In this episode we visit ABB’s automation demo room in Västerås, Sweden, to discover more about control system technology that enables 24/7 process operations for thousands of industrial plants around the world, and helps to deliver greater productivity, quality, and reliability.
Join us behind the scenes to find out more about the engineering and innovation behind the ABB Ability™ System 800xA® distributed control system.
How we build redundancy in distributed control systems
Transforming industrial plant operations: ABB Ability™ System 800xA® in action
Modern industrial plants are a marvel of complexity, efficiency, and optimization – delivering quality, throughput, and reliability in the harshest of conditions, across sites that can be many square kilometers in size. This reliable high performance is only possible thanks to distributed control systems (DCS): the brains and nervous systems of industrial operations.
ABB Ability™ System 800xA® DCS has set the standard for industrial control and automation for over two decades – and continues to deliver innovative new capabilities, alongside rock solid reliability and efficiency. But what does this look like in practice?
Find out in this episode of This is Engineering from ABB’s automation demo room in Västerås, Sweden. We discover how System 800xA® integrates data from many thousands of devices in real time, enhances reliability with multi-layered redundant connectivity, and leverages digital twin functionality to transform plant operations.
Meet the engineers
Åsa Larsson
Project Manager, Process Control Platform
Christian Dahl
Technical Coordinator for System 800xA®
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