Why is 800xA now ABB Ability™ System 800xA?

ABB combines deep domain expertise with network connectivity and the latest digital technologies and innovations to create ABB Ability™ platform - a portfolio of powerful digital solutions and services that solve real business problems and produce tangible business opportunities.

ABB Ability was developed in conjunction with Microsoft, which provides common technologies for enabling device, edge and cloud application delivery. The platform provides solutions in ABB's three primary application areas: utilities, industry, transportation and infrastructure. It also delivers secure, digital solutions on premises with fog computing from devices to the edge, in the cloud that goes up from the edge, and now in a projected "intercloud" strategy.

ABB Ability™ platform enables customers to securely integrate and aggregate their data, combine with wider industry data, apply big data and predictive analytics, and generate insights that can help them drive performance and productivity improvements.

Assessing, automating, optimizing and collaborating – that‘s the value digitally connected products and services can create for our customers. All of it comes together in System 800xA. It can monitor and control over 50 million tags. It provides the functionality of a DCS, Electrical Control System and a Safety system and it empowers plant operators to do a better job by making more accurate and timely decisions. That is why 800xA becomes ABB Ability™ System 800xA.

ABB's extended automation System 800xA has long been able to sense, analyze and allow users to take actions to drive efficiency. At the core, it is a flexible integration platform that allows to move over to new functionalities - smoothly, and connect the unconnected - seamlessly. By becoming ABB Ability System 800xA, it will enable users to do even more.

ABB Ability System 800xA is a secure way to connect our customers to the power of the Industrial Internet of Things and, through our services and expertise, to go further by turning data insights into the direct action that "closes the loop" and generates customer value in the physical world.

 ABB Ability™ System 800xA solutions offer the right tools and support to drive gains in performance, productivity, efficiency and safety throughout the operations lifecycle of your business.

ABB has world’s largest installed base of connected industrial devices and we are world leaders in securing and using data. Customers who are already using the portfolio of digital solutions that are now part of ABB Ability include some of the world’s leading utilities, manufacturers and service providers, among them Shell Oil, CenterPoint Energy, Con Edison, BASF, Royal Caribbean, Cargill and many others.