ABB is a Canadian company that leads in automation and power technologies which enable industry and utility customers to better their performance while reducing their environmental impact. Technology plays a major role in the success of the company.
ABB is focused on balancing environmental, economical, and social objectives and incorporates them into day-to-day business decisions. In its 120 years I operations, it is now in around 100 countries and has around 135,000 employees.
Integrity is the key value that drives the company to reach greater heights. In their daily operations, they follow three fundamentals; prevent, detect, and resolve. That helps them deal with any internal or external problems.
Business Divisions
ABB works in 4 major divisions to deliver their increased productivity and sustainability globally.
Electrification
This division helps write the future of smart, safe, and sustainable electrification. This division provides numerous digital solutions, products, and services from the electrical substation to their clients’ sockets.
Some of the things they offer include connected and digital innovations for medium and low-voltage like modular substations, solar inverters, power protection, distribution automation, switchgear, wiring accessories, cabling sensing and control, and enclosures.
They also provide services that ensure clients’ product performance and increase their lifespan.
Process automation
This business division works closely with its global customers in ensuring safe and smart future operations. This business division provides diverse solutions and products for hybrid and process industries.
Some of these solutions include digital and electrification solutions, industry-specific integrated automation, software, and advanced services, control technologies. They also have turbocharging and marine plus analytics and measurement offerings.
Those solutions and products help the industries in automation, instrumentation, and optimizing industrial processes.
Robotics and discrete automation
ABB works in this business division to write a future of smart machines and flexible manufacturing. This business helps them offer their customers value-added solutions in factory and machine automation plus robotics.
Their application expertise across a diverse range of industries, integrated automation solutions, and global presence offer tangible customer value. Their focus on innovation incorporates elaborate work in the artificial intelligence field, expansion of their research and production capabilities, and an ecosystem with digital partnerships.
They intend to do that using their $150 million investment in Shanghai in their new world-class robotics factory.
Motion
ABB’s motion business division is currently the largest supplier of motors and drives worldwide. They work using their latest technology to write a future of smart motion globally. They offer their customers a wide range of generators, electrical motors, and drives.
They also provide solutions for integrated powertrain and mechanical power transmission.
