ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations for metals industry

 

 

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Optimize metals plant performance with ABB's advanced digital services that integrate remote monitoring, IoT infrastructure, analytics and human insight into your daily operations.

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A new way of leveraging our collective strengths

What kind of information, expertise and actionable insights do you need in order to run your operations at maximum efficiency? Dedicated ABB Collaborative Operations Centers for metals allow you to leverage both your data and tap into over a century of ABB process knowledge. You can optimize performance by connecting your mill and plant operators, engineers and headquarters with ABB experts in metals-specific processes, automation and electrification 24/7/365.
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ABB Ability™ collaborative services for metals

Quality & productivity

Profile rolling

Cold rolling

Availability

Predictive maintenance

Drives remote monitoring

Cyber security

Performance optimization

Control loops

How does it work?

Customers collect asset and operational data from device to enterprise. ABB experts continuously monitor and analyze this data remotely from ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations Centers and connect with customers in real-time to support in identifying, preventing and resolving issues that can impact negatively on operations.

At ABB we believe a more collaborative approach is the way forward to improve system performance and optimize availability, yield, quality, productivity and profitability across the value chain.

Key benefits:
  • Increased asset availability
  • Accelerated problem resolution
  • Increased productivity
  • Higher production quality
  • Reduced need for onsite visits by experts

Other performance services for metals


Profile mill fingerprint

Cold rolling mill fingerprint

Condition monitoring for conveyor belts

Performance optimization for control systems

References

ABB data analytics and expert support help identify shear abnormality, improve profile rolling mill pacing time and more
ABB drives remote support prevented likely stoppage of coke production
European steel mill mitigates risk with ABB Ability™ cyber security services
Improving thickness tolerances for a two-stand aluminium cold rolling mill with additional control loops

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Remote solutions to support metals operations

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Partner with ABB to accelerate your digital transformation journey

Getting to the stage where a plant can gain maximum results from digitalization demands planning a business relevant and executable path
Digital transformation in metals
Why ABB?
  • Experienced provider OT and IT stack
  • Third party and legacy integration
  • Domain knowledge and metals industry knowledge
  • Efficient transformation projects, focus on ROI
  • New tools such as cloud, analytics
  • Development model with partners to jointly develop solutions

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