)，為客戶創(chuàng)造更多的價(jià)值。這樣，我們的客戶可以在運(yùn)營績效和生產(chǎn)力方面實(shí)現(xiàn)前所未有的提高。”

Digital offerings provided by ABB Ability include performance management solutions for asset-intensive industries; control systems for process industries; remote monitoring services for robots, motors and machinery; and control solutions for buildings, electric-vehicle charging networks and offshore platforms. Some of the more specialized offerings address energy management for data centers and navigation optimization for maritime shipping fleets, among many others.

ABB Ability數(shù)字化方案包括資產(chǎn)密集型行業(yè)的績效管理解決方案，過程工業(yè)的控制系統(tǒng)，機(jī)器人、電機(jī)和機(jī)械的遠(yuǎn)程監(jiān)控服務(wù)，建筑、電動汽車充電網(wǎng)絡(luò)和海上平臺的控制解決方案，以及一些更專業(yè)的涉及數(shù)據(jù)中心能源管理和海運(yùn)船隊(duì)導(dǎo)航優(yōu)化等產(chǎn)品。

Customers who are already using the portfolio of digital solutions that are now part of ABB Ability include some of the world’s leading utilities, manufacturers and service providers, among them Shell Oil, CenterPoint Energy, Con Edison, BASF, Royal Caribbean, Cargill, Volvo, BMW and many others.

應(yīng)用了現(xiàn)屬于ABB Ability數(shù)字化解決方案組合的客戶包括一些世界領(lǐng)先的公用事業(yè)公司、制造商和服務(wù)提供商，其中有殼牌石油、森帕能源、聯(lián)合愛迪生、巴斯夫、皇家加勒比、嘉吉、沃爾沃、寶馬等。

ABB Ability’s next-generation digital solutions and services are being developed and built on Microsoft’s leading Azure cloud platform, based on a strategic partnership with the software company.

根據(jù)ABB與微軟的戰(zhàn)略合作伙伴關(guān)系，ABB Ability的下一代數(shù)字化解決方案和服務(wù)將在后者領(lǐng)先的Azure云平臺上面開發(fā)和構(gòu)建。

“Building our solutions on the Azure platform means we can take advantage of all of its capabilities and add value with our domain-specific offering,” said ABB Chief Digital Officer Guido Jouret. “In effect, we are turning ABB’s decades of industrial domain expertise into software offerings that our customers can access through the world’s largest and most advanced digital platform. From being a hidden digital champion, we are becoming the partner of choice for customers embarking on a digital transformation. They can now know more, do more, do better, together. We can help them assess, automate, optimize and collaborate.”

ABB首席數(shù)字官Guido Jouret表示：“在Azure平臺上構(gòu)建我們的解決方案意味著我們可以利用其所有功能，并通過特定行業(yè)方案實(shí)現(xiàn)增值。實(shí)際上，我們正在將ABB幾十年的工業(yè)行業(yè)專長轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)檐浖a(chǎn)品，客戶可以通過世界上最大和最先進(jìn)的數(shù)字平臺訪問這些軟件產(chǎn)品。我們正從一個隱藏的數(shù)字化冠軍，成為客戶選擇的數(shù)字化變革合作伙伴。他們現(xiàn)在可以一起知道更多，做得更多，做得更好。我們則可以幫助他們評估、自動化、優(yōu)化和協(xié)作。”

Among the new ABB Ability innovations showcased in Houston are:
在休斯頓展出的ABB Ability創(chuàng)新方案包括：

• ABB Ability System 800xA – One of the solutions provided by ABB Ability builds on the market-leading automation platform System 800xA. Select I/O, a new addition to System 800xA, is a redundant, Ethernet-based, single-channel I/O system. It supports ABB’s next-generation project execution model, Intelligent Projects, which offers a range of efficiency improvements for automation projects. With Select I/O, customers can undertake major projects on a faster schedule with fewer cost overruns. It uses standardized cabinets that allow installers to digitally marshal signals instead of using labor-intensive marshalling panels. Loop checks can be done before the rest of the system is delivered, minimizing the impact of late changes and allowing for project tasks to be executed in parallel.

ABB Ability系統(tǒng)800xA——建立于市場領(lǐng)先的自動化平臺系統(tǒng)800xA之上的ABB Ability方案之一。系統(tǒng)800xA 新增的Select I/O是一個基于以太網(wǎng)的冗余單通道I/O系統(tǒng)。它支持ABB的下一代項(xiàng)目執(zhí)行模型Intelligent Projects，為自動化項(xiàng)目提供一系列的效率改進(jìn)。通過Select I/O，客戶可以更快地承接主要項(xiàng)目，同時減少成本超支。它使用標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化機(jī)柜，允許安裝人員以數(shù)字方式編組信號，而不是使用勞動密集型編組面板。循環(huán)檢查可以在系統(tǒng)的其余部分交付之前完成，使后期更改的影響最小化，并允許同時執(zhí)行項(xiàng)目任務(wù)。  

• ABB Ability Asset Health Center – Among the first ABB Ability solutions to be launched on Azure is ABB’s next-generation asset performance management solution, Asset Health Center 3.0. Available since January 2017, it uses predictive and prescriptive analytics and customized models to identify and prioritize emerging maintenance needs based on probability of failure and asset criticality.

ABB Ability資產(chǎn)健康中心——首個在Azure上推出的ABB Ability解決方案是ABB的下一代資產(chǎn)績效管理解決方案，資產(chǎn)健康中心3.0。它在2017年1月推出，使用預(yù)測性和規(guī)范性分析和定制模型，基于故障概率和資產(chǎn)重要性識別新出現(xiàn)的維護(hù)需求并確定其優(yōu)先級。

• ABB Ability Collaborative Operations – This powerful solution, now being brought to scale across industries, helps customers collaborate more effectively. It allows experts to work together across organization boundaries, using the same data and analytics platforms. It focuses on such outcomes as improving productivity, reducing equipment failures, lowering the cost of asset maintenance and transforming overall business performance. This is done while maximizing security and protecting data, people and assets at every level of integration. The solution has been delivering sustainable, long-term results to early adopters.

ABB Ability協(xié)作運(yùn)營——這一強(qiáng)大的解決方案現(xiàn)在可以跨行業(yè)應(yīng)用，幫助客戶更有效地合作。它允許專家跨組織邊界，使用相同的數(shù)據(jù)和分析平臺一起工作。它專注于提高生產(chǎn)力，減少設(shè)備故障，降低資產(chǎn)維護(hù)成本和改變整體業(yè)務(wù)績效。與此同時，在每一集成層級，最大限度地提高安全性和保護(hù)數(shù)據(jù)、人員和資產(chǎn)。該解決方案為早期采用者提供了可持續(xù)的長期結(jié)果。

• ABB Ability Digital Substation – ABB’s digital substation provides customers in the utility sector with unmatched control and efficiency. The digital substation incorporates fiber optic current sensors and disconnecting circuit breakers to reduce maintenance requirements and the need for miles of conventional cabling. ABB Ability takes these advances several steps further by combining the latest electrical gear with digital sensors and cloud computing. The result is that grid operators can make decisions based on comprehensive, up-to-the-moment information, while predictive algorithms can improve maintenance practices and asset management.

ABB Ability數(shù)字化變電站——ABB的數(shù)字化變電站為電力行業(yè)客戶提供無與倫比的控制和效率。數(shù)字化變電站包括光纖電流傳感器和斷路器，以減少維護(hù)需求和數(shù)英里長的傳統(tǒng)電纜。通過將最新的電子齒輪與數(shù)字傳感器和云計(jì)算相結(jié)合，ABB Ability將這些成果進(jìn)一步推進(jìn)了幾步，使得電網(wǎng)運(yùn)營商可以根據(jù)全面的、最新的信息做出決策，而預(yù)測算法可以改進(jìn)維護(hù)實(shí)踐和資產(chǎn)管理。

• ABB Ability Smart Sensor – This smart sensor solution, unveiled last year, connects low-voltage electric motors to the Industrial Internet, allowing them to be monitored continuously. The solution, which can be easily affixed to a motor, transmits data on vibration, temperature, loads and power consumption to the cloud. Alerts are generated as soon as any of the parameters deviates from the norm, allowing the operator to take preventive action before the motor malfunctions. Early indications are that the smart sensor solution leads to a reduction in downtime of motors by up to 70 percent and extends their lifespan by up to 30 percent. Acting on the data to optimize the motor’s performance reduces energy consumption by as much as 10 percent.

ABB Ability智能傳感器——去年推出的智能傳感器解決方案將低壓電動機(jī)連接到工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，使其能夠連續(xù)監(jiān)控。該解決方案可以很容易地固定到電機(jī)，將振動、溫度、負(fù)載和功耗數(shù)據(jù)傳輸?shù)皆啤Ｒ坏┤魏螀?shù)偏離標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，就會產(chǎn)生警報(bào)，允許操作員在電機(jī)故障前采取預(yù)防措施。前期指標(biāo)表明，智能傳感器方案可將電機(jī)停機(jī)時間減少高達(dá)70％，并將其使用壽命延長30％。實(shí)踐數(shù)據(jù)顯示，通過優(yōu)化電機(jī)性能，可以降低能耗多達(dá)10％。

The list of innovative and versatile solutions associated with ABB Ability continues, with such offerings as ABB Ability Asset Insight, ABB Ability Ellipse Enterprise Asset Management software, and the ABB Ability Data Center Automation infrastructure management software. With solutions like these and many more, ABB Ability will serve customers in utilities, industry, and transport and infrastructure. It will leverage the power of the digital revolution by enabling reduced maintenance costs, longer asset life, more efficient operations, reduced environmental impacts and improved worker safety.

與ABB Ability相關(guān)的創(chuàng)新和多功能解決方案還有更多，包括ABB Ability資產(chǎn)洞察，ABB Ability Ellipse企業(yè)資產(chǎn)管理軟件，以及ABB Ability數(shù)據(jù)中心自動化基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施管理軟件。通過這些解決方案以及其他更多，ABB Ability將為電力、工業(yè)、交通和基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施領(lǐng)域的客戶提供服務(wù)。它將利用數(shù)字化革命的力量，降低維護(hù)成本，延長資產(chǎn)壽命，提高運(yùn)營效率，減少環(huán)境影響和改善工人安全。