ABB has completed an £800,000 main drive control system upgrade for a wind tunnel used for aerodynamic test and simulation to optimise the take-off and landing performance of civil aircraft. The upgrade was funded as part of a project led by QinetiQ and Boeing and supported by the UK Government through the ATI Programme.

The £25m project will help stabilise the power grid as renewable energy replaces larger fossil-fuelled rotating power plants.

ABB today announced that its Turbocharging division (PA), a global leader in heavy duty turbocharging for diesel and gas engines, has unveiled its new brand name “Accelleron”, a compound word of: Access – Accelerate – Excel – on and on, with a bold new color of bright purple representing a powerful, inspirational, and noble brand.

Aggregate producer Tarmac has significantly reduced the likelihood of failures to its motor-driven equipment on two granulation plants at its Port Talbot facility.

The MINI manufacturing plant in Oxford has upgraded existing IE1/IE2 motors to IE5 synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) and drive packages from ABB, increasing plant efficiency, reducing costs and lowering the carbon footprint of its operations.

In this episode, ABB’s technology-focused podcast digs in to one of the world’s most essential industries – but also one that is no stranger to criticism: mining.

ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense, founded in 2018 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, to enhance ABB’s new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology. The technology will offer customers unprecedented levels of flexibility as mobile robots will be able to navigate autonomously in complex, dynamic indoor and outdoor environments close to people.

ABB is proudly celebrating five years of ABB Ability innovations. Officially introduced at ABB’s Capital Markets Day in October 2016, ABB Ability solutions have been the bedrock in establishing ABB’s leading presence in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market.

A more consistent distribution of dye in clothing and furnishing fabrics has resulted from replacing a hydraulic control system with a variable speed drive (VSD) while also helping reduce the process’ annual energy bill by £1,900.

ABB will deliver automation, electrification, quality control systems, motors and drives for Renewcell’s new industrial textile recycling production line in Sundsvall, Sweden. Renewcell is a fast-growing Swedish sustaintech company specializing in textile-to-textile recycling.