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ABB Drives

ABB Drives is a global technology leader serving industries, infrastructure and machine builders with world-class drives, drive systems and packages. We help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers to improve energy efficiency, asset reliability, productivity, safety and performance.

Industries and applications

Industries

Applications

Machine building

→ Compressors and blowers

→ Cooling tower

→ Cranes and hoists

→ Potentially explosive atmospheres

→ Solar pumps

→ Stacker cranes

→ Winches

→ Dependable performance for each machine building phase

Portfolio

Low voltage AC drives

Medium voltage AC drives

DC drives and controllers

Connectivity

Overview

Boost the productivity of your processes, improve energy efficiency and cut maintenance costs.

General purpose

All the essential features built-in, simplifying drive selection, installation and use.

Micro

Precise speed control and simple integration.

Machinery

Premium motor control with hardware flexibility, programmability and scalability for an optimal solution.

Industrial

Our benchmark of performance, expertise and quality, serving you locally on a global scale.

Industry specific

Dedicated solutions for industries and applications such as HVACR, elevators, electric heavy working machines, and water & wastewater.

Servo products

Flexible and dynamic servo drive and motor package for the diverse industrial applications.

Legacy drives

Lifecycle management model aimed to provide proactive service offerings for maximizing availability and performance.

Overview

Leading international supplier of medium voltage AC drives in the range of 250 kW to more than 100 MW.

ACS580MV

200 – 6300 kW, 3.3 to 11 kV

ACS2000

250 - 3680 kW, 4.0 - 6.9 kV

ACS5000

2 - 36 MW, 6.0 - 13.8 kV

ACS6080

3 - 36 MW, up to 3.3 kV

MEGADRIVE-LCI

2 - 150 MW, 2.1 – 2 x 25 kV

ACS1000

315 kW - 5 MW, 2.3 - 4.16 kV

Overview

The flexibility to design your machine or industrial process to take advantage of this technology.

DCS550

DCS550 DC drives integrate easily into your machine designs, from new machines to retrofits.

DCS880-S

The drive integrates certified Safe Torque Off (STO) safety functionality as standard and is also enabled for compatibility with the Industrial Internet of Things.

DCS800-S

From rolling metal, turning cement kilns, paper making, wire drawing, or running cable cars, our industrial DC drives give you the day-to-day reliability you need.

DCT880

The DCT880 offers thyristor power controllers for precise control of resistive or inductive heaters and infrared heaters.

DCS880-A

The DCS880-A cabinet built industrial DC converters gives you the customization flexibility to engineer the exact DC solution for your processes.

DC Power supply for Hydrogen production

With the DC power supplies ABB offers its customers thyristor-based rectifiers.

Overview

Multiple options for extending the basic functionality and data transfer capabilities of low voltage AC drives.

Fieldbus connectivity

ABB drives flexibly connect to different automation networks via embedded fieldbus interfaces and optional fieldbus adapter modules.

User interface options

Different user interface options offer you choices for optimal set up and maintenance of our drives.

Safety functions module, FSO-12/-21

Extended safety functions with the plug-in module for the ACS880 drives.

RMDE reliability monitoring device

RMDE reliability monitoring device collects drive data so that it can be stored remotely and utilized for service, maintenance and troubleshooting.

PROFIsafe safety function module, FSPS-21

Extended safety functions with the plug-in PROFIsafe fieldbus module for ACS380, ACS580 and ACS880 drives.

Software tools

Mobile tools

Motion Services & Training

PLC Automation

Discover our range of PC tools for LV, MV drives, and LV motors

Read more about our PC tools for selecting, commissioning, monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting drives.

ABB Ability™ Virtual Commissioning for drives

Virtual engineering and commissioning to develop and simulate entire industrial processing lines and machines without actually running hardware.

Automation Builder

ABB Automation Builder is the integrated software suite for machine builders and system integrators wanting to automate their machines and systems in a productive way.

EnergySave Calculator

Calculate how much energy and money you could save by using ABB drives while also deriving other benefits.

DriveAP

DriveAP is a PC based programming tool for creating, documenting, editing, and downloading Adaptive Programs and Multi Block Programming Applications.

Drive Application Programming

Drive Application Buider tool enables drive application programming which creates cutting-edge advantages in your machines, thanks to the built-in PLC functionality of ACS880 drives.

DriveBrowser

Monitoring and tuning low voltage general machinery, standard, and industrial drives over Ethernet network.

Drive Composer

Drive Composer is a startup and maintenance tool for ABB's common architecture drives.

DriveConfig

The DriveConfig kit is a new drive configuration tool for ABB component drives, ACS55, offering fast and safe configuration of unpowered drives.

DriveDebug

DriveDebug is a Windows based diagnostic tool program for devices that use the DDCS communication protocol.

Drive Manager for SIMATIC

Drive Manager for SIMATIC offers useful ready-made features that simplify the setup of ABB LV drives used in combination with SIMATIC S7 PLCs.

DriveMonitor

ABB medium voltage drives are available with DriveMonitor, a monitoring and diagnostics system, allowing secure access from any location in the world.

DrivePM

DrivePM (Drive Parameter Manager) is a PC tool for creating and editing parameter sets of variable speed drives to be suitable for FlashDrop unit.

DriveSPC

DriveSPC (Solution Program Composer) is a Windows-based tool for Solution Programming. It can be used without a drive or with one or more drives.

DriveStudio

DriveStudio is an easy to use software tool designed for use throughout a drive’s life cycle from startup, monitoring, to performance tuning.

DriveWindow

DriveWindow is an easy to use software tool designed to support the drive’s lifecycle from startup and monitoring, to backup, and performance tuning.

DriveWindow Light

DriveWindow Light is an easy to use software tool used throughout the drive’s life cycle for startup, monitoring, and performance tuning.

LV Drives Configurator

Configuration tool to generate type code for LV Single Drives products.

Mint Workbench

Mint Workbench is a Windows GUI for Mint programming and provides an interface for commissioning NextMove, MicroFlex and MotiFlex servo drives.

Drive and Motor Selector

Use the Drive Motor Selector to find the right motor and drive for your project by answering some simple questions.

DriveSize

Use the DriveSize tool to find the optimized motor and drive size for your project.

EcoDesign tool

Use the EcoDesign tool to calculate losses and efficiency for the complete drive module (CDM) and LV motors.

Discover our range of Mobile tools

Mobile tools for easy and fast access to product information, service and support.

ABB Access

Scan the QR code to access 24/7 self-services for ABB drives, motors and PLCs.

ABB Ability™ Mobile Connect for drives

Online platform that provides your customers with drive support from anywhere.

Drivetune

For start-up and tuning of ABB's common architecture drives e.g. ACS580, ACS880.

Drivebase

No longer available and has been replaced by Drivetune.

Services

ABB Motion Services helps you maximize uptime, extend product lifetime, enhance performance and boost energy efficiency of your motors, generators and drives.

Training

Keep your team’s competence up to date to have a strong knowledge of how to manage your assets.

ABB Drives

ABB Drives is a global technology leader serving industries, infrastructure and machine builders with world-class drives, drive systems and packages. We help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers to improve energy efficiency, asset reliability, productivity, safety and performance.

Industries and applications

Portfolio

Low voltage AC drives

Medium voltage AC drives

DC drives and controllers

Connectivity

Software tools

Mobile tools

Motion Services & Training

PLC Automation

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