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ABB technologies that changed the world
Part five: extended automation

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:26:03 GMT

2009-11-16 - ABB pioneered one of the world’s first distributed control systems in the early 1980s and remains to this day the global market leader and the company with the largest installed base of process automation systems worldwide.

Vadodara campus in harmony with nature

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:48:17 GMT

2009-11-16 - ABB’s largest manufacturing facility in India is a sprawling 85-acre campus on the outskirts of the city of Vadodara. Despite the size and importance of this industrial center, three quarters of the site is parkland, home to a flourishing population of plants and animals.

ABB technology helps KPTCL monitor and control power

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:48:11 GMT

2009-11-16 - As one of the fastest growing states in India, with the bustling city of Bangalore at its heart, Karnataka's appetite for electricity is voracious. Ensuring reliable supplies of quality electricity for customers in the face of spiraling demand is a major challenge, for even the best-run utilities.

ABB helps solve power challenges in downtown Bangalore

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:48:01 GMT

2009-11-16 - Rapid economic growth is fueling increased demand for electricity and straining Bangalore’s power infrastructure. ABB has been actively helping the State power utility, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL), strengthen its transmission and distribution infrastructure for the past decade.

Helping an ancient Turkish city use water more efficiently

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:24:47 GMT

2009-11-05 - ABB WaterMaster flowmeters are enabling the ancient city of Konya in central Turkey to accurately measure the flow and consumption of water, which is pumped from hundreds of wells in and around the city.

Connecting renewable energy to the grid

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:56:54 GMT

2009-10-22 - Big cities need large amounts of electricity to function. Often, this is transported from generating sites located in remote areas hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.

Saving energy with ABB drives

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:35:56 GMT

2009-10-22 - Processes driven by electric motors consume vast quantities of electricity and even small improvements can lead to dramatic savings. ABB’s installed base of low-voltage drives, which control the power consumed by electric motors, saves an equivalent of 140 million tons of CO₂ each year.

Drinking water from the sea

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:24:09 GMT

2009-10-22 - It covers two-thirds of the earth's surface and makes up 75 percent of the human body. Water is the cradle of life, but some parts of our planet have almost none and many regions are critically short of drinking water. ABB water solutions are helping to turn that around.

Breaking records in paper mill productivity

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:12:58 GMT

2009-10-20 - A complete ABB power distribution and electrification solution is enabling a mega-size paper machine to break world speed and productivity records while minimizing power consumption in this, one of the world’s three most energy-intensive industries.

Solar homes ready to compete in Washington

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:31:22 GMT

2009-10-14 - After four weeks at sea, a solar house built by students of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany with help from ABB has been reassembled in the US capital and is ready to compete against other renewable energy entries in the Solar Decathlon. A winner will be announced on October 17.