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ABB Ability™ Industrial Software for Connected Workforce
Empowering Workers. Connecting Operations. Digitize, monitor, and optimize your workforce – from the field to the control room.

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If you are looking to ensure safer working environment and continuity of operation:
  • reduce unscheduled downtime and environmental impact caused by human errors
  • minimize the need for the employees to go into potentially risky situations, avoiding injuries
  • protect expertise, capture tribal knowledge and speed up new employee on-boarding
  • enhance data visibility, collaboration and establish consistency no matter the personnel
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Our offering

Make a step change in improving workforce safety, competency and knowledge retention

by solution type
by industry
Connected-Worker-apps
Connected Worker apps
  • Digital instructions and workflows on smartphones, tablets, HoloLens
  • Mobile digital procedure management
  • Integrated task management
Remote-Visual-Support
Visual Remote Support
  • Live, interactive human-to-human support, Augmented Reality (AR)
  • Remote expert assistance
  • Remote FAT
  • Remote training
Industrial-Knowledge-Vault
Industrial Knowledge Vault
  • Capture tribal knowledge of your workforce
  • Create step-by-step procedures quickly
  • Empower workforce with proven best practices
  • Securely access data anytime
Simulator
Control System Simulator
  • Train operators on plant operation, start-up, shutdown, response on malfunction, emergencies and safety in a 100% realistic environment
  • Verify / tune control logic

Battery Manufacturing
Battery Manufacturing A rapidly growing industry with high ambitions for smart manufacturing
Cement manufacturing
Cement manufacturing From quarry to dispatch
Data Centers
Data Centers Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), power monitoring and energy management
Energy industries
Energy industries Oil & gas, power generation, water utiliries
Food and Beverage
Food and Beverage Sustainable and efficient food production from farm to fork
Marine
Marine For a single vessel or a whole fleet of vessels
Metals
Metals Primary metals, aluminium & steel plants, hot rolling, cold rolling, processing lines
Mining
Mining Extraction, processing, raw material delivery, equipment maintenance, personnel
Life sciences
Life sciences Full scope solutions according to the GAMP5 guideline, FDA (21 CFR part 11)
Pulp and paper
Pulp and paper From pulping to papermaking
Specialty chemicals
Specialty chemicals Perfume, soap, paints, ink, pigments, agro chemistry, other specialty chemicals

Expert Insights

ABB-Ability™-Industrial-Knowledge-Vault
Press Release
ABB Launches ABB Ability Industrial Knowledge Vault
IROC blog 2
Blog by Eduardo Lima - part 2
Remote Operations Centers: from vision to implementation
Following a procedure on mobile app
Practical how-to guides and demos
Bridging the industry knowledge skills gap ...and the unexpected
ROC solution dimensions
Blog by Eduardo Lima - part 1
10 Lessons from 10 Years of Remote Operations Centers
AR
Blog by Tyron Vardy
AR in manufacturing: virtually impossible to ignore
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By ABB Corporate Research
Augmented Operator and AI capabilities for oil platforms
eMine video 5
By Roze Wesby, Canadian Mining Journal
The mining workforce of the future
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By William Dannelly, Paper 360 magazine
The impact of digitalization on pulp & paper workforce
Marine Vision
ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot Vision
Situational awareness: why guess what’s out there?
5G manufacturing
ABB Review
5G for digital industries
Collaboration Room 390 x 195
Control room design and operator health
Human factors and ergonomics in manufacturing
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By David Lincoln
AR set to take maintenance to new heights
Talking to the future
Control room in the year 2025
Talking to the future
Digital Lighthouse
by ABB Review
The digital Lighthouse: igniting trans­­formation

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