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Smart Manufacturing Operations Management

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Smart Manufacturing Operations Management
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Discrete manufacturing operations management

ABB Ability™ Smart Manufacturing Operations Management suite provides the backbone for optimized operations. Enable visibility, orchestrate and synchronize the complete end-to-end process, from incoming material & components to finished products.

Discrete manufactures today operate in a complex and highly competitive environment. In addition to fierce cost pressure, high demands are on quality, traceability and time to market. As a leading automation and robotics / cobotics supplier with extensive and deep knowledge of manufacturing processes and data security, ABB is uniquely positioned to provide  tailored digital and fully automated solutions for all types of factories: from small lot manufacturing to mass-customized and high-volume production.

Our proven and reliable software platform with  rich out-of-the-box functionalities, easy to configure modules in multiple languages, SDK for customized applications, global expert support and adaptive implementation approach give solution architects, operators, supervisors and plant managers the flexibility to drive innovation, improve business agility and  capture productivity, quality and compliance benefits early.

ABB forms strong consulting partnerships, helping rethink the processes, develop a roadmap towards a smart manufacturing vision, harmonize and consolidate existing solutions and best practices from across all company facilities.

Benefits:

  • Visualization of pending tasks, work instructions, materials and equipment and quality test specifications in the context, reduces errors,  rework and waste and improves quality and throughput.
  • Real time transparency of production status and performance provides the insights to continuously improve and optimize operations.
  • Recording of all relevant data in context, including transactional operation/order/product/ material, quality data,  ensures complete forward and backward traceability.

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ABB Ability™ Smart Manufacturing - Operations Management software

Production Intelligence

Data collection and data storage

Extensive, secure, high speed recording of history data from all systems, with built-in powerful calculations engine
Personalized reporting dashboard

Support day-to-day and strategic business decisions with real-time operational intelligence, business KPIs, transactional and historical data analysis via a single interface
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Out-of-the-box software based on the standardized method of measuring and improving productivity
Energy Monitor

Flexible Energy Management and Production Monitoring System according to DIN EN ISO 50001

Manufacturing Execution System

Enterprise connectivity

Seamless integration of ERP, SCM, MES, databases, applications, production equipment, control systems from different vendors - SAP, IBM Maximo, IBM WebSphere MQ, Databases, Web services, XML
Production order management

Plan, respond and change on demand: order and production buffers, workflow management, automatic mapping of routing from ERP
Quality management

Quality data collection, test certificates, in-process quality control, automatic tolerance validation, non-conformities reporting, checklists
Downtime management

Real-time downtime info to make immediate improvements, long-term data collection for investigation of production process problems
Electronic Work Instructions (EWI)

Bring consistency to manual operations with Standard Operations Procedures (SOP)
Material management

Tracking, tracing individual parts, lots, batches, assemblies. Material identification, real-time reporting of material consumed and produced, material compatibility and availability
Warehouse management

Control storage locations & levels, movement within warehouses, compatibility, integrate with external warehouses / inventory management systems
Labor management

Accurate management and tracking of staff attended hours (Join/Leave) and activities on a given product against defined production time
Planning / scheduling

Helps to adapt to rapidly changing situations in manufacturing and to identifying high-quality production schedules - both manually and / or automatically.
Equipment maintenance management

Plan, create and execute equipment maintenance with support of instructions, checklists and task tracking
AGV / Robot integration

Enabling highly agile production process which adjusts itself autonomously, depending on what needs to be produced at a given moment

References

Semiconductors production in Lenzburg wins digitalization award at «Factory of the Year»
The factory of the future is smart, connected and already here at ABB Heidelberg
In the smart factory at ABB Beijing processes take place in real time, production is flexible, and the entire value chain is automated
Virtual tour inside ABB's factory of the future in Shanghai: robots making robots
ABB opens smart factory for electrical safety, energy efficiency products in Bangalore
ABB Vietnam writes the future of smart manufacturing
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Industrial digitalization and smart electrification of state-of-the-art battery factory in Sweden
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Industries we serve

Discrete manufacturing

Food and Beverage

Chemicals

Pharmaceutical and life sciences

Oil, gas and petrochemicals

Cement manufacturing

Metals

Mining and minerals processing

Pulp and paper

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