ABB in cement industry

ABB’s new permanent magnet (PM) motors for medium-power gearless conveyor drives (GCDs) reduce production costs and increase competitiveness. A PM motor, combined with gearless technology, also fulfills eco-design requirements, saves energy, reduces failure rates and lowers maintenance overheads.

ABB’s Advanced Process Control and Analytics Suite comprises tools, online and offline, to deploy advanced controllers and analytic models; this gives process and power industries monitoring, predictive analytics and closed-loop control abilities at the device, edge and cloud and ensures real-time operation efficiency gains.

A leading U.S. cement company’s immediate response to general maintenance is to perform it in-house rather than turn to a service provider. However, the North American supplier of aggregates and building materials did not yet know the analyzers in its Texas, USA plant were becoming obsolete.