ABB Automation GmbH

ABB has released 'RoboMasters' - a training app that allows users to flexibly learn how to program and operate ABB robots.

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Marc Segura, Head of the Robotics Division at ABB, outlines three main drivers for robot-assisted AI solutions in 2024, with an increased focus on the crucial role of AI.

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ABB has been working with the Swiss startup Sevensense since 2021 and has now acquired the startup. With this acquisition, ABB is continuing to pursue its vision of supporting people with AI-supported mobile robotics.

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They've earned it: all 96 nominated products from 12 categories in their own e-paper. Browse through the individual areas and make your personal selection. You can also find out more about the companies and their solutions in the accompanying video news.

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B&R Industrie-Elektronik has relocated its German headquarters from Bad Homburg to Friedberg in Hesse, where ABB's Robotics Division in Germany is based.

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ABB Motion offers its customers the opportunity to recycle old electric motors. The company works together with Remondis to do this. Low-carbon recycled metals are then used to produce new motors.

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umati enables networked machines to communicate with each other across manufacturers. The special show "Connected Machines - umati@automatica" shows how this works.

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ABB has launched a Robotics Ecosystem Program. In collaboration with global partners, the program offers end users and system integrators easy access to fully compatible robotics packages, including certified peripherals and software solutions.

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Bertil Thorvaldsson, Senior Advisor at ABB, received the prestigious Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership at the International Symposium on Robotics (ISR) in Munich on June 21, 2022.

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ABB's Ability Edge Industrial Gateway is designed to collect field device and parameter data in smart plants and feed it into a simplified and accessible platform.

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The electrical engineering group ABB recorded double-digit growth in order intake and sales in the 2021 financial year.

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ABB has appointed Jörg Rommelfanger as the new Head of the Robotics division in Germany with effect from January 1, 2022. As Head of the Automotive business line, the 48-year-old will also be responsible for the Robotics division's automotive and supplier business in Germany.

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A touch of anarchy surrounds the most-read articles from October - from data chaos and new standards to an event with no mask requirement at all.

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Particularly high safety requirements apply at the interfaces between humans and robots. However, this is precisely where enormous efficiency potential can be exploited, as the example of the modernization of a 'Kitkat' factory shows.

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ABB Robotics is developing automation solutions with 3D image processing at its new test center in Jönköping. The focus here is on applications such as machine loading and parts feeding.

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Husqvarna relies on ABB's Yumi cobots: The Swedish manufacturer of outdoor power products has recognized the value of automation in improving its competitiveness.

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The updated Ecodesign Regulation came into force on July 1. This specifies new requirements for electric motors and frequency inverters. The documentation is digital.

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ABB will be presenting a wide range of robotics and digitalization solutions at this year's Automatica sprint, which will take place completely virtually from 22 to 24 June 2021.

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The 2021 'Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation' (IERA) goes to ABB with 'PixelPaint'. This technology makes vehicle painting more efficient and sustainable.

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The 2021 "Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation" (IERA) goes to ABB with PixelPaint.

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To ensure that production systems can be put into operation quickly and without errors, the robot controller and PLC must harmonize smoothly. Virtual commissioning saves time and costs.

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Andrea Alboni, Martin Kullmann and Alexander Mühlens have been newly appointed to the VDMA Robotics Board.

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Robots are becoming increasingly easy to operate and program. What is behind this and how complex is the integration into production lines? Andreas Mühlbauer spoke to Jörg Reger, Head of ABB's Robotics division in Germany.

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The VDMA Robotics Executive Board has appointed three new board members.

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ABB is expanding its portfolio of collaborative robots (cobots) with the 'GoFa' and 'Swifti' cobot families, which offer higher payloads and speeds.

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ABB is expanding its portfolio of collaborative robots (cobots) with the 'GoFa' and 'Swifti' cobot families, which offer higher payloads and speeds.

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On April 1, 2021, Jörg Theis will take over the management of B&R, ABB's Machine Automation division. He takes over from Clemens Sager, who has headed the division ad interim since January 1, 2021.

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Steven Wyatt will support Kawasaki Robotics' growth plans in the EMEA region. Previously, Wyatt was President of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and held a senior position at ABB.

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A new interior painting station is designed to reduce space requirements by up to 33 percent. It is equipped with twelve robots.

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ABB's Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) service enables robot users to create a preventive maintenance plan for individual robots or robot fleets based on real-time operating data.

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The healthcare sector has never been in the spotlight as much as it is now. The latest robotic solutions help to support specialist staff and make a contribution when it comes to optimizing quality, capacity utilization and operating costs.

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Jörg Reger has been appointed Head of the global Auto OEM business line of ABB's Robotics division. He succeeds Michael Larsson, who is leaving ABB to pursue new professional challenges.

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Setting up transparent status monitoring for electric drives usually involves a lot of effort. In addition, the secure connection through the local network is often a hurdle. But what if you could simply monitor your inverters in the cloud via mobile communications?

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ABB and IBM are working together on cybersecurity. In future, ABB process control systems will be able to connect to the IBM security platform. This will make it easier to detect digital threats.

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Cleanrooms place high demands on mechanical components, which makes them challenging to automate. The IRB 1100 robot from ABB rises to the challenge.

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ABB is expanding its robot offering for cleanroom manufacturing environments that require a high degree of flexibility and performance. The new ISO 14644-1 certified cleanroom version of the IRB 1100 combines fast performance in a compact design for industries such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, electronics, semiconductor and solar panel manufacturing.

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Deciding whether and how a robot fits into a particular process has never been easier with an augmented reality tool. ABB is now presenting a corresponding ARViewer.

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A robot helps with the production of respiratory masks. The result: faster production with increased quality.

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A scalable inspection cell for quality control speeds up production, improves quality and reduces waste in the automotive, aerospace, heavy engineering and construction industries.

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ABB and Covariant, an AI start-up from Silicon Valley, are working together to develop AI robotics solutions. The first solution is an autonomous gripper application for order processing in logistics centers

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ABB expands Service Ability Condition Monitoring for the powertrain that connects drives, motors, pumps and bearings with an option for condition-based maintenance of drives.

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Without drive technology - in the truest sense of the word - nothing would turn in most machines and systems. Computer&AUTOMATION presents the latest innovations in this automation discipline in a series of pictures.

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The Board of Directors of ABB has unanimously appointed Björn Rosengren as Chief Executive Officer. He will join ABB on February 1, 2020 and succeed CEO Peter Voser in this role on March 1, 2020.

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After a two-year planning and construction phase, ABB has presented its first CO2-neutral site in Germany to the public. As a visible sign of this, a solar power plant officially went into operation at the subsidiary Busch-Jaeger in Lüdenscheid on May 8.

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According to the company, the German ABB performed very well in terms of order intake and sales in the 2018 financial year. The company benefited in particular from business development in the areas of robotics and drives as well as industrial automation.

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ABB announced today that CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer (55) is stepping down from the position he has held since 2013. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Peter Voser (61), will also assume the position of interim CEO with immediate effect.

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ABB is adapting its smart sensor technology, which is already used to monitor the condition of low-voltage motors and pumps, to pillow block bearings. The aim is to avoid unscheduled downtimes and extend the service life of systems.

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The ABB Group intends to focus its portfolio on digital industries in future and is selling its power grids business to Hitachi as part of this. A new corporate structure will also take effect from April 2019.

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What role will the Ethernet standard TSN play in the future activities of the OPC Foundation? The OPC Foundation provided answers to this question at a press conference at SPS IPC Drives.

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ABB is investing 150 million US dollars in the construction of what it claims to be the world's most advanced, most automated and most flexible robot factory in Shanghai. In the future, it will play a key role in ABB's global robotics supply system.

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