ABB Xiamen Low Voltage Equipment Co., Ltd. celebrates its 25th anniversary

• 25 years of development, driving the economic growth of Xiamen and surrounding regions
• Advanced ERP system and leading automated production lines create a digital factory

ABB Xiamen Low Voltage Equipment Co., Ltd. (ABB Xiamen Low Voltage factory) celebrated its 25th anniversary with the theme ‘Let’s write the future. Together’. James Zhao, lead business manager of ABB Electrification in China, Giampiero Frisio, Head of ABB Smart Power, Marco Tellarini, Head of Global Product Group Air Insulated Medium Voltage and Low Voltage Switchgear, attended the ceremony with more than 200 guests including top officials from Xiamen Municipal Government, and customers and partners from all over the country. They celebrated the company’s development along with its local community and its achievements at becoming a manufacturing benchmark in electrification in China.

James Zhao, lead business manager of ABB Electrification in China, said: “ABB aims to transform and grow with China’s economy, and our growth in China and Xiamen is rooted in the development of the local economy. The 25-year history of ABB Xiamen Low Voltage factory is the embodiment of ABB’s vision to support the local economy of Xiamen and to be actively involved in China’s economic development. By leveraging the ABB Xiamen Hub and applying the strategy ‘In China, for China and the world’, ABB will continue to deepen its localization strategies and create more value for its partners and customers.”

The ABB Xiamen Low Voltage factory was established in 1994 and is a part of the ABB Electrification business in China. It is the only manufacturing base for MNS® low-voltage switchgear and Emax 2 air circuit breaker in China and is one of the world’s largest producers of low-voltage equipment. At the end of 2018, ABB Xiamen Low Voltage Equipment Co., Ltd. moved into the ABB Xiamen Hub, an innovation and manufacturing hub with a total investment of approximately $300 million, to improve its productivity, its core competences, and become a world-class factory.

ABB Xiamen Low Voltage factory is an example of a production facility evolving into a digital factory. The company has introduced many advanced systems to integrate and co-ordinate elements including sales, project management, sourcing, production, quality, after sales service, controlling, human resources, etc., to ensure a holistic approach to the business. The data driven seamless coordination of operations with advanced production lines, equipped with robots and radio frequency identification technology (RFID), have improved production capacity and quality and speeded up manufacturing processes, which has helped ensured on-time delivery and short lead times.

Innovation is the key to keeping ABB ahead in a competitive market. ABB Xiamen Low Voltage factory has established a local R&D center for MNS low-voltage switchgear and air circuit breakers with more than 700 experts and specialists, supported by ABB’s leading products and technologies, significantly improving its local R&D capabilities.

At the event, ABB unveiled four new products, including the PCS100 AVC active voltage conditioner, ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for electrical systems (CMES), the upgraded Emax 2 low-voltage breaker and Emax 2 / E9 air circuit breaker, to help customers build a stable and smart power distribution system, and realize equipment interconnections, energy efficiency improvements, as well as predictive maintenance.

With deep industry expertise and leading digital technologies, ABB Xiamen Low Voltage Equipment Co., Ltd. provides one-stop solutions and life-cycle services for customers in power, industry, transport and infrastructure. In the field of power, ABB is leading in digital technologies to improve distribution reliability and power quality for utilities, wind and solar customers. In the industrial field, the company guarantees the continuous and stable operation of industrial electricity and is participating in the CNOOC Huizhou refining and chemical project, currently the largest petrochemical project under construction in China, and provides products for PetroChina, Sinopec and Shenhua. In transport and infrastructure, it has provided more than 10,000 panels of MNS3.0 low-voltage switchgear for major rail transit projects nationwide, including the Beijing Subway, Guangzhou Metro, Shenzhen Metro, Xiamen Metro, Xi'an Metro, Wuhan Metro, etc.; and has helped to build data centers for the Jinqiao Technology Center of Shanghai Stock Exchange, the GDS Data Center, etc. At the same time, with strong engineering capabilities and a global service network, the company has provided solutions and services to customers in more than 30 countries and regions.

After 25 years of development and growth, the ABB Xiamen Low Voltage factory continues to innovate and evolve, enhancing its core competitiveness and winning awards, including: the ‘China Quality and Integrity Enterprise’; ‘National Advanced Enterprise for Implementation of Performance Excellence Model’; ‘Fujian Provincial Government Quality Award’; ‘100 Key Enterprises in Fujian Province’; ‘Fujian Provincial Enterprise Technology Center’; ‘Xiamen Municipal Government Quality Award’ and ‘Top Ten Industrial Enterprises in Xiamen’. Furthermore, the factory has been firmly ranked as one of the ‘Top 100 Enterprises in China’s Electrical Industry’ for more than 10 consecutive years. In the new era of digitalization, the company will build on its 25-year history to become a state-of-the-art digital factory, renowned for its operational excellence and development of innovative digital solutions to ensure smart and reliable power availability for cities.