ABB: Advocate of Operational Efficiency
Ulrich Spiesshofer, President & CEOA Culture Of Integrity Is A Pre-Requisite For A World-Class Business
Metal and mining industry is often subjected to basic automation and is limited to simple control of motors, equipment or certain parts of processes. These “islands of automation” produce their own data, formats and interfaces, and operators are required to scrutinize a multitude of conceptually disconnected screens to coordinate different parts of the process. This is entire procedure is tremendously tedious and prone to errors—declining the productivity. Amongst all this, ABB is uniquely positioned to bring together industrial enterprise software spanning process control, production management, operational planning and optimization, work and asset management, and back-office corporate functions— from the most remote locations to corporate headquarters.
Ensuring Efficiency
While dealing with mining mineral processing, ABB appoints its engineering expertise with years of knowledge and know-how of electrification and process control in mines. After understanding the needs of the mining companies, the team provides them with integrated products, services and solutions to help optimize their power and productivity, resulting in increased availability and lower lifetime investment costs. In case of open-pit operation, customers use ABB’s control and drive systems to save energy, improve productivity, and enhance system value. The company empowers them with electrification, automation, and control and drive systems for a full range of mining equipment, ranging from bucket-wheel and bucket-chain excavators to spreaders, stackers, reclaimers, crushers, shovels, draglines, belt conveyor systems, and stockpiles. Further, ABB’s experts develop a special drives control library for all mining equipment to enable customers to manage load-sharing of multi-drive applications, ensuring safe operation in all modes.
ABB is one of the best-known providers of complete mine hoists— both mechanical and electrical parts, of all types including friction, single and double drum mine hoists as well as shaft equipment. The company’s mine automation solutions are capable of integrating all process equipment and systems seamlessly with the same view either centrally or locally. With in-depth experience in electrical and automation areas, the company understands that firms’ requirement to manage their open-pit mining and material handling needs. Thereby, ABB walks hand in hand the customers from planning, installation, and commissioning to field-testing and service. Covering the entire production process, the company makes an entire range of solutions available for extraction, transport, and shipping, with an integrated control concept from a single source.
On the other hand, ABB’s unique offering help the metal industry to ensure safe, reliable and efficient operations, with the team’s continuous effort to bring an innovative solution on the clients’ table to help the industry level up. The company’s Electromagnetic Stirring Solutions (EMS) deliver metallurgical improvements to help companies increase productivity, end-product quality, and reduce operating costs—for electric arc furnace and ladle furnace operation, thick and thin slab casting, as well as aluminium furnaces. The company offers the world's most comprehensive range of EMS for both steel and aluminium. To answer the growing demands of the industry to increase productivity product quality, ABB comes up with a fully integrated technology that helps achieve flexible operations, total process supervision, comprehensive reporting and operator guidance.
Functioning in the metal and mining industry for more than four decades at the forefront of digital technologies, ABB is a pioneer in digitally connected and enabled industrial equipment and systems with an installed base of more than 70,000 control systems connecting 70 million devices. “A culture of integrity is a pre-requisite for a world-class business,” concludes Spiesshofer.
On the other hand, ABB’s unique offering help the metal industry to ensure safe, reliable and efficient operations, with the team’s continuous effort to bring an innovative solution on the clients’ table to help the industry level up. The company’s Electromagnetic Stirring Solutions (EMS) deliver metallurgical improvements to help companies increase productivity, end-product quality, and reduce operating costs—for electric arc furnace and ladle furnace operation, thick and thin slab casting, as well as aluminium furnaces. The company offers the world's most comprehensive range of EMS for both steel and aluminium. To answer the growing demands of the industry to increase productivity product quality, ABB comes up with a fully integrated technology that helps achieve flexible operations, total process supervision, comprehensive reporting and operator guidance.
Functioning in the metal and mining industry for more than four decades at the forefront of digital technologies, ABB is a pioneer in digitally connected and enabled industrial equipment and systems with an installed base of more than 70,000 control systems connecting 70 million devices. “A culture of integrity is a pre-requisite for a world-class business,” concludes Spiesshofer.
November 28, 2017
