ABB ROBOTICS OPENS US PACKAGING AND LOGISTICS HEADQUARTERS

ABB officially opened its new Robotics Packaging and Logistics Headquarters, located north of Atlanta in Alpharetta, Georgia. The new facility will serve as ABB‘s dedicated centre for robotic automation solutions in the logistics and packaging industries.

With some of the world’s largest packaging and logistics companies based in and around Atlanta, the facility will serve as a hub for collaboration between ABB and its customers and integration partners. Together, this ecosystem will design and develop the next generation of AI-enabled robots to transform the packaging and logistics industry and help US companies meet new demand, build resilience and remain competitive. Training will also be available for ABB employees, customers, and integrators to help them develop skills needed to program, operate and maintain robots in logistics and packaging applications.

As part of a wider $22 million investment by ABB Robotics in the U.S., that will create more than 70 jobs, this is the latest specialist robotics centre, dedicated to developing new solutions, products and technologies. It will operate alongside the company’s Lifesciences and Healthcare Lab in Houston, Texas, ABB Robotics’ manufacturing facility in Auburns Hills Michigan and the ABB Robotics Research and Development lab in San Jose, California. The investment furthers ABB’s commitment to addressing the increasing demand for automation in the U.S. as more companies seek to re-shore their manufacturing and distribution operations. North America is already the second-largest market for new robot installations with 41,000 robots installed across the U.S. in 2022.

With 40 percent of US Transportation and Logistics companies lacking staff to carry out low-skilled manual tasks, solutions like ABB’s family of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Visual SLAM technology or AI-enabled Robotic Item Picker can help companies overcome labour and skills shortages. Capable of making intelligent decisions in dynamic environments, these solutions can take on dull, dirty and sometimes dangerous tasks to free people to do more rewarding work.

ABB’s new Packaging & Logistics Headquarters in Atlanta follows the company’s investment in the expansion of its Auburn Hills manufacturing facility in Michigan, strengthening ABB’s presence in one of its largest and most important markets.