ABB Ability™ Connected Worker

Enhance safety and increase operational efficiency by digitalizing your field procedures

ABB Ability™ Connected Worker

Take your field procedures digital

As a company operating in the energy or process industry, you are likely considering how to further advance digitalization to improve efficiencies and gain competitive advantage. However, you’re also likely facing an obstacle on your journey to digital transformation—how to minimize the risk of human error in situations where paper-based operating and maintenance procedures are common.

Your solution? By digitalizing activities ranging from daily rounds to checklists, from inspections to complex operational procedures, you reduce the likelihood of human error, enhance workflow efficiency, and create safer workplaces—while increasing their profit potential.

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ABB Ability™ Connected Worker

Which batches are faulty? Do you have a quality issue or a cycle time issue? When did the error occur? What are the best practices to ensure quality production? When it comes to ensuring consistent quality in process operations, there are a number of challenges.

ABB Ability™ Connected Worker digitalizes the field operator experience when executing manual procedures, rounds, work instructions and checklists. ABB Ability™ Connected Worker uses state-of the-art technologies to improve efficiencies and reduce human error.

ABB Ability™ Connected Worker solves your common challenges of doing things the traditional, paper- based way:

  • Procedures and checklists are not readily accessible
  • Lack real-time information status and visibility
  • Impractical given real-world circumstances
  • Duplicate data entry and manual data errors
  • Not supporting collaboration across the operation
  • Variations and non conformance are not systematically captured
  • Continuous improvement is limited

People and procedures

From daily rounds, checklists and inspections to complex operational procedures, ABB Ability™ Connected Worker helps your people perform critical, manual work across your plant more effectively and safely
Operations
  • Regular plant and shift walk through
  • Shutdowns, startup and changeover
  • Material transfer, pipeline lineup, loading and offloading
  • Managing abnormal events
Quality
  • In process quality control and assurance
  • Visual inspections and manual data collection
  • Validation & verifications
Maintenance
  • Routine inspections/rounds
  • Repairs and tests
  • Equipment preparation, recommissioning
  • Calibrations
Environmental & Safety
  • Environmental compliance rounds
  • Safety observations rounds

Connected Worker Application Suite

Mobile App

  • Guides and assists users step by step through workflows and records execution details
  • Enables accessible and up-to-date information on procedures and supporting details
  • Guides manual inputs and trigger actions
  • Comments & photo capture
  • Manual and automatic data capture
  • Work online or offline
  • Voice synthesis & Intelligence Knowledge Assistant (IKA)

HoloLens App

  • Guides and assists the user step by step through workflows and records execution details
  • Enables accessible and up-to-date information on procedures and supporting information
  • Guides manual inputs and trigger actions
  • Comment and capture photos
  • Manual and automatic data capture
  • Field data is visible in the augmented context of the physical area in view

Procedure Manager

  • Drag & drop (no coding required), procedure builder
  • Manages complex workflows including conditional logic and parallel tasks
  • Includes rich instruction by adding images, documents and additional information

Integrated Task Manager

  • Schedule and track jobs using Kanban as a work management method to help visualize work and maximize efficiency
  • Manually or automatically assign tasks to groups/ individuals
  • Define date and time or recurring time for repeating jobs at specified intervals
  • Automatically schedule jobs based on triggering from other systems or devices, e.g., ERP, DCS, and PLC

ABB Ability™ Connected Worker apps

Benefits

Enhanced safety, improved efficiency, greater field/operations collaboration, and more

Common use cases

Mobile assisted execution of rounds, checklists and procedures
Execute workflows, collaborate using Android, iOS, Windows device

Work instruction and procedure management
Define workflows and supporting information for assisted execution

Capture tribal knowledge
Engage users in continuous improvement of SOPs and experience sharing

Expert insights

Practical how-to guides and demos
Bridging the industry knowledge skills gap ...and the unexpected

Enable industrial workforce to quickly learn new skills and apply them
Video
Introducing connected worker software

Benefits of executing procedures with a mobile device / AR and seamlessly integrating field work with the distributed control system
Webinar recording by Matilda Steiner-Arvidsson
The future of work and safety with AR

How to offer complete visibility and connection between the operator in the field and the control room - improving safety and efficiency
Video by Raymond Liau
Paperless maintenance procedures

A brief overview about mobile assisted execution of maintenance procedures with real-time connectivity to a back-end server
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Augmented Field Procedures Brochure

Download today to learn how our technology can help your field engineers increase safety and improve performance
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Augmented Field Procedures Presentation

Learn how this solution can help make field procedures mobile, augmented and integrated
Press Release
ABB launches ABB Ability™ Augmented Field Procedures to drive worker safety and efficiency across the energy sector

Learn more here
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ABB Ability™ Integrated Task Manager

Coordinate, execute and track daily operations tasks across all disciplines
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The engineering workforce: adjusting to change

Jonas Trautmann was interviewed by Control Engineering Europe, focusing on the changing workforce.
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