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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.

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Applications

→ Compressors and blowers

→ Cooling tower

→ Cranes and hoists

→ Potentially explosive atmospheres

→ Solar pumps

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Welcome to the future of machine building together with ABB

Machine builders are the backbone of countless industries, creating cutting-edge equipment and systems that fuel innovation and productivity. At ABB, our domain expertise and portfolio, including AC drives, PLCs, motors, engineering tools and support, ensure efficiency, reliability and safety when building quality machines. We help simplify the selection, engineering and commissioning of machines, saving time and reducing costs.

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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.

Functional safety

ABB offers various safety devices and tools for designing safer machines and processes that utilize 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 GoSelect

A web-based selection and dimensioning tool for motors, drives, and PLCs. Build the optimal solution for your application and efficiently create,
collect, and manage documentation and reports – all in one place.

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.

EnergySave Calculator

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

EcoDesign tool

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

LV Drives Configurator

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

DriveConfig

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

Drive Composer

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

Drive Application Builder

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

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.

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.

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.

Mint Workbench

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

DriveDebug

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

DriveAP

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

DriveBrowser

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

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.

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.

DriveMonitor (obsolete)

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

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.

Highlights and references

APUEA Magazine, September 2024

Energy efficiency: Accelerating Asia's shift to net zero

Video, September 2024

ABB General Purpose Drives | Greetings from the Helsinki factory

Customer story, September 2024

Electric ovens: pushing green baking for a low-carbon future

Web story, August 2024

ABB IE5 SynRM motors and drives help GSK vaccine plant reach net zero

HPAC Engineering, August 2024

Ensuring continuous operations in sensitive lab environments

Thought leadership, August 2024

Sustainable solar pumping: how drives put the sun to work

Farming News, August 2024

Cutting costs and emissions on the farm: Energy-efficient manure drying

HVAC Informed, June 2024

Improving hospital air quality with advanced variable speed drives

Customer story, June 2024

Close collaboration between Advansor and ABB ensures energy-efficiency and reduction of waste

Heat Pumps Today, June 2024

From planning to power: ensuring grid stability in district heating projects

Customer story, June 2024

MPS is making egg farming more sustainable, supported by ABB's drives technology

Web story, June 2024

Connectivity Edge Gateway receives Red Dot Award for product design

Sugar Industry International, June 2024

How drives and motors can optimize sugar production and increase energy efficiency

Customer story, June 2024

Lifting energy efficiency to new levels in sewage treatment with ABB drives and motors

Datacentre Solutions, June 2024

Data center cooling: it’s time for sustainable solutions

Customer story, May 2024

Egypt’s New Administrative Capital trusts ABB’s ultra-low harmonic drives to keep its crucial HVACR systems working well

Process and Control Today, May 2024

Industry must double down on circularity

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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.

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Welcome to the future of machine building together with ABB

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