DYNAMIC HUB DESIGNED TO FOSTER INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE
By providing access to ABB’s cutting-edge testing and simulation facilities and leveraging on well recognized competence and know-how, the Experience Center empowers customers to bring robust, future-ready solutions to market faster and with greater confidence.
YOUR INNOVATION JOURNEY
The three pillars below guide customers along a structured path towards market-ready power solutions.
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Inspire
An immersive experience where innovation meets opportunity. Discover ABB's solutions in action and explore the latest technology trends driving progress in the world's toughest environments. Whether you are navigating unique installation constraints, striving for higher system reliability, or seeking inspiration to address the next wave of technological challenges, this is where your journey begins.
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Design
A collaborative space where you co-design solutions with ABB experts. Hardware and software evolve together through simulation, enabling faster innovation and ensuring readiness and reliability before deployment.
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Certify
More than 50 years of testing expertise in low and medium voltage apparatus. Our accredited test laboratory certifies your solutions against international standards before market launch — so you go to market with confidence.
A GROWING COMMUNITY
The ABB Experience Center is a growing community of engineers, system integrators, panel builders, and technology partners — all working together to shape the future of smart power distribution.
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<p> </p>OPEN LAB: CO-DESIGN & SIMULATION
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Complex project 60%
<p>exceed their initial budget estimates</p>Mega projects 73%
<p>experience schedule delay</p>Extra cost 20%
<p>are due to regulatory compliance and complex design</p>Our ABB Open Lab can help you reduce costs, meet deadlines, and increase reliability
Tailored demonstation, Co-designed advanced logics, Simulation of the customer’s plant, FAT documentation, Validation and testing of the proposal
Logic Selectivity
<p>Better understand logic selectivity, Directional (D) Protection, Ekip Link, IEC 61850. Analyze and simulate the plant. Create a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) document. Verify the designed logics.</p>ATS
<p>Analyze the scenario. Choose the most suitable solution for embedded Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) scenario: Main – Gen, Main – Tie – Main with either open or close transition. Verify the choices done. Simulate the conditions.</p>Communication Protocols
<p>Deep dive on supported communication protocols among: Modbus TCP/RTU, Profinet, Profibus, IEC 61850, Ethernet/IP, Link. Simulate critical conditions. Analyze the exchanged messages.</p>Cutom Logic
<p>Get to know Custom Logics tool on SACE Emax 3. Analyze the specific need. Write the logic, create the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) document. Simulate the plant and test the designed logic.</p>Device Integration
<p>Integrate ABB and third-party devices in plants, no matter if they are real or simulated ones. Check devices’ performances in the system. </p>Electrical Interlock
<p>Understand customer requirement, simulate the plant with all the critical conditions. Create a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) document. Verify the designed logic.</p><p> </p>
TEST LABORATORY: TEST & CERTIFY
Our test offering
- Our test offering
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Short-Circuit
<p>ABB tests low and medium voltage apparatus under high current and voltage conditions to ensure safety and performance. Four synchronous generators supply three short-circuit testing bays with 3,450 MVA total installed power. Maximum performance: 200 kA @ 600 V AC | 100 kA @ 3,000 V DC | 25 kA @ 24 kV.</p>Experimental
<p>The Experimental Test Lab validates low voltage devices under operational and extreme conditions including temperature rise, overload duration, and endurance. Real-world challenges such as vibrations, extreme temperatures, and operational cycles are simulated to validate product reliability.</p>Electronic
<p>ABB's Electronic Test Laboratory simulates real-world electrical conditions and extreme stress using high-accuracy generators, multi-channel calibrators, and climatic chambers. Tests cover electromagnetic interference, harmonics, and environmental factors.</p>Material
<p>The Material Testing Lab validates new plastic and metal materials for reliability, durability, and compliance with sustainability requirements. Tests include fire resistance, corrosion, thermal behavior, and mechanical durability.</p>Environmental Reliability
<p>Specialized test areas evaluate apparatus behaviour under accelerated life conditions including corrosive environments, thermal ageing, thermal shock, vibrations, and combined HALT/HASS cycles.</p><p>The ABB Test Laboratory in Bergamo is recognised by the following certification bodies, enabling global market access for tested and certified products:</p>