Global team-play at ABB

ABB Industrial Automation (ABB IA) provides systems for control technology and plant optimization as well as bespoke automation solutions. ABB has 24,500 employees and is active in numerous industrial sectors. The company has installed around 35,000 control systems worldwide. ABB IA relies on Engineering Base to help it speed up project handling and optimize data transfer.

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"Teams from Europe, India and Australia often work simultaneously on the same project. The number of engineering hours saved […] has clearly exceeded our expectations."

Alex Nisbett, Global Project Manager Automation Engineering at ABB IA

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Cooperation and agility for plant control and automation

Plant engineering faces growing challenges. Complex tasks require more cooperation and agility, while traditional tool chains are being pushed to their limits. Scalable system architectures are needed that enable international, multidisciplinary division of tasks and can be flexibly adapted to varying requirements. Engineering Base provides a high-performance solution for these scenarios. It allows all disciplines to work on a single data model in parallel and simultaneously – without any need for error-prone manual data transfers. Changes are displayed consistently across all representations and the platform is also open for integration with other systems, such as (distributed) control systems. Offering maximum scalability and compatibility with cloud computing, Engineering Base provides a modern system architecture for efficient and agile engineering.

"Automation systems are the brain and nervous system of modern plants. With its comprehensive data model, Engineering Base can create seamless connections between different specialist departments in a way that no other digital twin can – from wiring a sensor to programming logic using functional blocks."

Leon Hanke, Product Manager - Plant Automation